- Matt Damon Dumps Minnie Driver On Oprah
- Matt Damon Dumps Minnie Driver On Oprah
- Minnie Driver Dated Matt Damon
- Matt Damon Dumped Minnie Driver
- Matt Damon Dumps Minnie Driver On Oprah Show
Matt Damon Apologizes for Comments About Sexual Harassment: I Should ‘Close My Mouth for a While’ (Video). Minnie Driver Takes Down Matt Damon. Petition to Dump Matt Damon’s ‘Ocean. Minnie Driver, born January 31st, 1971, was born in London, but raised until the age of seven in Barbados, with two brothers and two sisters. Following the separation of her parents, Minnie (real name Amelia), moved to Hampshire, to attend boarding school.
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Overview (3)
Born | in Middlesex Hospital, London, England, UK |
Birth Name | Amelia Fiona J. Driver |
Height | 5' 10' (1.78 m) |
Mini Bio (1)
Amelia Fiona J. Driver was born January 31, 1970 in Finsbury Park, London. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward (née Millington), was a designer and former couture model, and her father, Charles Ronald 'Ronnie' Driver, was a businessman. She has a sister, Kate Driver, who is a model and a producer. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress. Minnie's father's wife did not know about his second family. Her father was born in Swansea, Wales, of English, Scottish, and Irish descent, and her mother is English. Minnie was raised partly in Barbados.
Her first major role was in the film Circle of Friends - Im Kreis der Freunde (1995)opposite Chris O'Donnell and Colin Firth. In the next few years she had roles in films such has GoldenEye (1995), Sleepers (1996) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). In 1997 she starred in the popular and financially successful film Good Will Hunting (1997) opposite Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also wrote the screenplay for the film and received Oscars for their achievement. The film also earned Minnie an Oscar nomination for best actress in a supporting role.
She had a noted recurring role on Will & Grace (1998) in 2003-2004 and also appeared in films such as An Ideal Husband (1999), Return to Me (2000), Owning Mahowny (2003), Ella Enchanted (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Delirious (2006) and Take (2007). She starred in the popular Tv-series The Riches (2007) opposite Eddie Izzard. She now stars in the NBC sitcom, 'About a Boy' (2014)
Minnie has been romantically linked with several of her co-stars, including Matt Damon and John Cusack. She was engaged to marry Josh Brolin before they broke up suddenly in 2001. In the last few years she has kept her private life, private. On March 13, 2008, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), she announced that she was expecting her first child. On September 5, 2008, she gave birth to a boy named Henry Story Driver. The name of the baby's father has not been revealed.
Her first major role was in the film Circle of Friends - Im Kreis der Freunde (1995)opposite Chris O'Donnell and Colin Firth. In the next few years she had roles in films such has GoldenEye (1995), Sleepers (1996) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). In 1997 she starred in the popular and financially successful film Good Will Hunting (1997) opposite Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also wrote the screenplay for the film and received Oscars for their achievement. The film also earned Minnie an Oscar nomination for best actress in a supporting role.
She had a noted recurring role on Will & Grace (1998) in 2003-2004 and also appeared in films such as An Ideal Husband (1999), Return to Me (2000), Owning Mahowny (2003), Ella Enchanted (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Delirious (2006) and Take (2007). She starred in the popular Tv-series The Riches (2007) opposite Eddie Izzard. She now stars in the NBC sitcom, 'About a Boy' (2014)
Minnie has been romantically linked with several of her co-stars, including Matt Damon and John Cusack. She was engaged to marry Josh Brolin before they broke up suddenly in 2001. In the last few years she has kept her private life, private. On March 13, 2008, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), she announced that she was expecting her first child. On September 5, 2008, she gave birth to a boy named Henry Story Driver. The name of the baby's father has not been revealed.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: A.G.
Trivia (27)
Matt Damon Dumps Minnie Driver On Oprah
Attended finishing schools in Paris and Grenoble.
Her sister, Kate Driver, is a model and producer.
Had her appendix removed. [August 2000]
Officially announced her engagement to boyfriend, actor Josh Brolin. [April 2001]
Announced she and Josh Brolin had broken up. [October 2001]
Claims that one of the reasons why she and ex-fiance Josh Brolin broke-up is due to Brolin's step-mother, Barbra Streisand, constantly trying to take charge of her wedding.
Completed her debut album, 'Everything I've Got In My Pocket' (2004)
Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Elizabeth Knowelden, Terence Stamp, Julia Ormond, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Sue Johnston, Hugh Bonneville and Julian Fellowes.
She was inspired to act after being bowled over by Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice (1982).
During her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), she described her place of dwelling as a 'modular' home by the beach in Los Angeles, CA. She used the word 'modular' despite Jay Leno's attempts at correcting her to say 'trailer'.
She is an avid surfer (hence living by the beach) as revealed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992).
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Recorded dialogue for a scene in The Simpsons Movie (2007). Her scene was ultimately cut from the film.
Announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) on March 13, 2008 that she is pregnant with her first child.
Gave birth to first child, a boy named Henry Story Driver, on September 5, 2008. He weighed 9 lbs. 12 oz.
Did not return to work until five months after giving birth to her son Henry, in order to begin filming Conviction (2010).
Daughter of Gaynor Churchward and Ronnie Driver.
Matt Damon Dumps Minnie Driver On Oprah
Performing 'Sexual Perversity In Chicago' alongside Matthew Perry, Hank Azaria and Kelly Reilly in London's Comedy Theatre. [July 2003]
Father of her son Henry is Timothy J. Lea. His identity as the father of Driver's son remained a secret until 2012, when Driver opened up about the identity of the father of Henry. Driver and Lea, who dated for a short time in 2009, weren't dating anymore during Driver's pregnancy and Lea wasn't involved much in his son's upbringing.
Gave birth to her son Henry naturally at home after enduring a 25-hour labor.
Her half uncle Leslie Driver was a stage actor in repertory theatres under the name of Leslie Stancliffe. He died in 1947 age 38.
Her father was a front gunner in bombers early in WWII and was awarded the DFM for saving some of his crew when they were shot down and crashed in the sea.
Personal Quotes (3)
People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'
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Visiting factories in Cambodia: 'Every time companies squeeze to get lower production costs, faster production, it's nobody but the working women who suffer and their families back at home.'
I box as a sport, but I'd never box with a man. I'm not afraid of getting hurt. Quite the opposite: I'm afraid I'd get carried away and hurt the guy.
Minnie Driver Dated Matt Damon
When dozens of women first began to come forward with allegations that film mogul Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed them, Matt Damon was in the midst of his press tour for Suburbicon, along with George Clooney. The two actors addressed the allegations at the film’s premiere, with Damon predicting a paradigm shift. “I really do believe there is going to be major change . . . There won’t be this type of behavior anymore,” he said at the time. He went on to proffer himself as an ally to women, saying, “I like to feel that . . . women have always felt safe in the environments I’ve worked in.”
Matt Damon Dumped Minnie Driver
His and Clooney’s transparency on the topic was largely viewed in a positive light, but an interview Damon gave this week was less well received. “I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior,” he toldABC News’s Peter Travers in regards to sexual misconduct. “And we’re going to have to figure—you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?”
“On this end of the continuum where you have rape and child molestation or whatever, you know, that’s prison. Right?” he continued. “And that’s what needs to happen. O.K.? And then we can talk about rehabilitation and everything else. That’s criminal behavior, and it needs to be dealt with that way. The other stuff is just kind of shameful and gross.”
His responses sparked a lot of side-eyeing online, most notably from Alyssa Milano and Damon’s former girlfriend Minnie Driver, who took the actor to task for his comments. On Friday night, Milano tweeted, “Dear Matt Damon, It’s the micro that makes the macro,” before launching into an explanation of why even the smallest of inappropriate behaviors is part of a larger system of harassment and subjugation.
Driver also had her say on the matter, calling Damon’s comments “bollocks” and tweeting that he was “tone deaf” and “systematically part of the problem.”
Matt Damon Dumps Minnie Driver On Oprah Show
In his interview, Damon discussed a number of men who have been accused of sexual misconduct over the past few months, including Kevin Spacey,Louis C.K.,Al Franken, and Harvey Weinstein. About Weinstein, he remained somewhat cagey: “Nobody who made movies for him knew . . . Any human being would have put a stop to that, no matter who he was,” he said. “They would’ve said absolutely no. You know what I mean? . . . I knew I wouldn’t want him married to anyone close to me. But that was the extent of what we knew, you know? And that wasn’t a surprise to anybody. So when you hear Harvey this, Harvey that—I mean, look at the guy. Of course he’s a womanizer . . . I mean, I don’t hang out with him.” Weinstein has been accused by over 50 women of various forms of sexual misconduct, harassment, and assault; he continues to deny the allegations.