Adam Driver
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Biography
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.
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Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Law & Order
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Simpsons
Bob's Burgers
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
LEGO Star Wars : The Resistance Rises
Lincoln
The Force of Sound
The Director and the Jedi
J. Edgar
Girls
Gayby
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
A Goodbye to Girls
Balance of the Force
This Is Where I Leave You
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Frances Ha
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
The Skywalker Legacy
The Last Duel
BlacKkKlansman
Silence
Logan Lucky
The Dead Don't Die
House of Gucci
65
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Megalopolis
Paterson
Annette
The Report
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Marriage Story
Ferrari
White Noise
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