Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. His first feature length credit was in Barry Levinson’s TV movie You Don’t Know Jack (2010), Al Pacino, John Goodman, Danny Huston, Susan Sarandon, and Brenda Vaccaro. He made his feature film debut in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar (2011), with Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, and Judi Dench.
Other films in the 2010s include Gayby (2012), with Jenn Harris, Matthew Wilkas, Mike Doyle, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Jack Ferver, and Jonathan Lisecki (who also directed); Not Waving But Drowning (2012), with Vanessa Ray, Megan Guinan, and Lynn Cohen; Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), with Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones; Bluebird (2013), with Amy Morton, Margo Martindale, John Slattery, Emily Meade, and Louisa Krause; Joel & Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), with Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, and Justin Timberlake; Tracks (2013), with Mia Wasikowska; The F Word (2013), with Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park, Mackenzie Davis, and Rafe Spall; Hungry Hearts (2014), with Alba Rohrwacher and Roberta Maxwell; and Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You (2014), with Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard, and Jane Fonda.
He gained international stardom as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2015 – 2019), collection with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Max von Sydow, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, Benicio del Toro, Frank Oz, Naomi Ackie, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Ian McDiarmid, and Billy Dee Williams.
Other films in the mid 2010s include Jeff Nichols’s Midnight Special (2016), with Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Martell, and Sam Shepard; Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (2016), with Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley, Cliff Smith, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper, and Masatoshi Nagase; Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016), with Andrew Garfield, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds, and Liam Neeson; and Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky (2017), with Channing Tatum, Riley Keough, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, Katherine Waterston, and Sebastian Stan.
He received his first Academy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2018), with John David Washington, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. Other films in the late 2010s include Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), with Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Watkins, and Joana Ribeiro; The Report (2019), with Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Stoll, and Maura Tierney; and Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die (2019), with Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Carol Kane, Austin Butler, Selena Gomez, and Tom Waits.
He has frequently appeared in films by director Noah Baumbach, including Frances Ha (2012), with Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Zegan, and Grace Gunmer; While We’re Young (2014), with Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, and Adam Horovitz; The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017), with Adam Sandler, Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, Emma Thompson, Candice Bergen, Judd Hirsch, and Rebecca Miller; Marriage Story (2019), with Scarlett Johansson, Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty, and Merritt Wever – earning a second Academy Award nomination (Best Actor); and White Noise (2022), with Gerwig and Don Cheadle.
Other films in the 2020s include Leos Carax’s Annette (2021), with Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell, and Angèle; Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel (2021), with Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Ben Affleck, House of Gucci (2021), with Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, and Pacino; Scott Beck & Bryan Woods 65 (2023), with Ariana Greenblatt; Michael Mann’s Ferrari (2023), with Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, and Patrick Dempsey; and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024), with Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney, and Hoffman.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Archangel (2010) – directed by James Lawler – short
- Goldstar, Ohio (2010) – directed by Michael Tisdale – short
- You Don’t Know Jack (2010) – directed by Barry Levinson – TV movie
- J. Edgar (2011) – directed by Clint Eastwood
- The Basement (2011) – directed by Eric Scherbarth – short
- Sweet Nothings (2011) – directed by Mike Figgis – short
- Gayby (2012) – directed by Jonathan Lisecki
- I’m Coming Over (2012) – directed by Sam Handel – short
- Not Waving But Drowning (2012) – directed by Devyn Waitt
- Frances Ha (2012) – directed by Noah Baumbach
- Lincoln (2012) – directed by Steven Spielberg
- The River (2012) – directed by Sam Handel – short
- Bluebird (2013) – directed by Lance Edmands
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)* – directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
- Tracks (2013) – directed by John Curran
- The F Word (2013) – directed by Michael Dowse
- Hungry Hearts (2014) – directed by Saverio Costanzo
- While We’re Young (2014) – directed by Noah Baumbach
- This Is Where I Leave You (2014)* – directed by Shawn Levy
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)* – directed by J.J. Abrams
- Midnight Special (2016) – directed by Jeff Nichols
- Paterson (2016) – directed by Jim Jarmusch
- Silence (2016) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) – directed by Noah Baumbach
- Logan Lucky (2017)* – directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)* – directed by Rian Johnson
- BlacKkKlansman (2018) – directed by Spike Lee
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)* – directed by Terry Gilliam
- The Report (2019) – directed by Scott Z. Burns
- The Dead Don’t Die (2019)* – directed by Jim Jarmusch
- Marriage Story (2019) – directed by Noah Baumbach
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)* – directed by J.J. Abrams
- Annette (2021) – directed by Leos Carax – also producer
- The Last Duel (2021) – directed by Ridley Scott
- House of Gucci (2021) – directed by Ridley Scott
- White Noise (2022) – directed by Noah Baumbach
- 65 (2023) – directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
- Ferrari (2023) – directed by Michael Mann
- Megalopolis (2024)* – directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (202-) – directed by Jim Jarmusch
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