Geborener Name
Adam Fahrer
Spitzname
Adam, Ohren 2 (der Name, den ihm seine Kollegen gaben, als er im Marine Corps war)
Sonnenzeichen
Skorpion
Geburtsort
San Diego, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten
Residenz
Brooklyn Heights, New York City, USA
Staatsangehörigkeit
Bildung
Adam absolvierte 2001 die örtliche Mishawaka High School .
Seine Mutter erzog ihn mit den Werten der Midwest Bible School und dies wurde durch Adams Teilnahme am Kirchenchor weiter verstärkt.
Später wurde seine Bewerbung bei Juilliard abgelehnt, was seinem Selbstwertgefühl einen Schlag versetzte.
Nachdem er im US Marine Corps gedient hatte, war Adam entschlossen, es als Schauspieler zu schaffen. Er schrieb sich für ein Jahr an der Universität von Indianapolis ein und zog 2005 nach New York, nachdem er zum Schauspielstudium an der Juilliard School zugelassen worden war .
Er erwarb 2009 einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Bildender Kunst und unterstützte sich während des gesamten Studiums und unmittelbar danach finanziell, indem er als Busboy und Kellner arbeitete, bis er seinen ersten Schauspielauftrag erhielt.
Besetzung
Darsteller
Familie
- Vater - Joe Douglas Fahrer (arbeitet in einem Bürodepot)
- Mutter - Nancy Wright geb. Needham (Rechtsanwaltsfachangestellte bei der Anwaltskanzlei Hains)
- Geschwister - Adam hat 1 ältere Schwester.
- Andere - Rodney G. Wright (Minister in einer Baptistenkirche)
Manager
Die Gersh Agency, Beverly Hills, Kalifornien und NYC.
Bauen
Sportlich
Höhe
189 cm
Gewicht
88 kg
Freundin / Ehepartner
- Joanne Tucker (2005 - heute) - Adam traf Joanne bei Juilliard. Die beiden befanden sich in derselben Gruppe namens Juilliard Drama Group 38. Das Paar war jahrelang zusammen und knüpfte eine feste Verbindung, bevor Adam jemals berühmt wurde. Sie zogen zusammen und heirateten schließlich im Juni 2013 auf einer geheimen Hochzeit in einem Reiseziel. Joanne schenkte Adam an Halloween nach der Heirat einen Rottweiler-Pit-Bullenmischhund namens Moose, und der Schauspieler ist tief damit verbunden. Es besteht eine sehr hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Adam und Joanne 2016 oder 2017 ihr erstes gemeinsames Kind hatten, aber das Paar hat dieses Kind vor den Medien geheim gehalten. Adam hat diese Informationen versehentlich während eines Interviews veröffentlicht und sein Logan (2017) -Co-Star Channing Tatum hat diese Tatsache in einem anderen Interview preisgegeben.
Rasse / ethnische Zugehörigkeit
Weiß
Adam’s father comes from English, German, Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish, distant Welsh, and remote Swedish ancestry.
His mother is one-fourth Dutch and has English, German and Irish lineage.
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Hazel
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Distinctive Features
- Large head and big ears that stick out to the side
- Unconventional facial features
- Towering physical frame
Brand Endorsements
The most high profile brand commercials that signed Adam for their advertisement are –
- Budweiser (2017)
- Snickers released the first-ever live Super Bowl commercial starring Driver during Super Bowl LI (2017)
Religion
He was raised with devout Christian values. Adam stated that he stopped pursuing his family’s faith after reaching adulthood.
Best Known For
- Playing his breakthrough role of Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy-drama Girls (2012-2017).
- Earned global fame for playing the main antagonist Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy namely,
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
- Star Wars: Episode IX (2019)
First Film
Adam had a minor supporting character role of Walter Lyle in Clint Eastwood directed J. Edgar (2011).
First TV Show
Adam was cast as Zed in the HBO pilot The Wonderful Maladys in 2010. The network did not pick it up for a full series.
