Minnie Driver or Amelia Fiona Jessica Driver or Amelia Fiona Jessica “Minnie” Driver is an English and American actress, singer, songwriter, voice artist, television actress, recording artist, and video game artist, who is best known for her work in cult classics like Grosse Pointe Blank and Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her acting in the Matt Damon and Robin Williams starrer Good Will Hunting. Driver also earned nominations for an Emmy and a Golden Globe award for the American television drama, The Riches.
Minnie Driver is also known as a reputable singer, who started her career by singing in her solo albums as well as in numerous animated series and movies like the SuperMansion and Tarzan and in video games like Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
Minnie Driver Wiki/biography
Minnie Driver was born on January 31, 1970, as Amelia Fiona Jessica Driver. She is currently 51 years old, as of 17 November 2021. Driver was sent to Bedales School in Hampshire as a boarder quite early in her life when she was around 6 years old after her parents were separated. She often went to Barbados when she was a child, to her father who moved there after the couple separated.
Driver was later enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, and then she started studying at Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington.
Family, Boyfriends & Relationships
Minnie Driver was born to Charles Ronald Driver (Ronnie Driver) and Gaynor Churchward (nee Millington). Her father was born in Swansea, Wales. Ronnie Driver earned the Distinguished Flying Medal for his role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and was a director of the London United Investments. He was of English and Scottish descent. On the other hand, Gaynor Churchward, her mother, was a fabric designer and former couture model.
Minnie Driver has an older sister Kate Driver, who works as a film producer and manager. “Minnie” was a nickname, which her older sister had given her that she decided to keep as her name. Minnie Driver also has one older half-sister from her father’s prior marriage named Susan Driver, and two younger half-brothers: Charlie Driver and Ed Churchward from Ronald’s and her mother’s subsequent marriages.
Minnie Driver was engaged briefly to Josh Brolin in 2001. She is currently engaged to Addison O’Dea, with whom she got engaged in 2019. Driver also has a son named Henry Story Driver, born 05 September 2008, from a brief relationship with television writer and producer Timothy J. Lea.
