Adam Driver
Driver with Lena Dunham in 2013, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Adam Douglas Driver
Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, United States
Date of Birth: November 19, 1983
Ethnicity: English, one eighth Dutch/Frisian, German, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, more distant Welsh and French, remote Swedish
Adam Driver is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Not Waving but Drowning, Lincoln, Frances Ha, Bluebird, Inside Llewyn Davis, Tracks, The F Word, Hungry Hearts, This Is Where I Leave You, While We’re Young, the Star Wars universe, Midnight Special, Paterson, Silence, Logan Lucky, BlacKkKlansman, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Dead Don’t Die, The Report, Marriage Story, Annette, The Last Duel, House of Gucci, White Noise (2022), 65, and Ferrari; and on the series Girls; and for his acclaimed stage performances.
He is the son of Nancy (Needham) and Joe Douglas Driver. His father’s family is from Arkansas and his mother’s family is from Indiana, where Adam was raised from the age of seven, in Mishawaka. His stepfather is a Baptist minister, and Adam had a religious Baptist upbringing. He is married to actress Joanne Tucker, with whom he has two children.
After 9/11, Adam joined the United States Marine Corps, and served in Afghanistan. He later founded Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit foundation, which stages theatrical performances for military personnel and support staff. Adam is a Lance Corporal in the Marines.
His father has English, German, Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, distant Welsh and French, and remote Swedish, ancestry. A picture of Adam’s father can be seen here. Adam’s mother has English, one fourth Dutch/Frisian, and some German and Irish, ancestry. Adam has said, perhaps facetiously, that he has Native American and “perhaps Russian” ancestry.
While Adam was cast as a Jewish character a few times, most notably in This Is Where I Leave You and BlacKkKlansman, he is not himself of Jewish heritage.
Adam’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced to John Driver, who was born, c. 1675, in Avening, England or Isle of Wight County, Virginia, to parents of English origin, Giles Driver and Olive Hardy.
Adam’s paternal grandfather was Kelly Potter Driver, Jr. (the son of Kelly Potter Driver, Sr. and Rosa/Rosie/Rose Bell Whiteside). Adam’s grandfather Kelly was born in Arkansas. Adam’s great-grandfather Kelly was the son of Miles/Milas Washington Driver and Sarah Elizabeth Johnson. Rosa was the daughter of Jacob Davis Whiteside and Eliza Ann Withers.
Adam’s paternal grandmother was Edith Mae Fisher (the daughter of Joe Guy Fisher, Sr. and Belva/Belvia/Belvie Yeager). Edith was born in Arkansas. Joe was the son of Walter S./W. Fisher and Mary Jane Quattlebaum. Belva was the daughter of Charles O. Yeager and Irene Almeda Favors.
Adam’s maternal grandfather was Ira Lee Needham (the son of Lester G. Needham and Gertrude Dykstra/Dexter). Ira Lee was born in Indiana. Lester was the son of Ira H. Needham and Flora Anna Harrington. Gertrude was born in Indiana, to Dutch parents, John H. Dykstra/Dexter and Jantje/Jennie F. Kuypers/Kipers. Gertrude had roots in Friesland.
Adam’s maternal grandmother was Dolores Lavone Pettit (the daughter of Theodore George Pettit and Florence Geneve/Geneva/Genieve Ullrich). Dolores was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and grew up on a farm in Battleground, Indiana. Theodore was the son of William Clayton Pettit and Cora Ethel Campbell. Florence was the daughter of Jacob Ullrich and Nellie Blanche Carpenter. Jacob was the son of a German father and an Irish mother.
Sources: Genealogies of Adam Driver – http://www.geni.com
https://www.geneastar.org
Adam’s paternal grandfather, Kelly Potter Driver, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Adam’s paternal grandfather, Kelly Potter Driver, Jr. – http://www.findagrave.com
Adam’s paternal grandmother, Edith Mae Fisher, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Adam’s paternal grandmother, Edith Mae (Fisher) Driver – https://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com
Obituary of Adam’s aunt (mother’s sister) – http://www.findagrave.com
Adam’s maternal grandfather, Ira Lee Needham, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Adam’s maternal grandmother, Dolores Lavone Pettit, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Adam’s maternal grandmother, Dolores Lavone (Pettit) Needham Riggs – https://www.palmerfuneralhomes.com
Adam’s maternal great-grandfather, Theodore George Pettit, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Adam’s maternal great-grandmother, Florence Geneve/Geneva/Genieve Ullrich, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
the reason some Russians look like Mongolians is because they were raped by the rubbish geghins khan (even so their Mongoloid ancestry is so negligible that it doesn’t even look like it) the same goes for Turks who can pass for white because they raped several white women in the empire Ottoman We never lower ourselves to those ugly people Even with so many Mongolian/Turkish/Asian invasions, the Euros kept their genetic pool practically intact.
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he looks so Turkish, he should never steal roles from iconic w
White men
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You guys seems to put much stock into ancient roots. What do you think of men like Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler being born from paternal haplogroups that originated in Africa, instead of Europe? The paternal group E, which they both apart of, started in East Africa probably at the Horn of Africa, then spread across North Africa, went up through the Levant, then to Anatolia, then settled in Europe of the course of thousands of years.
What should non-Europeans make of this? Were Napoleon and Hitler not Europeans by your standards? I’m not trying to joke or offend. I’m literally curious if they do, or do not, fit your criteria or specifications for European.
Hitler was a Germanic men with dark brown hair and blue eyes, completely White characteristics. You must be one of these crazy people who believe that Hitler had black blood and was the son of a Jewish woman. LMAO
Turks look like Mongolians, and remind us of Adam Driver who is obviously not white, yet he lives playing roles of white men
and the only reason some turks can pass as White is because of thousands of rapes during the ottoman empire
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“believe that Hitler had black blood and was the son of a Jewish woman”
No I don’t believe that. You didn’t address my question though. What do you think of Europeans with heritage not wholly rooted in Europe? Too far back to be concerning?
@passingtime
They have no idea what you are talking about.
@Andrew What South American country are you from? Colombia? Argentina? Chile?
@Urimnak
It’s possible that the out of Africa theory may be incorrect. Until it’s proven though, or something very compelling is discovered that throws the theory in serious doubt, genetically, then we have to accept it as the most accurate model for human evolution.
There are many examples of archeological and anthropological remains/evidence being discovered that challenge the accepted timeline of human migration patterns. But the genetic evidence has yet to refute our concept of haplogroup evolution and timeline and location of mutation. Every groups stems from an African so far. There are specific groups that specifically developed in Europe though. I(M170) paternal group is most likely are exclusively European in origin. Subclades of R1a have abundant ties to Europe, but appear in other places,but that’s probably due to migration and admixing, not origin. For maternal haplogroups I think U5 and U8 are attributed to development in Europe, and reverse migration for appearances in other areas, just like the paternal groups. But outside those all the other groups in Europe come from Africa, Central Asia, West Asia, South Asia etc.
Maybe we will find evidence to the contrary one day, but we haven’t so far.
I don’t believe in this theory and I think it’s absolutely ridiculous, not only me but also hundreds of other people You can repeat this a thousand times and it still won’t come true Believe what you want and I believe what I want
This theory that everyone came from Africa is absurdly ridiculous, absurd to extreme levels LMAO I think it’s much more likely to believe that white people came from Asians and underwent several mutations that made them so different and diverse from any other ethnic group I don’t believe in this theory at all
But anyway I believe that Europeans are their own thing, just like Asians and Africans
urimnak is absolutely correct in what he said
Time will tell.
time has already said: the theory of Africa is an ABSURD LIE
There’s no proof to your claim yet. The timeline is in question, but there’s no genetic proof yet, that homo sapiens developed anywhere except Africa. It’d be interesting if there was divergent evolution, but finding fossils of 4-6 million year old hominids, is extremely difficult, even remains several hundred thousand years old, are very difficult to find.
We have found more recent remains, that are closer to us genetically. In Georgia there were 1.8 million years old remains, in China the Yuanmou Man at about 1.7 million, in Israel 1.4 million years old, there’s some contention that the Java Man remains may have been over a 1 million years old.
In the Atapuerca mountain in Spain, there’s been a bunch of hominid remains found. There’s some teeth fragments in this area that are from a hominid dating back 1.2-1.4 million years old. Some of the more complete fragments in this area, are up to 850,000 years old, but they are in contention as to what species they actually are, but the oldest of them, are not proposed as human.
There’s Neanderthal remains in Belgium that may be 430,000 years old, we have 400,00 year old homo heidelbergensis remains in Britain. 200,000 year old Denisovan remains in Siberia, the list goes on. But none of them contended with the out Africa model. They all migrated from Africa and none of them were properly human.
There’s some Chinese research that claims there’s remains of hominids that are 2.12 million years old, found in Central China in Shangchen. If that’s accurate, those remains would be the earliest evidence of hominids outside the African continent, that modern research has ever discovered/unearthed.
The oldest proven human remains, that I know of, so far are from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco that are between 280-315,000 years old, the Florisbad site in South Africa, dating to about 259,000, Ethiopia Omo bones dated at about 233,000, the Greek Apidima Cave with remains 210,000, the list goes on and on. The Greek remains is is a good indicator that humans have been in Europe for a while, but it doesn’t confirm they developed there, nor is there evidence that it was anything but an African immigrant.
If researchers ever find remains that suggests humans, actual homo sapiens, developed in Europe or Asia, proven by DNA or morphological structure, predating all other discoveries, the entire world will hear about it. Archeologists are constantly searching for and finding new sites. If the proof still remains, and it wasn’t lost to time, it will be discovered and revealed at some point.
I say and repeat the theory of Africa is ridiculous and absurd It would be much easier to believe that white people overcame Asians and underwent several mutations until they were the way they are today.
came from*
You can say what you want, but it doesn’t make you correct. I’m not saying you’re incorrect though. I’m saying the evidence has not presented itself, that the out of Africa theory is incorrect. The theory still may be disproven, it just hasn’t been thus far.
I don’t believe in this theory and I think it’s absolutely ridiculous, not only me but also hundreds of other people You can repeat this a thousand times and it still won’t come true Believe what you want and I believe what I want….
What makes you disbelieve/reject the theory? What evidence is there thus far that puts the theory in contention for you?
@muricansareallmutts /”urimnak”
Non stavo parlando con te…
Looks half Asian
A test would show he has a high asian percentage I’m sure more than 40% he looks like a turkish
How the hell this man manages to steal roles from —— —– — is something I will never understand.
Why the hell was this censored????
Just seen the trailer of recent Coppola movie. Incredible how such unusual looking guy (he looks Central Asian as obvious it gets) can get such roles. Wondering who pushes him.
Adam’s gigantic deformed nose is quite typical of German ancestry, so is his dark eyes and jet black hair.
WTF
Germans are white.