Adam Driver

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Adam Driver (2017)

Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983 in San Diego , California ) is an American actor .

Driver became internationally known through the impersonation of Kylo Ren in the sequel trilogy of the Star Wars film series. For his roles as police officer Det.Flip Zimmerman in BlacKkKlansman and theater director Charlie Barber in Marriage Story , he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor in 2019 and 2020, respectively .

life and career

Driver moved with his mother from San Diego to Mishawaka , Indiana , where he attended high school when he was seven . A few months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , he went to the US Marines for two years. He then studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York until 2009 and then appeared in Broadway and off-Broadway productions.

On June 22, 2013, Driver married his longtime partner Joanne Tucker. She took over the artistic direction of the non-profit organization "Arts in the Armed Forces", which he founded.

In the sequel trilogy of the Star Wars film series ( The Force Awakens , The Last Jedi , The Rise of Skywalker ), Driver took on the role of the antagonist Kylo Ren from 2015 to 2019 . In Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson about a bus driver with poetry, he played the leading role.

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

In 2019, his involvement in Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor . Another Oscar nomination followed a year later for the lead role in Noah Baumbach's relationship drama Marriage Story (2019).

In German dubbing, it is currently mostly spoken by Robert Glatzeder or Julien Haggège .

Filmography (selection)

Theatrical appearances

  • 2009: Slipping
  • 2009: The Retributionists
  • 2010: Little Doc
  • 2010: The Forest (The Forest)
  • 2010: Mrs. Warren's Profession
  • 2010–2011: Angels in America
  • 2011: Man and Boy
  • 2012: Look Back in Anger
  • 2019: Burn This

Awards (selection)

Academy Awards

British Academy Film Award

Emmy Awards

  • 2013: nominated in the supporting actor category in a comedy series for girls
  • 2014: nominated in the category supporting actors in a comedy series for girls
  • 2015: nominated in the supporting actor category in a comedy series for girls

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

Tony Award

Web links

Commons : Adam Driver  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website ( memento of January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the organization
  2. ↑ Pascal Blum: A picture of a man . In der Bund, December 22, 2016
  3. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017, http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/
personal data
SURNAME Driver, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Driver, Adam Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California