Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore
	File:Drewbarrymorerwb.jpg Drew Barrymore in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001).
Born	22 February, 1975; Culver City, USA
Occupation(s)	Film actor and producer

Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer.

Her family

She is the granddaughter of stage and movie actors John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, whose father Maurice Costello was an early American stage and film actor. She is the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello. Her father, John Drew Barrymore was an actor as is her half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore. "Drew" was the maiden name of her great-grandmother, Georgiana Drew; "Blythe" was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore. Drew's mother is Hungarian actress Jaid Barrymore.

Young career rise

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Drew Barrymore in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

Barrymore's career began at the age of 11 months, when she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared litigation, though Barrymore merely laughed the incident off.

She shot to fame as a child actor when she co-starred in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 7, on November 20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest ever guest host of the weekly TV program Saturday Night Live (an achievement that stands to this day). She performed in a skit where she revealed that she had killed E.T.

She also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for her role in the film Irreconcilable Differences.

Early troubles

In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured a notoriously troubled childhood, drinking alcoholic beverages by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore later described this early period of her life in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Though overcoming her substance abuse problems by the time she entered adulthood, Barrymore maintained her "bad girl" image, and in fact leveraged her new found role as a sex symbol to stage a career comeback in the 1990s, playing a teenage seductress in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of U.S. magazine Playboy.

Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of her Playboy appearance, with the pictures altered by his art department so that she appeared fully clothed.

At that time she had also appeared nude in her last five movies. During a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore shocked the normally unflappable host by climbing onto his desk and flashing her breasts at him (but with her back to the camera), as part of a dance for his birthday. She also modelled in a series of Guess? jeans advertisements during this time.

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Drew Barrymore on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995, immediately after notoriously flashing the host on-air for his birthday.

Continued fame

Barrymore has continued to be highly bankable. She is especially adept at romantic comedies; popular examples of her work include The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates. Though her playful sex appeal has undoubtedly helped her remain in the media spotlight, she has also established a substantial career behind the scenes. She has produced several films, including the highly successful Charlie's Angels movie adaptation and its sequel.

She has also recently explored more dramatic roles in movies such as Riding in Cars with Boys, where she played a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father (based on the real-life story of Beverly D'Onofrio), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and the cult favorite Donnie Darko, of which she was also the executive producer. Barrymore has started to receive more notice both as a serious actress and a savvy Hollywood "player", though without losing her reputation as a sex symbol and (occasional) hellraiser.

Barrymore's career makes for colorful copy. In the words of Yahoo! Movies:

Heir to a Hollywood dynasty, child star, prepubescent drug and alcohol abuser, teenage sexpot, and resurrected vessel of celluloid purity, Drew Barrymore is nothing if not the embodiment of the rise and fall of Hollywood fortunes, self-reinvention, and the healing powers of good PR.

More recently, she was the subject of an offbeat documentary, My Date with Drew (2005). In it, an aspiring filmmaker and lifelong Drew Barrymore fan uses his limited financial and social resources in an attempt to gain a date with Barrymore.

On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life

Barrymore was married to Welsh bartender turned bar owner, Jeremy Thomas, from March 20 to April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001). She is currently dating drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes.

Barrymore has also publicly declared herself to be bisexual, revealing that she had slept with many women (although naming no one as of yet publicly) as a teenager and is still interested in women sexually. [1]

Trivia

Delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss (The Tonight Show, January 22, 2003).
Never finished high school.
Distant relative of Shirley Temple ^{[citation needed]}
Godmother of Frances Bean Cobain.
Goddaughter of Steven Spielberg.
Has 6 tattoos: a crescent moon on her big toe, a cross with ivy on her lower leg, a butterfly on her stomach, a daisy on her hip, and 2 angels on her lower back with her mother's name on one, and James, a tribute to then-boyfriend Jamie Walters, on the other.
Posed as Marilyn Monroe on the cover of the September 1996 issue of John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s George
Second-ever guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, appearing with John Goodman and Tony Randall.
Offered the lead in Scream, but turned it down because she thought Casey would be more fun.
Fifth member of her family to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 1

Filmography

Year	Film	Roles	Notes
2006	Music and Lyrics By	Sophie Fisher	Filming
	Lucky You	Billie Offer	Post-production
	Curious George	Miss Maggie Dunlop	Voice
2005	Fever Pitch	Lindsey Meeks	Also producer
2005	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Herself	Voice
2004	Ramones Raw		Documentary
2004	50 First Dates	Lucy Whitmore
2003	Duplex	Nancy Kendricks	Also producer
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Dylan Sanders	Also producer
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Penny
2001	Riding in Cars with Boys	Beverly Donofrio
	Freddy Got Fingered	Mr. Davidson's receptionist	Cameo
	Donnie Darko	Karen Pomeroy	Also executive producer
2000	Charlie's Angels	Dylan Sanders	Also producer
	The Simpsons	Sophie, Krusty's daughter	TV series; voice
	Titan A.E.	Akima	voice
	Skipped Parts	Fantasy Girl
1999	Never Been Kissed	Josie Geller	Also executive producer
1998	Home Fries	Sally Jackson
	Ever After	Danielle De Barbarac
	The Wedding Singer	Julia Sullivan
1997	Best Men	Hope
1997	Wishful Thinking	Lena
1996	Scream	Casey Becker
1996	Everyone Says I Love You	Skylar Dandridge
1995	Batman Forever	Sugar
	Mad Love	Casey Roberts
	Boys on the Side	Holly Pulchik-Lincoln
1994	Bad Girls	Lilly Laronette
1994	Inside the Goldmine	Daisy
1993	Wayne's World 2	Bjergen Kjergen	Cameo
	Doppelganger	Holly Gooding
	No Place to Hide	Tinsel Hanley
1992	Guncrazy	Anita Minteer
1992	Poison Ivy	Ivy
1991	Motorama	Fantasy Girl
1989	Far from Home	Joleen Cox
1989	See You in the Morning	Cathy Goodman
1985	Cat's Eye	Our Girl, Amanda
1984	Irreconcilable Differences	Casey Brodsky
1984	Firestarter	Charlene "Charlie" McGee
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Gertie
1980	Altered States	Margaret Jessup

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