Adam Driver trivia: 47 amazing facts about the actor

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