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November 19, 1983 |
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Joanne Tucker |
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San Diego, California |
Adam Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in the supporting role of Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession in 2010. In 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar.
Adam Driver has played supporting roles in a wide range of films, including Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and Silence (2016). He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Hungry Hearts (2014); he also received several accolades for his lead performance in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson (2016). In 2018, Adam Driver received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performance in the film BlacKkKlansman (2018). He also received Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nominations for his performance in the film Marriage Story (2019).
Adam Driver gained mainstream recognition and acclaim for playing the main antagonist Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, first in The Force Awakens (2015), followed by The Last Jedi (2017), and his latest reprisal in The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Adam Driver is the co-founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that brings high-quality arts programming to active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff and their families around the world free of charge. He founded it with his wife Joanne Tucker in 2006.