Sly! Minnie Driver, 46, reveals she started dating Neville Wakefield after running into him on the beach when she was on a date with another man 

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Minnie Driver found love on a date, just not with her date.

The Speechless beauty revealed during an interview with The Talk on Wednesday that she ran into her old friend Neville Wakefield when on a blind date.

The blind date didn't work out, but she ended up getting closer to Neville, who is now her boyfriend of two years. 

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Serendipitous: Minnie Driver, 46, said on The Talk Wednesday that she crossed paths with her beau Neville Wakefield while she was out on a date with someone else

Dishing: The actress was on the CBS talk show to promote her new ABC comedy Speechless

Hunting for love: The Oscar-nominated beauty had previously known her current boyfriend when she was 18. The couple looked amazing at a 2015 NYC Fashion Week event

The star, 46, told the panelists of the CBS daytime chat-fest that she and her date 'went for a walk on the beach and [she] knew it wasn't gonna work out, so [she] said, "Shall we sit down?"'

She continued, 'We were sitting there and I saw somebody walk by and I recognized him from the back of his head, and it was this guy that I've known since I was 17-years-old and I called out his name, and it was him, and we went out together.'

Driver said she and Wakefield - one of her 'great friends' when she was 18 - 'hadn't seen each other in about 10 years' when they crossed paths on the serendipitous sand.

'We went out for dinner and that was that,' she said of Neville, a 53-year-old art writer and curator.

Fate: Minnie said she's comforted in that her father, who died in 2009, was extremely fond of her current beau

Casual fun: The duo seemed very much in love as they strolled through Malibu in June 

Driver said her romance with Wakefield presented something of a silver lining in another sense, as she always regretted that her late father, Charles Ronald Driver, would not get to meet the man she fell in love with in the wake of his death in 2009.

'I was always sad that my dad was never gonna know the guy I would end up with because he passed away,' she said, 'but dad loved Neville.'

Prior to Neville, the charming English star had dated a string of A-list actors, among them Matt Damon, John Cusack, Harrison Ford and Josh Brolin, who she was engaged to.

Decisions: In the chat, Minnie (left, with The Talk's Sharon Osbourne) said that music was her first career calling, but her success in the movies paved a more cinematic path for her to take

The search for love: Prior to Neville, Minnie, seen here in Hollywood in April, dated Hollywood actors such as Matt Damon, John Cusack and Harrison Ford

Minnie, in a February 2012 interview with The Guardian, said that her love life had once caught up with her in a humorous way as she took a drive through Hollywood, noticing a string of exes sprouting up on street advertisements for TV shows and movies.

'There was one time I realized I'd s****** a whole billboard!' she said. 'My sister pointed it out when we were driving past and we laughed so hard. But oh, that's so … I'm being so naughty.'

In her segment on The Talk, the Oscar-nominated stunner said she initially got into show business as a musician, but the success of her acting career - buoyed by parts in films such as Sleepers and Grosse Pointe Blank, prior to her breakout role in Good Will Hunting - took her on a different path.

Fall fun: The actress stars in the new ABC sitcom Speechless, which has debuted to strong reviews

'The films blew up and some sane adult said, "You should really go with the flow of what's happening, you know you should go down the path of least resistance - don't just dig your feet in and say you've got to do this, because you'll always do this anyway,"' Driver said.

The charismatic British beauty said that advice was on the money, as she 'never stopped playing music' even though she took a different career path. (In 2004, Minnie released an album titled, Everything I've Got in My Pocket, and the titular single charted in the U.K.)

'It's just that my job became something else,' said the star, who has a son named Henry, aged seven years, with ex Timothy J. Lea. 'I really love acting, it's fun and great and awesome and I've made a really good living at it for a long time - so it really worked out.'

Minnie's new show Speechless airs on ABC Wednesdays at 8:30/7:30c.