Minnie Driver rose to prominence with her break-out role in 1995's Circle of Friends.
39 Facts About Minnie Driver
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Minnie Driver went on to star in a wide range of films including the cult classic Grosse Pointe Blank, Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting for which she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, the musical The Phantom of the Opera, Owning Mahowny, and providing the voice of Lady Eboshi in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke.
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Minnie Driver has starred in several miniseries in the UK including The Deep for BBC One.
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Minnie Driver has lent her voice to a variety of animated series and films including SuperMansion and Tarzan as well as video games including Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
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Amelia Fiona Jessica Minnie Driver was born in London and raised in Barbados until she was six.
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The nickname Minnie Driver was given to her by her older sister Kate in childhood.
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Minnie Driver's mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a fabric designer and former couture model.
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Minnie Driver's father, Charles Ronald Driver, was born in Swansea, Wales, and was of English and Scottish descent.
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Minnie Driver earned the Distinguished Flying Medal for his role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight and was a director of London United Investments.
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Minnie Driver's parents broke off their relationship when Minnie was six years old.
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Minnie Driver was sent to Bedales School in Hampshire as a boarder soon after.
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Minnie Driver later attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, and Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington, Central London.
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Minnie Driver's older sister Kate is a film producer and manager.
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Minnie Driver has one older half-sister, Susan Driver, from her father's prior marriage, and two younger half-brothers: Charlie Driver, a football agent, from Ronald's subsequent marriage, and Ed Churchward from her mother's subsequent one.
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Minnie Driver made her stage debut in 1991, supplementing her income by performing as a jazz vocalist and guitarist.
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Minnie Driver appeared in The Day Today, on British television, with comedian Steve Coogan and for satirist Armando Iannucci, and had small parts in Casualty, The House of Eliott, Lovejoy and Peak Practice.
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Minnie Driver gained broader public attention when she played the lead role in Circle of Friends in 1995, opposite Chris O'Donnell.
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Minnie Driver followed this with a minor role in GoldenEye, a supporting role in Sleepers, a leading role in Big Night, and as a co-star in Grosse Pointe Blank, opposite John Cusack.
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Minnie Driver played opposite Matt Damon as Skylar in the drama Good Will Hunting, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Minnie Driver was considered to play Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 film Titanic, but director James Cameron felt she was too old so Kate Winslet was cast instead.
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In 1998, Minnie Driver starred in Sandra Goldbacher's film The Governess.
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Minnie Driver has worked on several animated features, voicing Jane in Disney's 1999 version of Tarzan and Lady Eboshi in the 1999 English-dubbed release of the Japanese film Princess Mononoke.
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In March 2007, Minnie Driver made her return to television in the FX Network show The Riches.
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Minnie Driver was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
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Minnie Driver was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version.
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Minnie Driver appeared in the January 2010 episode of Modern Family entitled "Moon Landing".
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Minnie Driver starred in the television series The Deep and appeared in Conviction, in the comedy drama Barney's Version, winning a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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In October 2013, Minnie Driver started filming for The Crash which was released on 13 January 2017.
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Minnie Driver landed the lead role in the ABC sitcom Speechless, playing the mother of three children, one of whom has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.
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Minnie Driver collaborated on Bomb the Bass's album Clear, in 1994, as part of the outfit River.
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Minnie Driver was part of the Milo Roth Band, which received a recording contract when she was 19.
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In 2004, Minnie Driver was the supporting act for the Finn Brothers on the UK portion of their world tour.
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In 2004, Minnie Driver played Carlotta Giudicelli in Joel Schumacher's film The Phantom of the Opera, based on the musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Minnie Driver sang "Learn to be Lonely", an original song written for the film by Lloyd Webber.
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Minnie Driver released her second album, Seastories, in July 2007, featuring guest appearances by Ryan Adams, the Cardinals and Liz Phair.
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Minnie Driver released a third album in October 2014 called Ask Me to Dance that includes songs by Elliott Smith, Neil Young and The Killers.
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Minnie Driver has been in a relationship with Addison O'Dea since 2019.
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Minnie Driver was briefly engaged to Josh Brolin in 2001.
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Minnie Driver has a son was born on 5 September 2008 and from a brief relationship with television writer and producer Timothy J Lea.