How tall is Adam Driver?

How tall is Adam Driver?

Adam Driver is 189 cm, which is about 6′2½″ (6′2.4″ to be exact). That figure is the height statement on his Wikidata entry, which cites his biography on IMDb, and it is the value this site uses. Like most actors, Driver has not published a doctor's measurement, but the listing is consistent with how he compares with co-stars whose heights are well documented.

There is also an unusual cross-check. The official Star Wars reference book The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary gives his character, Kylo Ren, a height of 1.89 m, exactly the same as Driver's own listing. The book does not explain how the figure was chosen, but the match is exact to the centimeter.

From Mishawaka to the Marines

Adam Douglas Driver was born in Fontana, California, east of Los Angeles. After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother to Mishawaka, Indiana, where he was raised largely by his stepfather, a Baptist minister. He sang in the church choir and was active in choir and theater at Mishawaka High School, appearing in school productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Into the Woods and Guys and Dolls. He has described his teenage self as a misfit.

He applied to the Juilliard School and was turned down. After a short-lived attempt at an acting career in Los Angeles at 18, which ended when he ran out of money within a week, he returned to Indiana. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

Height and service

Driver was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, as an 81mm mortarman. He served for two years and eight months before fracturing his sternum in a mountain-biking accident.

After the Marines, he spent a year at the University of Indianapolis, then auditioned for Juilliard again and was accepted. He has said that classmates in the Drama Division found him intimidating and volatile at first, as he adjusted from military life. He graduated in 2009 and married his Juilliard classmate Joanne Tucker in 2013. He also founded Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brought theater to military communities until it dissolved in 2023.

Career highlights

Driver broke through as Adam Sackler on Lena Dunham's HBO series Girls, earning three consecutive Emmy nominations. He received Oscar nominations for BlacKkKlansman and Marriage Story, won the Volpi Cup at Venice for Hungry Hearts (2014), and was nominated for a Tony for the 2019 Broadway revival of Burn This.

On stage

Driver has kept returning to the theater. He made his Broadway debut in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession in 2010, won a Lucille Lortel Award for the off-Broadway Look Back in Anger, and played Pale opposite Keri Russell in the 2019 Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, a performance critics called explosive. In 2024 he played the fictional country star Strings McCrane in Kenneth Lonergan's Hold On to Me Darling off-Broadway, earning Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations.

Outside acting, he has hosted Saturday Night Live four times, most recently in December 2023, and served as an honorary starter at the 2023 Indianapolis 500, held in Indiana, the state where he was raised.

Kylo Ren: a character built to the actor's size

Driver was cast as the villain Kylo Ren in early 2014, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released on December 18, 2015. He returned in The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). StarWars.com's databank describes Kylo Ren as the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, a dark-side warrior who led the Knights of Ren and rose to Supreme Leader of the First Order.

The official reference books give the character concrete measurements. According to Wookieepedia's summary of the sources, The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary lists him at 1.89 m (6′2″), and The Force Awakens: Head-to-Head lists his mass at 89 kg. The height matches Driver's listing exactly.

Kylo Ren next to the Skywalker family

Because the reference books give heights for most of the saga's characters, Kylo Ren can be compared with his relatives in canon as well as on set. The site's character data gives these figures:

Darth Vader, whose legacy StarWars.com says Kylo Ren set out to fulfill, is the only one taller, and his height is measured in armor. Han Solo, his father, is 9 cm shorter in canon, and Luke Skywalker, his uncle and former teacher, is 17 cm shorter.

The actors behind the family

On set, the real-world comparisons are similar. Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo in five films, is listed at 185 cm, about 4 cm shorter than Driver. Daisy Ridley, who played Rey, is listed at 170 cm, matching Rey's canon height and about 19 cm shorter than Driver. StarWars.com's databank recounts how Rey bested Kylo in a lightsaber duel at the end of The Force Awakens, a fight in which the smaller fighter won.

Adam Driver next to his co-stars

Beyond Star Wars, Driver's career has paired him with actors across a wide range of heights:

The Last Duel

Ridley Scott's The Last Duel (2021), written by Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, cast Driver as the squire Jacques le Gris opposite Damon's knight Jean de Carrouges and Jodie Comer as Marguerite. Affleck played Count Pierre d'Alençon. The film's central duel set Driver against Damon, who is about 11 cm shorter. Affleck, at 192 cm, is one of the few co-stars who stands taller than Driver.

Marriage Story and House of Gucci

In Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story (2019), Driver and Scarlett Johansson played a couple going through a divorce. At 160 cm, Johansson is about 29 cm shorter. The two reunited in James Gray's Paper Tiger, which premiered at Cannes in 2026. In Ridley Scott's House of Gucci (2021), Driver played Maurizio Gucci opposite Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, with Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Salma Hayek also in the cast. Gaga is listed at 155 cm, a gap of about 34 cm that is the largest in the table, and Pacino, at 168 cm, is about 21 cm shorter than Driver.

Annette and Megalopolis

Leos Carax's rock-opera musical Annette (2021), with story and music by Ron and Russell Mael, cast Driver as a stand-up comedian and Marion Cotillard as his opera-singer wife. It opened the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Cotillard is listed at 169 cm, about 20 cm shorter than Driver. In Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (2024), he played Cesar Catilina, a visionary architect in an alternate New York restyled as New Rome, opposite Giancarlo Esposito as the city's corrupt mayor. The film premiered in competition at Cannes and divided critics.

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Weight, build and physical transformations

No studio or official body lists Driver's own weight, so this page does not give one. His build has nevertheless been a public topic. In 2020 his muscular frame became a running joke on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Driver eventually appeared on the season finale to demand an apology. In 2021, his shirtless appearance in a Burberry fragrance campaign went viral.

He has also changed his body dramatically for a role. While filming Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016), in which he played a 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest, Driver lost almost 50 pounds. His height, of course, stayed the same; only the build changed.

How Adam Driver compares with the average American man

Driver was born in 1983. The NCD-RisC estimates used on the site's United States average height page put American men born in 1976 at 177.5 cm and those born in 1996 at 177.1 cm. At 189 cm, Driver is about 11.5 to 12 cm (roughly 4.5 inches) taller than the average man of his generation.

The CDC's measured national survey for 2015–2018 found that American men aged 20 and over averaged 175.3 cm, with a 95th percentile of 187.4 cm. Driver's 189 cm is above that line: fewer than one American man in twenty is taller. Among men aged 30 to 39, the group he belonged to when The Force Awakens was released, the 95th percentile was 188.7 cm, and Driver sits just above it.

Use the height percentile calculator to see where your own height falls.

What's next

Driver is set to play Mister Sinister in an untitled X-Men reboot planned for 2028, and he has been in talks to join Heat 2, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio (185.4 cm) and Christian Bale (183 cm), both of whom he would stand above. With a height in the top 5 percent of American men, he is one of the tallest leading men of his generation. Browse more actors on the celebrities hub.