Minnie Driver was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Good Will Hunting in 1997, but who played the title role?
Minnie Driver 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
Minnie Driver You Think You Are?", in which she searched for information about her late father and found that he had a brother, Leslie, who became an actor in repertory theatre. On 11 October 2016, Driver said that she had been sexually assaulted at the age of 17 while on holiday in Greece. On 21 December 2017, Driver became an American citizen. Minnie Driver Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is an English American actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gus Van Sant's "Good Will Hunting" (1997) for her role as