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Adam Driver’s Wife Secretly Gave Birth To Their Daughter—Inside Their Private Marriage

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Jason Pham
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As one of Hollywood’s current heartthrobs, it’s no surprise that fans want to know about Adam Driver’s wife, Joanne Tucker, what their private marriage is like.

Adam, who was born on November 19, 1983, in San Diego, California, became a household name after his breakout role as Adam Sackler in HBO’s dramedy, Girls. He went on to star as Kylo Ren, the grandson of Darth Vader, in the Star Wars franchise before his first Oscar nomination in 2018’s BlacKkKlansman. He earned a second Oscar nomination a year later in 2019’s, A Marriage Story. He’s

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In an interview with The Hot Corn in 2019, Adam talked about how he brought his “personal life” into his role in A Marriage Story, in which he starred as Charlie Barber, a stage director going through a heated divorce. “You always bring your personal life to all of your roles, it’s just this one is maybe more relatable than something like Star Wars,” he said. “It’s less obvious how you bring your personal things to it but I don’t work on at any different, you still have to break up into million pieces and solve those things and not really worry about what it adds up to, but I don’t think you necessarily had to have gone through a divorce or been a child of divorce to play that part.”

He continued, “However, it definitely makes homework easier where I was that exact age when my parents split up so you can’t help but look at that and you project things. Then again that doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be better because it’s not my job to have a feeling about what I’m doing rather it’s to convey a feeling for the audience. I don’t get so analytical about it, it just kind of comes up in the moment and then I forget about it.”

So who is Adam Driver’s wife, Joanne Tucker? Read on for what we know about Adam is married to and private details about his marriage he rarely shares.

Adam Driver Wife Joanne Tucker
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How did Adam Driver meet his wife?

How did Adam Driver meet his wife, Joanne Tucker? Adam and Joanne met while he was a student at the Juilliard School, a private performing arts conservatory in New York, which he graduated from in 2009. “She taught me what Gouda cheese is, and that you shouldn’t talk with your mouth full and spit on the sidewalk,” he told Broadway of the first time he met Joanne in a past interview.

Adam and Joanne got engaged in 2012 and married in 2013 in a secret wedding. Though there are no photos of the wedding, it’s rumored that Adam’s Girls co-star, Lena Dunham, and her then-boyfriend, Jack Antonoff, attended the ceremony. “They are very sweet together. They’ve been dating forever—years—and live together; [they’re] very comfortable and in love. She was with him before the Girls fame. They both love theatre and the arts. She respects him so much…Everyone on the show is very happy for them,” a source told Us Weekly at the time.