Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls. He gained wider recognition for playing Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Driver is the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces.
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Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls. Driver won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his lead role in Hungry Hearts and starred as a poet in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson. He gained wider recognition for playing Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. In 2019, he returned to theater with Burn This, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best actor in a Play. Driver is the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that provides free arts programming to American active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff, and their families around the world. He is the son of Nancy Wright, a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver. Driver has Dutch, English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. His father’s family is from Arkansas and his mother’s family is from Indiana. His stepfather, Rodney G. Wright, is a minister at a Baptist church. He has a daughter, Joanne Tucker, and a son, Adam Douglas Driver, Jr., who was born on November 19, 1983, in San Diego, California.
He was raised Baptist, and sang in the choir at church. After high school, he worked as a door-to-door salesman selling Kirby vacuum cleaners and as a telemarketer for a basement waterproofing company and Ben Franklin Construction. His first television role was in the final episode of The Unusuals, as a repentant witness and reluctant accomplice to an unsolved assault. He made his film debut in Clint Eastwood’s biographical drama film J. Edgar Edgar. In 2012, Driver was cast in the comedy series Girls, as the emotionally unstable Adam Sackler, the boyfriend of the lead character Horvath. He received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for a Comedy Series for Outstanding Supporting Actor in his role. In 2013, Driver appeared in the critically acclaimed Lincoln, Samuel Beckwith’s Lincoln, and Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha. He also appeared in Bluebird in 2013, winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Featured Actor in a play. In 2014, Driver played Cliff in the romantic drama What If?
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