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Adam Driver (born November 19, 1983 in San Diego, California) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in the supporting role of Adam Sackler in the hit HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession (2010). In 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar.

Driver has appeared in supporting roles in a wide range of hit films, including Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and Silence (2016). He starred in While We're Young (2014) and won the Volpi Cup for his role in Hungry Hearts (2014), as well as several best actor awards for his performance in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson (2016). Driver gained worldwide attention and acclaim for playing the main antagonist turned reformed anti-hero Kylo Ren in the entire Star Wars sequel trilogy in addition to his other appearances like those that had him reprising the role in the form of Voice Acting in Video Games, first in The Force Awakens (2015) then The Last Jedi (2017) and finally in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military, both in the United States and abroad.

In 2022, Driver played Jerome Crystal, nephew of "Doc", in Fraggle Rock: The Movie, for which he also provided the singing vocals for Rederick LaMancha, Red Fraggle's Vegas stage persona.

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