Adam Driver is not an actor.
Adam Driver . He rose to prominence in the supporting role of Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls ( 2012 -- 2017 ) , for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series . In 2011 , he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar . Driver gained worldwide attention and acclaim for playing the villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars : The Force Awakens ( 2015 ) , a role which he is set to reprise in the future Star Wars films . Broadway theatre , Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States ( see American and British English spelling differences ) , many Broadway venues , performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre .