VIDEO : Minnie Driver Speaks Up For 'Speechless'

"Speechless" Minnie Driver is no stranger to playing powerful, impassioned characters (see: About A Boy?s Fiona), but her latest role as Speechless matriarch Maya DiMeo ? a married mother of three, including a son with cerebral palsy ? is in a league of its own. The series, which is written and executive produced by Scott Silveri (Friends), begins with Maya relocating her brood to Orange County because the school there is able to provide an aide for her nonverbal son JJ (Micah Fowler.