Adam Driver Biography
Adam Driver is an American actor best known for his breakout role in the HBO series Girls, as well as for his roles in the movies Inside Llewyn Davis, Silence, and Star Wars. By age 33, he had already worked with filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch, Steven Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, Steven Spielberg, the Coen brothers, and Martin Scorsese, and also become part of the world's favorite space movie sequel. Net worth: $16 million.
Early life
Adam Driver was born on November 19, 1983, in San Diego, California. His father, Joe, was a Protestant preacher, and his mother, Nancy, was a legal assistant. They soon divorced, and Nancy later remarried, this time to a Baptist priest.

For some time he was selling vacuum cleaners, mowing lawns, and answering calls in the office. All that was done in order to pay $ 200 rental fee for a tiny room in the house of his own parents, relations with whom were so strained that the guy was banned from entering the main part of the house and even forced to buy his own refrigerator
US Army Service
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted Adam Driver to join the army. Following his father's advice, he walked into the army recruitment office and declared: "I want to become a man!" He joined the Marine Corps and served for nearly three years — until he suffered a serious injury to the sternum after falling off a mountain bike. The accident led to his medical discharge.
The career of an actor
Fresh out of Juilliard, Driver landed his first role in the TV series The Unusuals (2009). From there, he appeared in several short films and the TV series Law & Order, as well as in the movies You Don't Know Jack playing with Al Pacino (2010) and in The Wonderful Maladies (2010).
In 2011, Driver landed the role that would elevate his career to the next level - in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls he played emotionally unstable Adam Sackler. When the series premiered a year later, it became a cultural phenomenon. For this role, Adam was nominated for the Emmy award three times: in 2013, 2014 and 2015.



Next came another major project where Adam Driver landed one of the leading roles. The drama Silence by Martin Scorsese tells the story about the persecution of Christians in feudal Japan. Two priests (Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield) travel there searching for a missing mentor (Liam Neeson) and face torture because of their faith.

At the same time, he was starring as the lead actor in Jim Jarmusch's movie Paterson. His character is a bus driver named Paterson after his hometown, who writes poetry in his spare time. The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or award.Scorsese is the most incredible director I've ever worked with. And among them were many masters. For me, Scorsese was completely mysterious, and I trusted him completely.

In 2018, Adam Driver starred in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" with Olga Kurylenko, plus Sylvester Stallone's action movie "Tough as They Come."
Private life of Adam Driver
Adam Driver has a wife whose name is Joan Tucker. They studied together at Juilliard. "She taught me not to spit in the street, and I showed her the Rolling Stones," the actor said about their first meeting.
