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Adam Driver

actor

Born: American

Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor. His breakout performance as an emotionally unstable actor in the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017) earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver made his film debut in J. Edgar (2011), and played supporting roles in Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and While We're Young (2014), before gaining wider recognition for his portrayal of Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019).

He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for a leading role in Hungry Hearts (2014) and received consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for playing a Jewish police officer infiltrating the KKK in BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Best Actor for his role as a theater director going through a divorce 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).

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American actor

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  1. Adam Driver is born

    Adam Driver, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-11-19. Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor.

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