Jeanette Driver

Jeanette Driver is a British actress. She recently played Nora Helmer in Ingmar Bergman's "Nora" at, The Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice CA, and received rave reviews. Her performanc ...Show More

Jeanette Driver is a British actress. She recently played Nora Helmer in Ingmar Bergman's "Nora" at, The Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice CA, and received rave reviews. Her performance was selected by Backstage West as One of the Most Outstanding Performances of 2012.Jeanette was born in Manchester, England, the middle child from a family of seven. Her father worked as a door to door salesman and her mother was a clothes machinist. Jeanette's passion for acting began at age eight, on a rainy Sunday afternoon while watching Jennifer Jones in "Duel in the Sun" on TV with her grandmother. As a teenager Jeanette worked on the weekends as an usherette at The Royal Exchange Theatre where she had the good fortune to be able to observe acclaimed and distinguished actors such as Tom Courtenay, Eleanor Bron, Liam Neeson, Janet Mcteer, among many others, perform again and again. She won a grant to study acting in London, during which, she supported herself by modeling and waitressing. For her graduation she wrote a play based on the life of Mata Hari in which she played the title role. On leaving she performed in theatre across the UK with such companies as The Young Vic's touring company and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre Company. Following appearances on British and French television Jeanette moved to Los Angeles. Hide