Adam Driver
19 November, 1983
| 1.89 m
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Biography
Adam Douglas Driver was born in San Diego, California. His mother, Nancy (Needham) Wright, is a paralegal from Mishawaka, Indiana, and his father, Joe Douglas Driver, who has deep roots in the American South, is from Little Rock, Arkansas. His stepfather is a Baptist minister. His ancestry includes Dutch, English, German, Irish and Scottish. Driver was raised in Mishawaka after his parents' divorce, attending Mishawaka High School, where he appeared in plays. After 9/11, he enlisted in the Marines, serving for more than two years before being medically discharged after he suffered an injury, which prevented him from being deployed.Driver attended the University of Indianapolis (for a year) and then transferred to study drama at Juilliard School in New York City, graduating in 2009. He began acting in plays, appearing on Broadway, before being cast in Lena Dunham's series Dziewczyny (2012), as her character's love interest, Adam Sackler. The role gained him attention, and he subsequently began a robust film career, appearing in small roles in J. Edgar (2011) and Lincoln (2012), supporting roles in Frances Ha (2012) and Co jest grane, Davis? (2013), and then to major mesmerizing roles like in the comedy-drama Powiedzmy sobie wszystko (2014), Martin Scorsese's Milczenie (2016) and as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars movie saga beginning with Gwiezdne wojny: Przebudzenie Mocy (2015).Widely regarded as the one of greatest actors of his generation by now both in the United States and internationally as his superb qualities have been expressed further in a sublime range of excellent performances full of unique profoundness, subtlety, charisma and insights such as the ones included in brilliant films like Paterson (2016), Logan Lucky (2017), Człowiek, który zabił Don Kichota (2018) and Raport (2019). His interpretations in Czarne bractwo. BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Historia małżeńska (2019) were also nominated in... show more
Movies
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
The Knight Jean de Carrouges must settle the dispute over his wife Marguerite by challenging his former friend to a duel to the death.
Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles.
An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
The focus is on the sleepy small town of Centerville where the dead become undead.
A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.
Dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.
A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.