10 Greatest Actors Alive (And Currently Working)
7. Adam Driver
With only twenty-five acting credits to his name, Adam Driver is the most in-experienced on this list. In fact, he hasn’t really had a film role he has truly owned (yet). He’s effective and intriguing in his small role in Inside Llewyn Davis, as is he in the two Noah Baumbach film’s he’s appeared in (Frances, Ha and While We’re Young). But still, nothing mind-blowing. So why is he on this list, you might ask? The long answer would be something about how unique he is, how there’s no other actor even remotely like him or offering what he’s offering. The short answer would be Girls (the TV show, that is, not the gender).
And while being great in a TV show doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be great on the big screen (I’m looking at you, Aaron Paul), Driver is so great in Girls that it’s surely only a matter of time before he transfers his inimitable weirdness to the cinema. Upcoming roles in the new Star Wars film, and in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, look set to give him his best opportunities yet. Watch this space.
See Him In: Girls: in which he steals every scene he’s in before eventually stealing the whole show as well.