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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
Kylo Ren
for Kylo Ren in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
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After the final battle on Jakku in 'The Force Awakens', Luke and Rey leave to go to Tatooine to meet Mara Jade, as well as Luke's young son, named Jayson. They then leave to go throughout the Galaxy and reunite the New Jedi Order, hoping to receive answers of the ancient evil they face. Once they begin their journey, they reunite with one of the first of the new Jedi Luke trained, Tsabb Bri, a Rodian Jedi. He informs them that he has found a name of an ancient being, one so close to the force, she became a being of pure darkside; Abaloth. They then travel to Ahch-To, home of the first Jedi temple, in hopes of finding answers about Abaloth. Once at the temple, they meet a woman who has been hiding at the temple since the end of the galactic civil war, and claims to have worked with Anakin Skywalker. Her name is Ashoka Tano. Meanwhile, Han, Leia, Lando, Poe, Finn, Udic, and the Mandalorian learn that a major benefactor of the First Order is a female Hutt named Szuumo the Hutt. They learn she resides on Coruscant, and go there to track her down, in hopes of disrupting most of the First Orders finance. Once there, however, they learn a much bigger secret about the First Order. A secret that changes everything.
