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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 Gui... more

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.

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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Runtime:

136 min

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Cast:

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Adam Driver

7.8

93%

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Lincoln

(2012)

Drama, History

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical mome...

Runtime:

149 min

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Cast:

Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader

7.4

90%

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

(2017)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

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Runtime:

152 min

Director:

Rian Johnson

Cast:

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega

7.2

91%

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(2013)

Drama, Music

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Runtime:

104 min

7.4

94%

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(2019)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

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Runtime:

142 min

Cast:

Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Adam Driver

6.6

51%

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(2017)

Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama

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Runtime:

118 min

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Cast:

Channing Tatum, Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Adam Driver

7.0

92%

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(2016)

Drama, History

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Runtime:

161 min

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Cast:

Andrew Garfield, Ken Watanabe, Issei Ogata, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson

7.2

84%

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(2013)

Comedy, Drama

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Runtime:

86 min

7.4

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(2011)

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137 min

6.6

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Paterson

(2016)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Runtime:

118 min

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Cast:

Adam Driver

7.4

96%

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(2016)

Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

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Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Jeff Nichols

Cast:

Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Joel Edgerton, Adam Driver, David Jensen

6.7

83%

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(2013)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Runtime:

93 min

6.8

71%

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(2014)

Comedy, Drama

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Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Shawn Levy

Cast:

Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll

6.6

41%

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(2013)

Adventure, Drama

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Runtime:

112 min

Director:

John Curran

Cast:

Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Rainer Bock

7.2

82%

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(2017)

Comedy, Drama

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Runtime:

112 min

Cast:

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6.9

93%

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(2015)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Noah Baumbach

Cast:

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6.3

84%

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(2021)

Drama, Romance

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Runtime:

140 min

Cast:

Michelle Williams, Adam Driver, Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg

6.3

71%

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(2018)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

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Runtime:

133 min

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Cast:

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6.4

63%

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(2015)

Drama

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Runtime:

109 min

6.4

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(2012)

Comedy

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Runtime:

89 min

6.0

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(2014)

Drama

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Runtime:

90 min

Director:

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Cast:

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5.8

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Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Devyn Waitt

Cast:

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Runtime:

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8.4

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Runtime:

88 min

Director:

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Cast:

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Cast:

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