Minnie Driver

Minnie Driver

Minnie Driver (Amelia Fiona Jessica Driver) was born on January 31st, 1970 and is currently 56 years old. Minnie Driver was born in London, England. Driver attended Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Minnie Driver is a British and American singer and actress. She rose to prominence with her breakout role in Circle of Friends.

Minnie went on to star in a wide variety of films, which include Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting (for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Owning Mahowny, Grosse Pointe Blank (a cult classic), and The Phantom of the Opera (a musical).

Before working as an actress, she was a singer. Minnie has released three solo albums throughout her career. She started making music while at boarding school. She collaborated on Bomb the Bass’ Clear album. She was part of the Milo Roth Band, which got a recording contract when she was 19. She signed with EMI and Rounder Records and performed at the SXSW music festival.

Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket, off her debut album of the same name, hit No. 34 in the UK, and the song “Invisible Girl” peaked at 68. Minnie penned 10 out of the 11 songs on the album.

She’s also lent her voice to a variety of animated movies and series, including Tarzan and SuperMansion, and video games, including Jurassic Park: Trespasser.

Minnie made her acting debut in 1991 in a TV ad for Right Guard deodorant. She made her stage debut that same year, supplementing her income by performing as a jazz guitarist and vocalist.

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays is a poignant, charming, and mesmerizing memoir in essay form from Minnie Driver, chronicling the way that life works out even when it doesn’t.

In a beautifully crafted and intimate collection, Minnie writes and narrates with candor and disarming charm about her bohemian upbringing between Barbados and England, as well as her post-university triumphs and travails. From being the one student in her acting school that wasn’t taken on by an agent to getting discovered at a rave in this muddy field that was held in the English countryside; shooting to fame in one of the most influential films of the whole 1990s and getting an Academy Award nomination; and finding the true light of her life, in her son. Minnie chronicles her unconventional career path, including the time that she gave up on acting entirely to sell jeans in Uruguay, her journey as a single mom, and the heartbreaking loss of her mom.

Minnie writes with grace and razor-sharp humor while navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable grief. Deeply funny, personal, effortlessly charming, and honest, this book reminds us of the way that life works out, even when it doesn’t.

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