However, he brings a brilliance to even his smaller roles and less acclaimed or popular movies. The actor is so popular the popular HBO news series Last Week Tonight With John Oliver made an entire season-long joke about the main host expressing his attraction to the actor (with Driver of course appearing after many call-outs).ĭriver has had an incredible career, especially considering it's really been a mere decade, even if he's done more significant work than most actors do in a lifetime. He recently earned notice for his role in 2021's Annette and will in Noah Baumbach's White Noise, which is set to release on Netflix sometime in 2022 and has been cast in Francis Ford Coppola's passion project Megalopolis. He has earned two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Supporting Actor in 2018's BlackKklansman and then the following year for Best Actor in 2019's Marriage Story. Since then Driver has worked with some of the biggest directors in the industry like Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, The Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Jim Jarmusch, and Clint Eastwood.ĭriver's most popular role is without a doubt Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which catapulted the actor to international superstardom. His breakout role came in 2012 when he was cast in the hit HBO series Girls. He then attended Julliard and graduated in 2009, and started appearing in plays on and off Broadway.
A former marine who served for two years and eight months, Driver was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal after he fractured his sternum while mountain biking just before he was to be shipped to Iraq. Adam Driver has become one of the most in-demand and well-respected actors in the past few years.