1. Adam Douglas Driver was born on November 19,1983 and is an American actor, recognized for his collaborations with auteur filmmakers.
65 Facts About Adam Driver
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Adam Driver has acted in films such as Logan Lucky, The Report, Annette, House of Gucci, and Megalopolis.
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On stage, Adam Driver made his Broadway debut in Mrs Warren's Profession and subsequently acted in Man and Boy and Burn This, the later of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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Adam Driver was the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that provided free arts programming to American active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff, and their families worldwide.
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Adam Driver was born in Fontana, California, on November 19,1983.
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Adam Driver is the son of Nancy Wright, a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver.
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Adam Driver's family moved to San Diego, where Driver spent time with them until he was seven years old.
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Adam Driver graduated from Mishawaka High School in 2001, while spending time with his older sister and mother at their hometown.
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Adam Driver was raised Baptist, and sang in the choir at church.
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Adam Driver has described his teenage self as a "misfit"; he told M Magazine that he climbed radio towers, set objects on fire, and co-founded a fight club with friends, inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club.
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Adam Driver applied to Juilliard School for drama knowing that they would not look at his grades from high school, but was not accepted.
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Adam Driver spent his money repairing his car only to make it to Santa Monica, where he lived in a hostel for two days and was scammed by a real estate agent he paid to find him an apartment.
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Adam Driver realized he did not have enough money to live, returning to Indiana after only a week away from home.
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Adam Driver was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines as an 81mm mortar man.
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Adam Driver served for two years and eight months, before fracturing his sternum while mountain biking.
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Adam Driver was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal.
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Subsequently, Adam Driver attended the University of Indianapolis for a year before auditioning again for Juilliard, this time succeeding.
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Adam Driver got the news he was accepted while at work at the Target Distribution Center in Indianapolis.
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Adam Driver has said that his classmates saw him as an intimidating and volatile figure, and he struggled to fit into a lifestyle so different from the Marines.
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Adam Driver was a member of the Drama Division's Group 38 from 2005 to 2009, where he met his future wife, Joanne Tucker.
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Adam Driver graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009.
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Adam Driver played a repentant witness and reluctant accomplice to an unsolved assault in the final episode of the television series The Unusuals.
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Adam Driver made his film debut in Clint Eastwood's biographical film J Edgar.
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In 2012, Adam Driver starred in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls, as the emotionally unstable boyfriend of a writer.
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Adam Driver received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role.
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Adam Driver played telegraph and cipher officer Samuel Beckwith in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln, and Lev Shapiro in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Frances Ha.
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Adam Driver starred in the drama Not Waving But Drowning and the romantic-comedy Gayby.
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Adam Driver garnered major off-Broadway recognition for playing Cliff, a working-class Welsh houseguest in Look Back in Anger, and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.
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In 2013, Adam Driver appeared in the drama Bluebird and the romantic-comedy What If.
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Adam Driver played a musician in the Coen Brothers' black comedy Inside Llewyn Davis, and photographer Rick Smolan in the drama Tracks.
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For Vogues September 2013 issue, Adam Driver appeared alongside Canadian model Daria Werbowy set in Ireland, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
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In early 2014, Adam Driver was cast as villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Adam Driver reprised the role in The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.
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Adam Driver had a supporting role in Jeff Nichols' science fiction film Midnight Special, which was released on March 18,2016.
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Adam Driver played a 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese's historical film Silence.
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In Jim Jarmusch's drama film Paterson, Adam Driver played the eponymous bus driver and poetry writer.
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Adam Driver's performance was acclaimed and he received multiple nominations for Best Actor from critics' associations, winning several, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.
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In 2017, Adam Driver made a cameo in Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories, making his third appearance in one of their films.
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Adam Driver played Clyde, a one-armed Iraq War veteran, in Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky, which was released on August 18,2017.
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Adam Driver received critical acclaim for his performance in the film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Adam Driver played Toby Grummett in Terry Gilliam's adventure-comedy film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which premiered at Cannes.
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In 2019, Driver played Daniel J Jones in Scott Z Burns' political drama The Report, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
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That same year, Adam Driver returned to Broadway to play Pale against Keri Russell in Michael Mayer's directed 2019 production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, receiving acclaim for his explosive performance and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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Adam Driver was part of the ensemble cast for Jim Jarmusch's zombie film The Dead Don't Die, which premiered at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and was released on June 14,2019.
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That same year, Adam Driver starred opposite Scarlett Johansson in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
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On January 25,2020, Adam Driver returned to host Saturday Night Live for the third time with musical guest Halsey.
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In 2020, Adam Driver became the subject of a running gag on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, in which Oliver expressed several strange masochistic fantasies about Adam Driver, referencing his muscular build and masculine appearance.
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Adam Driver eventually appeared on the final episode of the season and "demanded an apology".
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Adam Driver again returned for the advertising campaign for the eau de parfum concentration of Hero in 2022.
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In 2021, Adam Driver starred in Leos Carax's musical film Annette, which premiered at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
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Adam Driver had a leading role in Ridley Scott's historical drama The Last Duel, along with the biopic crime film House of Gucci, which covers the assassination of Maurizio Gucci, and was directed by Scott.
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Equally praised by critics and directors, Adam Driver's acting has a unique signature style that displays skittish, unpredictable physicality with full-bodied enthusiasm like Denis Lavant and Buster Keaton.
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In 2022, Adam Driver starred in the apocalyptic black comedy film White Noise, which marks his fifth collaboration with Baumbach.
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Adam Driver starred in the science fiction film 65 and was scheduled to star in Jeff Nichols' historical film Yankee Commandante.
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Adam Driver played Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann's biopic film Ferrari.
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In May 2023, it was announced that Adam Driver would be an honorary starter for the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race.
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On December 9,2023, Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live for the fourth time with musical guest Olivia Rodrigo.
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Adam Driver starred in Francis Ford Coppola's allegorical epic Megalopolis.
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Adam Driver's performance received critical acclaim with Robert Hoffer for The Wrap, considering McCrane to be the best role for Adam Driver.
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Adam Driver married his long-time girlfriend Joanne Tucker in June 2013, whom he met while attending Juilliard.
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Adam Driver is the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military in the United States and abroad.
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Adam Driver has said on multiple occasions that he dislikes watching or listening to his own performances, and chose not to continue with a radio interview with NPR's Fresh Air after the host played a clip from Marriage Story.
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Adam Driver received three nominations for his performance in Girls, from 2013,2014 and 2015, in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category.
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Adam Driver received British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for those films as well.
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Adam Driver received a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture as a part of the ensemble of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.