Personal Trainer
- As a former marine, Adam had a solid foundation in fitness.
- While studying at Juilliard, Adam used to start his day by consuming 6 eggs and then, ran all the way to his drama school which was a part of his everyday workout. Later in the evening, he would often cook and eat a complete chicken.
- Hence, it is more due to the habit that Adam claims he needs to move violently once every day to maintain his sanity.
- The years 2016 to 2017 were particularly challenging for the actor to transform his body to extreme proportions.
- For Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016), Adam lost a whopping 50 lbs of weight through an extreme starvation diet. He lost 30 lbs before filming and continued to lose another 20 lbs while shooting was on to depict his survival in a land infested with disease and shortage of food.
- He primarily nibbled on controlled portions of salad and consumed weight loss generating water pills / diuretics.
- The actor confessed that diuretics kept him awake at night. While filming, he barely had the energy to speak up and express his lines.
- The process was difficult for the actor since he boasts of a large appetite and has confessed to frequently eating two dinners in a single evening.
- Once filming was over, Adam eagerly reached out for a spoonful of peanut butter that much to his relief magically switched on his foggy brain and restored its ability to think.
- He bulked up the conventional way the following year for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by consuming a high protein diet meant to fuel an intense weight training program.
- The actor has a standard breakfast that he has been eating for many years. It comprises of 6 eggs with 1 yolk and two pieces of smoked turkey with coffee and a couple bowls of cereal.
Adam Driver Favorite Things
- Filmmakers – The Coen Brothers (Joel David Coen, Ethan Jesse Coen)
Source – Telegraph
Adam Driver Facts
- Adam’s parents got divorced when he was 7 years old. Thereafter, he was raised in his mother’s hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana.
- After finishing high school, he briefly took up several simultaneous jobs juggling between working as a door-to-door salesman selling Kirby vacuum cleaners, telemarketer for a basement waterproofing company in the morning and for Ben Franklin Construction at night. He worked all 3 jobs at minimum wage for 6 months.
- After the 9/11 catastrophe, Adam joined the United States Marine Corps out of a sense of duty.
- He served for 2 years and 8 months without getting a chance for field service. He was medically discharged after breaking his sternum while mountain biking which was right before his unit was sent on its first deployment to Iraq.
- He was a notorious student in school who was not very good in studies and sports. Known more as a class clown, he shined only in his school’s theatre productions.
- As a rebellious teenager, Adam liked climbing radio towers and setting things on fire. Inspired by Brad Pitt starrer Fight Club (1999), he found a fight club of his own in high school.
- While still a senior in high school, Adam applied only to Juilliard when he found out it was the best school to study acting. When he was turned down, he had nowhere else to go for college education.
- Adam cracked his second Juilliard audition with a dramatic representation of Gloucester’s “Now is the winter of our discontent” speech from Richard III by Shakespeare.
- While studying in Juilliard, the actor was aggressive and intensely committed to his craft. He often made his classmates cry during rehearsals when he doubted their dedication.
- He joined the Marine Corps with the intention to seek revenge and retribution for the 9/11 tragedy.
- Adam is not close to his parents and does not like discussing his relationship with them. He simply states that he is different from both of them and it is difficult for him to stay in touch.
- With the assistance of his wife, Adam founded a non-profit organization called Arts in the Armed Forces (AIAF) which stages the performances for military personnel.
- Adam likes to sing and play musical instruments but added he has not mastered any of those skills to call himself a musician.
- He would like a professional career like that of yesteryear Greek American filmmaker John Cassavetes.
- Adam is extremely uncomfortable with the loss of anonymity that comes with fame. The actor says that it makes him lose the privilege to be a silent observer that aids him in doing his best work.
- The actor does not like watching his own work, be it movies or TV shows, and neither does he like listening to his audio clips recorded during a radio interview. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) was his only movie that he saw in the theatre and it made him so sick in the stomach that he nearly threw up!
- Adam claims he is afraid of the Internet and does not relate to sharing information online. Hence, neither he nor his wife, Joanne have any social media presence.
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