MINNIE DRIVER
Minnie
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Biography- Minnie
Driver Continued
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In her next film outing, Driver
fulfilled to a certain degree one of her long-cherished dreams, a dream
held by many an impressionable young woman: dancing naked in the opening
credits of a James Bond flick. ("You know . . . doing all the
woo-woo dancing.") Whittled back down from studiously sturdy to
Bond-girl svelte, she tackled the role of Goldeneye's Russian
country-western lounge singer Eyed ever more appreciatively by both
Hollywood and the British film industry, Driver skipped across the
Atlantic to appear in the Robert De Niro-Brad Pitt- |
| Biography- Minnie Driver Educated at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Driver found stage work and jobs in British television almost immediately after completing her drama degree in 1991. In addition to her career in what she calls "the grand tradition of crappy TV," she also plied her considerable talents as a jazz vocalist and guitarist at various London clubs in an effort to make ends meet. Highlights of the next several years included a sizeable role as "the other woman" in the excellent 1995 BBC mini-series The Politician's Wife, and her own series, My Good Friend. Not exactly inundated with offers, and certainly not one to sit and wait for the phone to ring, the statuesque and uniquely beautiful actress lobbied strenuously for and won the role of Benny, the frumpy Irish heroine of director Pat O'Connor's adaptation of Maeve Binchy's autobiographical novel, Circle of Friends. Landing the role was a mixed blessing: though she was to co-star opposite hunky teen dream American actor Chris O'Donnell in the ingenuous coming-of-age film, O'Connor insisted that Driver gain over twenty pounds to be more believable as the lumpish, homely lead. Fattening herself into a butterball was well worth it in the end, as Circle of Friends became a sleeper hit, and the luminous Ms. Driver, the most sought-after British import since the MG Midget. | ||
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