Adam Driver is a famous American actor. He became popular through his supporting role in the HBO series Girls.
He has many successful movies under his belt and he is bound to earn his second Oscar nomination for his role in Marriage Story.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the actor!
- His full name is Adam Douglas Driver
- He was born on November 19, 1983
- He is an American actor
- He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017)
- For the he received three consecutive Emmy nominations
- He gained wider recognition for playing Ben Solo / Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
- Driver began his film career in supporting roles in films such as Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and Silence (2016)
- He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his lead role in the drama Hungry Hearts (2014)
- And the LAFCA Best Actor for playing a poet in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (2016)
- He has earned significant acclaim for his roles in BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Marriage Story (2019)
- For the former, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Driver made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (2010)
- He subsequently appeared in Man and Boy (2011)
- 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 co-founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that brings high-quality arts programming to active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff and their families around the world free of charge
- He founded the organization with his wife Joanne Tucker in 2006
- Driver was born in San Diego, California
- He is the son of Nancy Wright, a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver
- His father’s family is from Arkansas
- His mother’s family is from Indiana
- His stepfather, Rodney G. Wright, is a minister at a Baptist church
- He has English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Dutch ancestry
- When Driver was seven years old, he moved with his older sister and mother to her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana
- He attended Mishawaka High School, where he graduated in 2001
- Driver was raised Baptist
- He had a religious upbringing and sang in the choir at church
- As a teenager, Driver described himself as a “misfit,” telling M Magazine that he climbed radio towers, set objects on fire, and co-founded a fight club with his friends after being inspired by the film Fight Club
- After high school, and before his military service, Driver worked as a door-to-door salesman selling Kirby vacuum cleaners and as a telemarketer for a basement waterproofing company and Ben Franklin Construction
- After high school, Driver applied to the Juilliard School for drama, but was rejected
- Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Driver joined the United States Marine Corps
- He was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines as an 81mm mortar man
- He served for two years and eight months before dislocating his sternum while mountain biking
- He was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal
- After leaving the Marine Corps, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis for a year
- He then auditioned again and was accepted into Juilliard to study drama
- Driver said that his classmates saw him as an intimidating and volatile figure
- He struggled to fit into a lifestyle so different from the Marines
- He was a member of the Drama Division’s Group 38 (2005–2009)
- There he met his future wife Joanne Tucker
- He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009
- Driver married actress Joanne Tucker in June 2013
- They have a son
- His birth they kept hidden from the press for two years
- They live together in Brooklyn Heights with their dog Moose, a Rottweiler-Pitbull mix
- He is the co-founder of Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), a non-profit that performs theatre for all branches of the military
- Both in the United States and abroad
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