Adam Driver
Born: 1983-11-19 in San Diego, California, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Father Mother Sister Brother as Jeff
- In Whose Name? as Self
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- Mr. Scorsese ... (Thanks)
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- Megadoc as Self
2024
- Megalopolis as Cesar Catilina
- It's Not Me as (archive footage)
2022
- White Noise as Jack Gladney
- Mostra, Venise as Self
- Everyday Portabella
2021
- The Last Duel as Jacques Le Gris
- House of Gucci as Maurizio Gucci
- The Sparks Brothers as Self (uncredited)
- The Making of the Last Duel as Self
- Annette as Henry McHenry
- Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus as Self
2020
- The Skywalker Legacy as Self
- The Making of "Marriage Story" as Self
2019
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Kylo Ren / Ben Solo
- Marriage Story as Charlie Barber
- The Dead Don't Die as Officer Ronnie Peterson
- The Report as Daniel Jones
- He Dreams of Giants as Himself
- Marriage Story: From the Pages to the Performances as Self
- Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People as Narrator (voice)
2018
- BlacKkKlansman as Flip Zimmerman
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Toby
- The Force of Sound as Ben Solo / Kylo Ren (archive footage)
- The Director and the Jedi as Self
- Balance of the Force as Self
2017
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Kylo Ren
- Logan Lucky as Clyde Logan
- Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) as Randy
- A Goodbye to Girls as Self
2016
- Silence as Garupe
- Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey as Self
- Midnight Special as Agent Sevier
- Paterson as Paterson
- LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises as Kylo Ren (voice)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Kylo Ren / Ben Solo
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Star Wars: Greatest Moments as Self
- Hungry Hearts as Jude
- While We're Young as Jamie Massey
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Bluebird as Walter
- This Is Where I Leave You as Phillip Altman
2013
- The River as Joe
- Inside Llewyn Davis as Al Cody
- Picasso Baby as Self
- Frances Ha as Lev Shapiro
- Best Friends as Narrator (voice)
- What If as Allan
- Tracks as Rick Smolan
2012
- Girls as Adam Sackler
- Lincoln as Samuel Beckwith
- Gayby as Neil
- Not Waving but Drowning as Adam
2011
- Bob's Burgers as Art the Artist (voice)
- J. Edgar as Walter Lyle
- The Basement as Adam
- I'm Coming Over as Evan
- Sweet Nothings as Adam
2010
- Goldstar, Ohio as Jared Rock
- You Don't Know Jack as Glen Stetson
- Archangel as Man
2009
- The Unusuals as Will Slansky
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jason Roberts
1990
- Law & Order as Robby Vickery
1989
- The Simpsons as Adam Sackler (voice)
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self