Adam Driver is a prominent American actor. Adam Driver is also a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and he founded the Arts in the Armed Forces. As an actor, he has appeared in several movies, series, as well as plays.
Early life and Family
Adam Driver was born on November 19, 1983, and he is currently 37 years old. His full name is Adam Douglas Driver. He hails from San Diego, California, and his zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Talking about his family, his parents are mother Nancy Wright (née Needham) and father Joe Douglas Driver. his mother is a paralegal. He has ancestry of Dutch, English, German, Irish, and Scottish.
Likewise, his father’s family is from Arkansas while his mother’s family is from Indiana. Moreover, his stepfather is Rodney G. Wright and he is a minister at a Baptist church. When he was just seven years old, he moved with his older sister and mother to his mother’s hometown Mishawaka, Indiana. There, he graduated from Mishawaka High School in the year 2001. He grew up Baptist and sang in the choir at church.
Teenage and Military
Caption: Adam Driver’s photographs from when he was serving in the Marine Corps. Source: Reddit
Adam Driver has described his teenage self as a “misfit”. In an interview with M Magazine, he shared that he climbed radio towers, set objects on fire, and co-founded a fight club with friends which were inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club.
After high school, he worked as a door-to-door salesman selling Kirby vacuum cleaners and also as a telemarketer for a basement waterproofing company and Ben Franklin Construction. He then applied to the Juilliard School for drama. However, he was rejected.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps shortly after the September 11 attacks. He was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines as an 81mm mortarman. There, he served for two years and eight months. This was before he fractured his sternum while mountain biking. This was right before his unit got shipped to Iraq. At the time, they medically discharged him with the rank of Lance Corporal.
