Who Is Adam Driver's Wife? All About Joanne Tucker

Mar. 15, 2025

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Adam Driverand his wife, Joanne Tucker, are parents of two!

The pair met while attending Julliard and they tied the knot in 2013. In the years since, they co-foundedArts in the Armed Forces— a charity Tucker and Driver launched in 2006 to bring artistic experiences to the U.S. military community — and even shared the screen together in 2019’sThe Report.

Despite Driver and Tucker working in Hollywood, the pair are very private and rarely speak publicly about their relationship or family life.

“My job is to be a spy — to be in public and live life and have experience. But, when you feel like you’re the focus, it’s really hard to do that,” he toldThe New Yorkerin 2019.

Read on to learn more about Adam Driver’s wife, Joanne Tucker, and her relationship with the actor.

She’s an actress

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“I love putting myself in other people’s shoes and imagining their life from different perspectives,” she said of her craft in an interview withThe Royal Gazette.

She’s a former dancer

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Tucker also performed onstage in her youth as a ballerina. Her dancing career ended after she was rushed to the hospital with an illness while touring forThe Nutcracker. “I had a ‘come to Jesus’ moment,” she toldThe Royal Gazette. “I remember after that thinking I will pursue this acting thing because life is fragile.”

She was born in Bermuda

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Though Tucker’s family moved to Brooklyn, New York, at an early age, she was actually born in Bermuda and is the granddaughter of Sir Henry Tucker, the territory’s first government leader. She spoke about her roots toThe Royal Gazette, saying, “I spent my summers running around on the beach. It was a vivid sensorially important part of my upbringing.”

Bermuda was also the location of her and Driver’s 2013 wedding. “It’s one of those places that draws you back,” she said. “I got married there. I just love the people and the place.”

She and Adam met at Juilliard

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Tucker wasone of the few studentsaccepted into the drama program at Juilliard, graduating in 2009. In fact, that’s where she met Driver. “She read a lot of books, knew a lot of s—,” the former marine toldThe New Yorker. “She was very composed.”

Juilliard teacher Richard Feldman, who officiated their 2013 wedding, toldThe New Yorker, “She doesn’t take any nonsense.”

She and Driver have two children together

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The notoriously private couple share two children together, though they have managed to keep them out of the spotlight, and never publicly announced their first child’s birth for the first four years of his life.

After droppinga few hints, Driver finally addressed his dad status in hisopening monologueduring hisSaturday Night Livehosting appearance in 2020, telling the crowd, “I’m a husband. And a father. It’s in that order though. I’ve been very clear with my son about that, he’s second in everything.”

Driver subtly announced her birth during a dress rehearsal for his stint as a host onSaturday Night Live,perPage Six.

During an appearance onLive with Kelly & Marklater that month, Driver revealed that now that his daughter is 8 months old, he remembered “how much babies kinda suck.”

“Not a lot, not a lot, not a lot,” Driver said when hostMark Consuelosasked if he was getting any sleep. “But I’m remembering this time that I have to enjoy it more. This first time, it went too fast and I was so anxious for him to kind of develop so he could communicate and tell me what was wrong. And now I’m more patient with her. I’m trying to enjoy it more.”

She and Driver co-founded a charity together

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Together, Driver and Tucker co-founded Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit organization that brings free artistic programming to those in the military.

“We developed the format together based on our audition process for Juilliard, which is that you learn four monologues and are asked to do two to four of them in your audition,” Tucker toldVarietyin 2021. “For the military, it was exposure to a new means of communication, and for the arts community, it was realizing the military wasn’t only ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘MASH.’ "

She’s an avid runner

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While prepping for the 2019 TCSNew York City Marathon, Tucker revealed that she has been running for her entire adult life. “It’s my favorite way to explore and get my bearings in a new place and I’m passionate about it because it demands that your whole physical self participate,” she said in a quote on theAITAF Instagram page. “You can do it anywhere at no cost, and it provides dedicated time and space to think and reflect.”

That year, she ran the marathon for the AITAF team “to draw attention to Arts in the Armed Forces' mission and to celebrate having co-run an arts non-profit for the past 11 years.” While it was her first-ever marathon, she said, “In a way, starting and growing AITAF has been its own kind of marathon, similar to what I imagine it might be like to serve in the military.”

She regularly appears alongside Driver at red carpet events

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Tucker has accompanied Driver to everything from theOscarsto theGolden Globes. She also supports her husband at nearly all of his movie premieres and screenings.

In 2021, the couple were photographed on thered carpetat the New York City premiere ofThe House of Gucci, in which Driver stars as Maurizio Gucci. Then, in October 2023, Tucker and Driver attended a screening of the actor’s filmFerrariat the New York Film Festival.

She helped Driver adjust to life after the Marine Corps

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After spending a little over two years in the Marine Corps, Driver was medically discharged due to a motorbike injury, and he began attending Julliard. During his first semester, he had some trouble adjusting to his new environment.

“I made three people cry my first semester,” he toldBroadway.comin 2009. “I was used to a very aggressive way of talking to people. I would consider it having a discussion, but I guess others didn’t see it that way!”

Luckily, he met and began dating Tucker, whom he credits for helping him adjust to life in N.Y.C.

“She taught me what Gouda cheese is. And that you shouldn’t talk with your mouth full and spit on the sidewalk,” he joked.

source: people.com