10 June 2008
Young Filmmaker - Minnie Driver
Born in London in 1970, Minnie Driver spent part of her childhood in Barbados. She was educated in England and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Driver started with a music career, switched primarily to acting for a while, and now balances the two. Her music credits include both singer and songwriter. Her film work includes Circle of Friends, Return to Me, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Phantom of the Opera, and Good Will Hunting, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. She had a recurring role on the television series Will and Grace, and in 2007 she began a new series, The Riches, on the FX cable channel. Driver has lent her voice to several animated films, including The Simpsons Movie, due out in 2007. She received producer credits for the 1998 film At Sachem Farm (released in 2001) and the upcoming Ripple Effect, in which she costars with a cast that includes Forest Whitaker and Virginia Madsen.
From the June 2007 edition of eJournal USA.
