Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is a British and American actress and singer.

She went on to star in a wide range of films including the cult classic Grosse Pointe Blank, Gus Van Sant's 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.

[8] He earned the Distinguished Flying Medal[7] for his role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight[9] and was a director of London United Investments.

[6] She later attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art,[12] and Collingham College in Kensington, Central London.

She appeared in The Day Today, on British television, with comedian Steve Coogan and for satirist 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, opposite Chris O'Donnell.

[18] That year, she co-starred opposite Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman in the action thriller Hard Rain.

Driver has also worked on several animated features, voicing Jane in Disney's 1999 version of Tarzan and Lady Eboshi in the 1999 English-dubbed release of the Japanese film Princess Mononoke.

[21] She also starred in the television series The Deep[22] and appeared in Conviction, in the comedy drama Barney's Version, winning a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress.

[24] Driver landed the lead role in the ABC sitcom Speechless, playing the mother of three children, one of whom has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.

[29] In 2004, Driver played Carlotta Giudicelli in Joel Schumacher's film The Phantom of the Opera, based on the musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Driver released her second album, Seastories, in July 2007, featuring guest appearances by Ryan Adams, the Cardinals and Liz Phair.

[30] Driver released a third album in October 2014 called Ask Me to Dance that includes songs by Elliott Smith, Neil Young and The Killers.