Was Adam Driver of Star Wars a Marine?

Is it true that Adam Driver, who starred in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was a Marine?

—Gail M., Colorado Springs, Colorado

Indeed. Adam Driver, 33, currently getting kudos for his starring role in Paterson, playing a poetry-writing bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, served in the Marine Corps from 2001 to 2004. He continues his connection with the military through the nonprofit Arts in the Armed Forces, which he started while attending Juilliard. “We pick contemporary American plays to perform on military bases and for veterans,” he says. “We get actors to volunteer their time, we set up music stands onstage and read plays.”