Adam Driver

Biography

Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Martin Scorsese has called Driver "one of the finest, if not the finest" actors of his generation. Driver made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession (2010) and subsequently appeared in Man and Boy (2011). He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver began his film career in supporting roles in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012), and the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his lead role in the drama Hungry Hearts (2014) and starred as a poet in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson (2016), the missionary in Scorsese's religious epic Silence (2016), and Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky (2017). Driver gained wider recognition for playing Ben Solo / Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). In 2019, he returned to theater in the Broadway revival of Burn This, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He garnered consecutive Academy Award nominations; Best Supporting Actor for Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018), and Best Actor for Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story (2019). In 2021, he starred in the musical Annette and two films directed by Ridley Scott, the medieval drama The Last Duel and the crime drama House of Gucci. Driver is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that provides free arts programming to American active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff, and their families worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Graham Norton Show

Saturday Night Live

All Movies (71)

• Paper Tiger2026 · as Gary Pearl
• Father Mother Sister Brother2025 · as Jeff
• Megadoc2025 · as Self
• In Whose Name?2025 · as Self
• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance | Disneyland Resort2025 · as Kylo Ren
• SNL50: The Homecoming Concert2025 · as Self
• Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music2025 · as Self
• Megalopolis2024 · as Cesar Catilina
• It's Not Me2024 · as (archive footage)
• Ferrari2023 · as Enzo Ferrari
• 652023 · as Mills
• White Noise2022 · as Jack Gladney
• Everyday Portabella2022
• The Making of the Last Duel2021 · as Self
• House of Gucci2021 · as Maurizio Gucci
• The Last Duel2021 · as Jacques Le Gris
• Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus2021 · as Self
• Annette2021 · as Henry McHenry
• The Sparks Brothers2021 · as Self (uncredited)
• The Making of "Marriage Story"2020 · as Self
• The Skywalker Legacy2020 · as Self
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker2019 · as Kylo Ren / Ben Solo
• He Dreams of Giants2019 · as Self
• Marriage Story2019 · as Charlie Barber
• The Report2019 · as Daniel Jones
• Marriage Story: From the Pages to the Performances2019 · as Self
• The Dead Don't Die2019 · as Officer Ronnie Peterson
• Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• BlacKkKlansman2018 · as Flip Zimmerman
• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote2018 · as Toby
• The Director and the Jedi2018 · as Self
• Balance of the Force2018 · as Self
• The Force of Sound2018 · as Ben Solo / Kylo Ren (archive footage)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017 · as Kylo Ren
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)2017 · as Randy
• Logan Lucky2017 · as Clyde Logan
• A Goodbye to Girls2017 · as Self
• Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence2017 · as Self
• Silence2016 · as Garupe
• Paterson2016 · as Paterson
• Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey2016 · as Self
• Midnight Special2016 · as Agent Sevier
• Star Wars: Greatest Moments2015 · as Self
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens2015 · as Kylo Ren
• While We're Young2015 · as Jamie Massey
• Hungry Hearts2015 · as Jude
• This Is Where I Leave You2014 · as Phillip Altman
• Bluebird2014 · as Walter
• Tracks2013 · as Rick Smolan
• Inside Llewyn Davis2013 · as Al Cody
• What If2013 · as Allan
• Picasso Baby2013 · as Self
• Frances Ha2013 · as Lev Shapiro
• Best Friends2013 · as Narrator (voice)
• The River2013 · as Joe
• Lincoln2012 · as Samuel Beckwith
• Gayby2012 · as Neil
• Not Waving but Drowning2012 · as Adam
• J. Edgar2011 · as Walter Lyle
• Sweet Nothings2011 · as Adam
• I'm Coming Over2011 · as Evan
• The Basement2011 · as Adam
• You Don't Know Jack2010 · as Glen Stetson
• Goldstar, Ohio2010 · as Jared Rock
• Archangel2010 · as Man
• Untitled Leos Carax Project—
• Yankee Comandante— · as William Alexander Morgan
• Vent—
• Misty Green—
• Alone at Dawn—
• Tomorrow Is a Drag—

All TV Shows (21)

• Mostra, Venise2022 · as Self
• LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises2016 · as Kylo Ren (voice)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Girls2012 · as Adam Sackler
• Bob's Burgers2011 · as Art the Artist (voice)
• Conan2010 · as Self - Guest
• The Unusuals2009 · as Will Slansky
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Jason Roberts
• Law & Order1990 · as Robby Vickery
• The Simpsons1989 · as Adam Sackler (voice)
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• The Dealer—
• Rabbit, Rabbit— · as J-Will