After a long hiatus from television, Minnie Driver made a big comeback in 2007 as Dahlia Malloy, the erratic recovering addict wife of Eddie Izzard’s Wayne Malloy. According to her IMDb, Driver’s fantastic performance on the show earned her two major recognitions — an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series in 2007 and a Golden Globes nominations for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2008.
Despite that recognition, for Driver, portraying Dahlia came with its own challenges. “I think I just get so emotionally wound up by this character, by where she’s coming from, where she’s so high octane, 99% of the time. It can become super inflammatory -you know she’s just a huge character and I definitely get exhausted, but also get very over emotional, which is a challenge,” she once admitted to Movie Web in an interview. “You kind of exhaust yourself and exhaust the people around you as well.”
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While “The Riches” was eventually canceled, the Will & Grace” star landed more television roles in subsequent years. In December 2009, the BBC announced that Driver would appear in “The Deep,” a BBC One miniseries slated for release the following year. Similarly, in 2016, the veteran actor was cast as Maya Dimeo in the ABC family drama “Speechless.”
