Age: 42
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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 / Ben Solo
for Kylo Ren / Ben Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Thirty years after the fall of the Empire, the New Republic has restored democracy to the galaxy, but a radical terrorist movement known as the First Order seeks to destroy everything the Rebel Alliance fought to build. During a raid on a Republic archive, stormtrooper technician RA-2187 refuses to participate in the massacre of innocent civilians, attracting the suspicion of the fearsome Kylo Ren. Escaping with a stolen map leading to the missing Luke Skywalker, she reluctantly joins forces with Republic pilot Sam Solo as they flee the First Order. Sam gradually realizes that the woman he once viewed as an enemy is actually a victim of lifelong indoctrination. Guided by Ambassador Han Solo and General Leia Organa, Rey witnesses the compassion and unity that define the Republic, forcing her to question everything she has ever known. Meanwhile, Kylo Ren reports to the resurrected Darth Plagueis, who manipulates him into carrying out a devastating plan to cripple the Republic from within. After the First Order launches a surprise assault on the Resistance and later attempts to destroy Coruscant through sabotage, Rey chooses to stop running from her past and fight for the people who accepted her. The mission culminates in Han Solo's tragic confrontation with Kylo—revealed to be his son, Ben Solo—and a climactic duel in which Rey discovers her connection to the Force but is ultimately defeated and scarred by Kylo. Although the Republic saves countless lives and prevents the destruction of its capital, the victory comes at great personal cost. Inspired by her newfound purpose, Rey sets out to find Luke Skywalker, no longer fleeing fear but running toward hope.
