The Cast Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Before They Were Famous)

Go back to a not too long time ago in a ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ galaxy not really all that far away.
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Adam Driver used to be in Marines
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John Boyega started his career a stock photography model
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Oscar Issac was in a childhood band called “The Worms” in Miami.
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Daisy Ridley attended the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts
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Simon Pegg was a member of the comedy troupe “David Icke and the Orphans of Jesus” and England’s #1 Star Wars fan
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Carrie Fisher  made her film debut in the 1975 comedy ‘Shampoo’ starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn.
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Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter. You know… like Jesus.
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Mark Hamill majored in drama at Los Angeles City College and made his acting debut on The Bill Cosby Show in 1969
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Peter Mayhew started as a hospital orderly in London.
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Gwendoline Christie trained as a gymnast as a child, but after a spine injury forced her to abandon that career, she took up acting.
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Lupita Nyong’o won the title of Señorita México (Miss Mexico) in September, 1990.
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Domhnall Gleeson was born in Dublin, Ireland, the oldest son of actor Brendan Gleeson, and his wife, Mary Gleeson.
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Before he became the star of The Force Awakens, BB-8 was reportedly a used soccer ball in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.