Minnie Driver
Birthplace: Marylebone
Born: 1970-01-31
Occupations recorded in source
actor; film actor; musician; singer; singer-songwriter; television actor; voice actor
Biography from Wikipedia
Amelia Fiona Jessica "Minnie" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is a British and American actress and singer. She rose to prominence with her break-out role in the 1995 film Circle of Friends. She went on to star in a wide range of films, including the cult classic Grosse Pointe Blank; 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; and Owning Mahowny. She also provided the voice of Lady Eboshi in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke.
In television, Driver starred with Suzy Eddie Izzard in The Riches, for which she was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe. She starred in the ABC sitcom Speechless, the NBC sitcom About a Boy and had a recurring role in the NBC series Will & Grace. She has also starred in several British dramas, including The Deep for BBC One.
Before she began working as an actress, Driver was a singer; she has released three full solo albums in the course of her career. She has also lent her voice to a variety of animated series and films, including SuperMansion and Tarzan, and video games, including Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Wikipedia · revision 1379564885
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Circle of Friends (1995) — Bernadette "Benny" Hogan
- GoldenEye (1995) — Irina
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.
