Adam Driver

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 Warrens Profession 2010 and subsequently appeared in Man and Boy 2011 He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedydrama series Girls 20122017 for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations Driver began his film career in supporting roles in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln 2012 Noah Baumbachs 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 Jarmuschs Paterson 2016 the missionary in Scorseses religious epic Silence 2016 and Steven Soderberghs heist comedy Logan Lucky 2017 Driver gained wider recognition for playing Ben Solo Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy 20152019 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 Lees BlacKkKlansman 2018 and Best Actor for Noah Baumbachs 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 US Marine Corps He is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces a nonprofit that provides free arts programming to American activeduty service members veterans military support staff and their families worldwide Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia