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Jul 2023
5m 56s

Minnie Driver

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Actor and musician Minnie Driver's breakout film roles include Circle of Friends, Grosse Pointe Blank and the hugely successful 1997 movie, Good Will Hunting, for which she was Oscar nominated.

You may have recently seen her in the movies Cinderella or Chevalier - and on TV in the US sitcom Speechless or in Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck here on the BBC.

Minnie’s side-hustles are equally successful, she’s a podcaster, essayist and memoirist with her ‘tell most memoir’ Managing Expectations; which is a collection of essays about her life.

She lives in California and is a passionate surfer and a doting mother to her teenage son Henry

We asked mellifluous Minnie to share her Inheritance Tracks with us...

Inherited: Save Your Love for Me by Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley Passing on: Have You Ever Seen The Rain? by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Producers: Ben Mitchell and Catherine Powell

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