Adam Driver

Known for ActingBorn 1983-11-19 (age 42)San Diego, California, USA

Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Martin Scorsese has called Driver "one of the finest, if not the finest" actors of his generation. Driver made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession (2010) and subsequently appeared in Man and Boy (2011). He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver began his film career in supporting roles in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012), and the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his lead role in the drama Hungry Hearts (2014) and starred as a poet in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson (2016), the missionary in Scorsese's religious epic Silence (2016), and Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky (2017). Driver gained wider recognition for playing Ben Solo / Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). In 2019, he returned to theater in the Broadway revival of Burn This, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He garnered consecutive Academy Award nominations; Best Supporting Actor for Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018), and Best Actor for Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story (2019). In 2021, he starred in the musical Annette and two films directed by Ridley Scott, the medieval drama The Last Duel and the crime drama House of Gucci. Driver is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that provides free arts programming to American active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff, and their families worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Making of "Marriage Story"

The Making of the Last Duel

Picasso Baby

The River

Marriage Story: From the Pages to the Performances

The Force of Sound

Mr. Scorsese

Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

The Skywalker Legacy

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Marriage Story

Bob's Burgers

The Simpsons

Paper Tiger

BlacKkKlansman

The Last Duel

The Sparks Brothers

In Whose Name?

The Unusuals

Frances Ha

The Director and the Jedi

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

It's Not Me

Inside Llewyn Davis

Conan

Silence

Paterson

The Graham Norton Show

Star Wars: Greatest Moments

The Report

Law & Order

Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey

Balance of the Force

You Don't Know Jack

Tracks

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Megadoc

Lincoln

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Logan Lucky

Annette

What If

House of Gucci

This Is Where I Leave You

Saturday Night Live