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Adam Douglas Driver is an American stage, film, and television actor. Born on November 19, 1983, in San Diego, California, he holds United States citizenship. He received his education at the University of Indianapolis and the Juilliard School. Driver served in the United States Marine Corps before beginning his professional acting career in 2010. He is a native English speaker and stands 189 centimeters tall.
His acting work has been recognized with several awards, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, and a Film Independent Spirit Award. He has also received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and the César Award for Best Actor. Driver has one child.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Theater of War, The
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Film & TV
Acting · San Diego, California, USA
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…
Known for
- Paper Tiger — Gary Pearl2026
- Father Mother Sister Brother — Jeff2025
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self2025
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self2025
- Megadoc — Self2025
- In Whose Name? — Self2025
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance | Disneyland Resort — Kylo Ren2025
- Megalopolis — Cesar Catilina2024
- It's Not Me — (archive footage)2024
- Ferrari — Enzo Ferrari2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 1,665
- Total plays
- 13,043
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,278x
- The variant call format and VCFtools
· 2011 · cited 15,747x
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Quotes
- “Until recently I didn't know what Instagram was. It's not that I don't feel like I'm part of my generation I'm way better than when I was No I didn't know.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. His breakout performance as Adam Sackler in the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017) earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver played supporting roles in Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and While We're Young (2014), before gaining more extensive 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 portraying Detective Philip "Flip" Zimmerman in BlacKkKlansman (2018) as well as Best Actor for his role as Charlie Barber in Marriage Story (2019).
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