Adam Driver

Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. His breakout performance as an emotionally unstable actor in the HBO television series ''Girls'' (2012–2017) earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver made his film debut in ''J. Edgar'' (2011) and played supporting roles in ''Lincoln'' (2012), ''Frances Ha'' (2012), ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' (2013) and ''While We're Young'' (2014) before gaining wider recognition for his portrayal of Kylo Ren in the ''Star Wars'' sequel trilogy (2015–2019).

He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for a leading role in ''Hungry Hearts'' (2014) and received consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for playing a Jewish police officer infiltrating the KKK in ''BlacKkKlansman'' (2018) and Best Actor for his role as a theater director going through a divorce in ''Marriage Story'' (2019). 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).

On stage, Driver made his Broadway debut in ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' (2010) and subsequently acted in ''Man and Boy'' (2011) and ''Burn This'' (2019), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

Driver is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He also was the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that provided free arts programming to American active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff, and their families worldwide. Provided by Wikipedia