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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 Guild Awards. Martin Scorsese has called Driver "one of the finest, if not the finest" actors of his generation. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Adam Driver
Lemony Snicket
for Lemony Snicket in A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Suggested by filmandthespian
If you are looking for a tale of joy, warmth, and happy endings, I regret to inform you that A Series of Unfortunate Events is not the book for you. It follows the woeful lives of the Baudelaire orphans—Violet, Klaus, and Sunny—who, after the tragic demise of their parents in a mysterious fire, are thrust into a relentless series of misfortunes. Hounded by the villainous Count Olaf, a man so despicable that merely describing him could ruin your day, the Baudelaires must rely on their wits, inventions, and a considerable amount of luck to escape his clutches. Along the way, they encounter peculiar guardians, secret organizations, and mysteries so tangled that even reading about them may cause you great distress. Despite their intelligence and bravery, their story is one of sorrow, deception, and an utter lack of happy endings, so it is not too late to set this summary aside and seek something more cheerful—perhaps a book about kittens or birthday parties.
