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A ditch, in fact, that had been dug for her, on a hill, so that she looked shorter than the actor she was snogging. This was on a different film, the first but not the last time it happened. She was young, new to the game. We are talking over video chat, Driver from her family home in London, to which she has temporarily decamped after decades away in Los Angeles. She apologises for how nice she looks, the sort of apology that can only be made after a year in lockdown.

Driver speaks eloquently, confident enough to pause as long as it takes for the right word to come, freely swearing and roaring with laughter otherwise. Her year-old son, Henry, is having an online piano lesson, and their dog is being collected for a walk by a neighbour.

So I crossed my fingers behind my back. This notion of men having to remain powerful and be taller than a woman — why? That actor, by the way, was extremely powerful, no matter his height or whether I was taller than him. All you have to do is not obey the rules for a minute and just fucking get on with it, and it will change. Yet Driver knows only too well that change can come at a glacial pace, and can isolate those who fight for it. Her own journey through the film and TV industry has been a bumpy, sometimes brilliant, sometimes difficult one.

She was always different from others of her generation: hardly an outsider in terms of her background she was a boarder at the artsy private school Bedales, where she had access to a high standard of theatrical and musical training , but a breath of fresh air compared with the beaming blondes designed to please the male gaze.

Driver had bundles of brown curls, freckles, a different shape and a different edge to her personality. She was cool, she was funny, she drew you in rather than pouted at you.

I ask how you can keep that up, starting your career with such a huge, groundbreaking film and a best supporting actress Oscar nomination. The idea of maintaining, of being a movie star, for decades. I clearly did not have that.

I did not have the appetite. More recently, she has portrayed a drug-addicted traveller, straight out of jail, living a life of crime in the American south in The Riches. And then a middle-class British mother with a wheelchair-user son in the comedy Speechless there is a very funny episode featuring John Cleese as her dad.

She is a graduate of Barnard College and a mom of twins. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Share this —. Follow today. Now 50 years old, tall, willowy Driver has hardly aged a year, with her trademark long curly boon hair and sharp sense of humour. Having become a naturalised yank, she has long enjoyed her laid-back Malibu lifestyle, where she is a keen swimmer and horseback rider.

But after two decades of broken hearts — a broken engagement to Josh Brolin and a brief relationship with TV writer Timothy J. Working steadily over the last two decades, her most recent film project saw her reunite with Brosnan for the indie thriller Spinning Man. See More See Less. Comment on Facebook. Oh, the Places You'll Go set to get animated.