Minnie Driver has been charming audiences with relatable roles and surprising characters for more than two decades. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and a Golden Globe, among many other honors.

In December, as sexual misconduct scandals spread from Hollywood to other halls of power, Minnie made international headlines when she called out Matt Damon, her former co-star, for saying women were unfairly conflating a range of misbehavior. She said he proved himself to be “utterly tone deaf” and “part of the problem.”

Minnie has appeared in some 40 films and is also an accomplished singer-songwriter, with three albums.  Now starring in “Speechless” as the irrepressible and indefatigable mother of a disabled child, Minnie is herself a mom to a son born in 2008.

Jodi Rudoren is an Associate Managing Editor of The New York Times, leading a strategic initiative to grow its global audience. She also oversees the company’s new gender initiative, which is aimed at engaging women readers around the world, and launched The #MeToo Moment, a pop-up newsletter, after the groundbreaking reporting about sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein and so many others.

Jodi has been a reporter and editor at The New York Times for 20 years, including stints as bureau chief in Jerusalem and Chicago and covering the 2004 American presidential campaign. She was executive producer of “One in 8 Million,” a multimedia project profiling New York characters that won nytimes.com’s first Emmy Award in 2009.