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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.
Five years after Professor Charles Xavier founded the X-Men, mutants remain caught between hope and fear. As the world begins to accept heroes like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, mutants still face suspicion, hatred, and political pressure from those who believe they are a threat. While Xavier and his friend Erik Lehnsherr, known as Magneto, investigate a mutant serial killer, the X-Men continue protecting those who fear and hate them. Led by Scott Summers, known as Cyclops, the team consists of Jean Grey, Hank McCoy, Bobby Drake, Ororo Munroe, and newest recruit Remy LeBeau, Gambit. Jean senses something is wrong with Gambit. When a murdered mutant named Toad is discovered and evidence points toward Gambit's involvement, the X-Men question whether their newest member has betrayed them. The truth reveals a darker conspiracy. Gambit was secretly working for Nathaniel Essex, known as Mister Sinister, a geneticist conducting horrific experiments on mutants. Sinister's goal is to capture Cyclops and Jean Grey, believing their abilities hold the key to mutant evolution. But Gambit never understood Sinister's work, and discovering the horrors beneath the surface makes him realize he helped create a monster. With mutant acceptance hanging by a thread, the X-Men and Magneto race to stop Sinister before he destroys everything Xavier has spent decades building. As Jean faces a telepathic enemy unlike anything she has encountered and Cyclops fights to save his team, Gambit must decide whether to return to the life he escaped from or fight for the family he found. In the aftermath, Gambit proves his mistakes do not define him, earning his place among the X-Men. But as the team celebrates, Mister Sinister survives and begins a new chapter of his experiments, revealing that his plans for mutantkind have only just begun.
