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ADAM DRIVER

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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 Gui...

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BORN November 19, 1983

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HEIGHT 5'10" (1.78 m)

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NATIONALITY American

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YEARS ACTIVE 2009 – Present

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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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Nick Name Adam
Born November 19, 1983
Height 5'10" (1.78 m)
Nationality American
Citizenship American
Education Juilliard School (BFA)
Current Status Active (Recently in Megalopolis, Father Mother Sister Brother)
Years Active 2009 – Present
Occupation Actor
Family Background Driver garnered further acclaim for portraying the titular character in ''Paterson'' (2016), Father Francisco Garupe in ''Silence'' (2016), Jacques le Gris in ''The Last Duel'' (2021), and Enzo Ferrari in ''Ferrari'' (2023). He has also acted in films such as ''Logan Lucky'' (2017), ''The Report'' (2019), ''Annette'' (2021), ''House of Gucci'' (2021), and ''Megalopolis'' (2024).
Early Career On stage, Driver made his Broadway debut in the George Bernard Shaw play ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' (2010) and subsequently acted in the dramas ''Man and Boy'' (2011) and ''Burn This'' (2019), the latter earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He also earned praise for playing a country music singer in the off-Broadway revival of the Kenneth Lonergan play ''Hold On to Me Darling'' (2024).
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