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Before Star Wars, Adam Driver was best known for playing Adam Sackler in the HBO series Girls from 2012 to 2017, a role that earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. He also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for Hungry Hearts in 2014.
Adam Driver served in the U.S. Marine Corps after the September 11 attacks, assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines as an 81mm mortar man. He served two years and eight months before fracturing his sternum in a mountain biking accident, which ended his service.
Adam Driver attended Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he was a member of Group 38 from 2005 to 2009. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009. He had previously applied to Juilliard directly out of high school but was not accepted.
Adam Driver has received two Academy Award nominations. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for BlacKkKlansman in 2018 and for Best Actor for Marriage Story in 2019, making him one of a small group to receive nominations in both categories in consecutive years.
Adam Driver founded Arts in the Armed Forces, known as AITAF, a nonprofit that performed theater for all branches of the U.S. military in the United States and abroad. The organization provided arts programming to military communities until it dissolved in 2023.
Adam Driver has hosted Saturday Night Live four times. His fourth hosting appearance was on the 9th of December 2023, with Olivia Rodrigo as the musical guest.