Minnie Driver first came to the attention of audiences and critics alike in 1995 for her performance as Bernadette 'Benny' Hogan in Circle of Friends, starring opposite Chris O’Donnell. She earned Oscar and Screen Actors Guild nomination in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her performance in Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting. In March 1998, Driver was honored with the Female Star of Tomorrow Award at ShoWest.
In 2003, Driver appeared at London’s Comedy Theatre with Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria in David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago, a play that broke the record for the largest box office advance for a West End show. Also in 2003, Driver co-starred with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the dark comedy Owning Mahowny, directed by Richard Kwietniowski.

In the 2003-2004, Driver made several guest appearances on NBC’s television series Will & Grace as “Lorraine Finster.” Recently, Driver can be seen in the independent film Virgin of Juarez, also starringes Esai Morales and Jane Lynch and in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera as Carlotta.

Driver’s more popular roles include Debi Newberry dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank; Grace Briggs in the love story Return To Me; Miss Mabel Chiltern in the feature version of Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband, co-staring with Cate Blanchett, Rupert Everett and Julianne Moore; and as the voice of Jane in the Walt Disney animated feature Tarzan. Her additional film credits include High Heels and Low Lifes directed by Mel Smith, The Governess, Beautiful, directed by Sally Field and co-produced by Two Drivers Productions (the company Driver formed with her sister Kate), Big Night, directed by Stanley Tucci, Hope Springs, Ella Enchanted starring Anne Hathaway, Sleepers, alongside Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt and Dustin Hoffman and directed by Barry Levinson and the James Bond thriller Goldeneye.

She has been involved in numerous projects for the BBC and theatrical productions of The Comedy of Errors, The Married Man, School for Scandal and Camino Real.

On a personal level, Driver is a spokesperson for the international fair trade agency OXFAM and, in early 2004, she traveled to Cambodia and Thailand to bring attention to how backward practices of the garment industry affect the poverty stricken workforce. Her other involvements include Facing Forward, a charity organization founded by former model Louise Ashby, which raises funds for corrective surgery for children with facial deformities.

Currently residing in Los Angeles (with a home also in London), Driver is also an accomplished singer and songwriter and released her debut album, Everything I’ve Got In My Pocket, in September 2004.