Minnie Driver touches her belly as she announces to talk show host Jay Leno that she is pregnant with her first child. LOS ANGELES - Actress Minnie Driver, who stars as the matriarch in a family of itinerant grifters on the US television show The Riches has revealed she is pregnant with her first child. The British actress was a guest on NBC’s late-night talk show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , and when Leno asked her if she is expecting a baby, Driver answered “yes. Driver first gained fame in the 1990s on British television, and later acted in Hollywood movies such as Grosse Pointe Blank and Return to Me . The Riches , which airs on cable TV channel FX, follows a family of con artists that tries to go straight by posing as a suburban family whose identity they assume. Driver earned an Emmy nomination last year for her role as the mother of the clan, Dahlia Malloy, opposite series star Eddie Izzard. read more

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