Like the characters she plays, Minnie Driver is a woman who’s hard to peg.

She was raised in Barbados, attended boarding school but was encouraged by her family and friends to become an actress.

At 37, she’s still a free spirit who loves to surf in the Southern California sun. She has turned down high-profile acting roles just so she can record a small acoustic CD in Nashville.

On her new series, the dark drama “The Riches,” she has traded her British accent for a hillbilly twang and her luscious hair for cornrows. She plays Delilah Malloy, a Deep South redneck who is also a drug addict ex-con and the mother in a family of grifters.

After her family accidentally kills a wealthy couple, she and her husband (played by British comedian Eddie Izzard, the show’s executive producer) assume the dead couple’s identity and live in their fabulous home. Each week, viewers wonder if the Malloys will be unmasked as not being the Riches.

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