Minnie Driver ’s happily ever after looks a little different than she envisioned. During a July 2024 interview with The Sunday Times , Driver recalled “longing to be married” for years to make up for the impact her parents’ split had on her. The actress found out when she was 12 that her parents broke up because her father was married to another woman and had a secret second family.
“If I look at my history, what it did was make me want to be married so much, and then choose men who were so not the right men to be married to,” Driver told the outlet. Despite her previous dreams of matrimony, Driver has no plans to marry boyfriend Addison O’Dea , whom she began dating in 2018. “Now I’m with someone who doesn’t want to get married, but who is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary [person],” she said.
“Everything I could have wanted in my childhood idea of a husband, he actually is.” Keep scrolling for a look at Driver’s dating history over the years: Driver briefly dated Cusack after meeting him on the set of their 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank . Matt Damon Driver fell for another costar while filming the 1997 drama Good Will Hunting .
She and Damon, who starred in and cowrote the film, dated from 1997 to 1998. Weeks after Damon publicly proclaimed that he was “single” on a talk show in 1998, the exes reunited at the 70th Academy Awards, where Damon and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Driver looked forlorn as Damon and A.