Adam Driver is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served for two years and eight months because he fractured his sternum while mountain biking. He was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal.

Adam Driver is 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.

Adam Douglas Driver was born on November 19, 1983, in San Diego, California, United States of America. Adam Driver made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (2010) and subsequently appeared in Man and Boy (2011).

Adam Driver received major off-Broadway recognition for playing Cliff, a working-class Welsh houseguest in Look Back in Anger. Driver gained wider recognition for playing Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019).

Adam Driver played a poet in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (2016) and had supporting roles in Martin Scorsese’s religious epic Silence (2016) and Steven Soderbergh’s heist comedy Logan Lucky (2017).