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Minnie Driver Tells Her Younger Self to Date a Plumber, Not an Actor

Minnie Driver shared advice she wishes she could tell her younger self while reflecting on the film 'Good Will Hunting'

While Minnie Driver found critical success for her role in 1997’s Good Will Hunting, there’s one piece of love life advice she wishes she knew at the time. “Don’t date actors,” she shared on the Wednesday, June 12, episode of Today, prompting lots of laughter from cohosts Al Roker and Dylan Dreyer and guest host Jill Martin Brooks. Matt Damon and Minnie DriverSteve Granitz Archive 1/WireImageDriver welcomed her son Henry, 15, with her ex Timothy J. Lea and has been in a long-term relationship with writer and filmmaker Addison O’Dea since 2019.

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