Adam Driver

Adam Douglas Driver born November 19 1983 is an American actor His breakout performance as Adam Sackler in the HBO television series Girls20122017 earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations Driver played supporting roles in Lincoln 2012 Frances Ha 2012 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 and While Were Young 2014 before gaining more extensive recognition for his portrayal of Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy 20152019 He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for a leading role in Hungry Hearts 2014 He received consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Detective Philip Flip Zimmerman in BlacKkKlansman 2018 as well as Best Actor for his role as Charlie Barber 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 Annette2021 House of Gucci 2021 and Megalopolis 2024 On stage Driver made his Broadway debut in the George Bernard Shaw play Mrs Warrens Profession 2010 and subsequently acted in the dramas 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 He also earned praise for playing a country music singer in the offBroadway revival of the Kenneth Lonergan play Hold On to Me Darling 2024 Driver is a veteran of the US Marine Corps He helped start Arts in the Armed Forces a nonprofit arts group for military communities The nonprofit provided arts programming to military communities until dissolving in 2023 Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia