Adam Driver

Adam Douglas Driver, best known for his portrayal of Adam Sackler on the HBO series, Girls, is an Academy Award-nominated American television, cinema and stage actor.   Driver was born in San Diego, California before moving to Mishawaka, Indiana at the age of seven.  The son of a Baptist Minister, Driver performed regularly with both his church and school choirs.  After graduating high school in 2001, Driver enlisted in the United States Marine Corp, serving four years before accepting an honorable discharge due to injury.  Following his service, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis, before applying to, and being accepted by, Juilliard School’s drama department.   After graduating with a degree in drama studies in 2009, Driver moved to New York City to pursue acting.  There he found success both on and off-Broadway, appearing in numerous plays before landing progressively significant roles in both television and film.   Driver currently works on the HBO dramedy ‘Girls’ as the complicated and oft-misundertood Adam Sackler, opposite creator Lena Dunham.   In 2014, Driver was confirmed to cast a yet unnamed villain in 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII.  He remains an active supporter of military service, creating and running Arts in the Armed Forces with his wife, Joanne Tucker.   
Adam Douglas Driver, best known for his portrayal of Adam Sackler on the HBO series, Girls, is an Academy Award-nominated American television, cinema and stage actor.  

Driver was born in San Diego, California before moving to Mishawaka, Indiana at the age of seven.  The son of a Baptist Minister, Driver performed regularly with both his church and school choirs.  After graduating high school in 2001, Driver enlisted in the United States Marine Corp, serving four years before accepting an honorable discharge due to injury.  Following his service, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis, before applying to, and being accepted by, Juilliard School’s drama department.   After graduating with a degree in drama studies in 2009, Driver moved to New York City to pursue acting.  There he found success both on and off-Broadway, appearing in numerous plays before landing progressively significant roles in both television and film.  

Driver currently works on the HBO dramedy ‘Girls’ as the complicated and oft-misundertood Adam Sackler, opposite creator Lena Dunham.   In 2014, Driver was confirmed to cast a yet unnamed villain in 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII.  He remains an active supporter of military service, creating and running Arts in the Armed Forces with his wife, Joanne Tucker.   ... More.Less.

Filmography

Megalopolis (2024)

Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn...

Ferrari (2023)

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura,...

Annette (2021)

The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they...

House of Gucci (2021)

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and...

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become...

Logan Lucky (2017)

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers....

Silence (2016)

Two Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate,...

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas and set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

Frances Ha (2013)

Shot in black and white, Frances Ha is about an aspiring dancer (co-writer Greta Gerwig) who moves to New York City and becomes caught...

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted, but volatile musician Llewyn Davis contemplates leaving the music scene altogether to...

Lincoln (2012)

A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong...