Up for auction "Good Will Hunting" Minnie Driver Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Amelia
Fiona Jessica "Minnie" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is a British-American actress, singer and songwriter. For her role as
Skylar in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, she was nominated for both the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Her other films include Grosse Pointe Blank; The Phantom
of the Opera; and her breakout role in 1995, Circle of Friends.
In television, Driver starred with Eddie Izzard in the cult classic The Riches on FX for which she was nominated for both
an Emmy and a Golden Globe. She has
starred in the ABC sitcom Speechless; the NBC sitcom About a Boy; and in a
recurring role in the NBC series Will & Grace. She has also starred in several
miniseries in the UK including The Deep for BBC One. Predating her work as an actress, Driver started as a
recording artist and has released three full solo albums over the span of her
career. She has also lent her voice to a variety of animated series and films
including SuperMansion, Tarzan; and Princess Mononoke as well as video games
including Jurassic Park: Trespasser for DreamWorks Interactive and Electronic Arts. Amelia Fiona Jessica Driver was born in London. The nickname Minnie was given to her by her
older sister Kate Driver. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward (née Millington),
was a fabric designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald Driver, was
born in Swansea, Wales, of English and Scottish descent; he
earned the Distinguished Flying Medal for
his role in the Battle of
Heligoland Bight and was a director of London United Investments.
Her parents never married, as her father was married to another woman
throughout his relationship with Minnie's mother. Her parents separated when
Minnie was six years old. She was sent to Bedales School in Hampshire as a boarder soon after. Ronald Driver
moved to Barbados where Minnie spent her school holidays. She
later attended the Webber
Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art Collingham College, an
independent college in Kensington. Minnie's older sister Kate is
a film producer and manager. She also has two younger half-brothers: Charlie
Driver from her father's subsequent marriage, and Ed Churchward from her
mother's subsequent marriage. Driver's television debut was in a 1991 TV
advertisement for Right Guard deodorant Driver
also made her stage debut in 1991, supplementing her income by performing as a
jazz vocalist and guitarist. She appeared on British television with
comedians Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci, and had small parts in Casualty, The House of Eliott, Lovejoy and Peak Practice. Driver gained broader public attention when
she played the lead role in Circle of Friends in
1995. She followed this with supporting roles in GoldenEye (1995), Sleepers (1996), Big Night (1996) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).
She played opposite Matt Damon as Skylar
in the drama Good Will Hunting (1997),
for which she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 1998, Driver starred in Sandra Goldbacher's film The Governess. That same year, she co-starred opposite Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman in the action thriller Hard Rain. Driver has also 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. In 2003 and 2004, she had a recurring
role on Will & Grace as Lorraine Finster, the nemesis of Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) and daughter of Karen's lover, Lyle Finster (John Cleese). In March 2007, Driver made her return to
television in the FX Network show The Riches. She was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as
Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007 and 2008, respectively. She
was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie,
although her appearance was cut from the final version. Driver appeared in the
January 2010 episode of Modern Family entitled "Moon Landing". She
also 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. In
October 2013, Driver started filming for The Crash, released
13 January 2017. 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. The series debuted
in the 2016–17 TV season. It was cancelled in May 2019 after three seasons.