Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver
City, California) is an American film and television
actor and producer.
Her family
She is the granddaughter of stage and movie actor John
Barrymore, widely regarded as his generation's greatest
actor, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel
Barrymore. Her father, John Drew Barrymore, and half-brother,
John Blyth, are also actors (although they haven't experienced
the critical or commercial success the other Barrymores
have enjoyed). "Drew" was the maiden name
of her great-grandmother, Georgiana; "Blythe"
was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her
great-grandfather, Maurice. Drew's mother is Hungarian-born
actor and model, Ildiko Jaid Mako (born 1944).
Biography
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.
She performed in a skit where she revealed that she
had killed E.T..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,
Barrymore's godfather, 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.
Barrymore has continued to be a highly
bankable movie actress. 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, despite never
finishing high school. 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.
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, Barrymore was the subject of an offbeat
documentary, My Date with Drew (2003). 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. Through word of mouth,
the internet, and a six-degrees-of-separation style
of communication with Barrymore and her associates,
a date with Barrymore is eventually acquired. Barrymore
proved to be a good sport on the date, bringing a
video camera to the fan as a gift and finding humor
in the events.On February 3, 2004, she received a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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 as a teenager and
is still interested in women sexually
Trivia
Barrymore was delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father
of Heidi Fleiss (interview on The Tonight Show, January
22, 2003).
She is the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter
of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
She is the goddaughter of filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
She 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 (one has a banner with her mother's name,
Jaid, and the other has the name James--a tribute
to her then-boyfriend Jamie Walters).
She was the second ever guest on Late Night with Conan
O'Brien, appearing on the first show with John Goodman
and the late Tony Randall.
Filmography
Altered States (1980)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Firestarter (1984)
Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
Cat's Eye (1985)
See You in the Morning (1989)
Far from Home (1989)
Motorama (1991)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
Guncrazy (1992)
No Place to Hide (1993)
Doppelganger (1993)
Wayne's World 2 (1993) (Cameo)
Inside the Goldmine (1994)
Bad Girls (1994)
Boys on the Side (1995)
Mad Love (1995)
Batman Forever (1995)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Scream (1996)
Wishful Thinking (1997)
Best Men (1997)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Ever After (1998)
Home Fries (1998)
Never Been Kissed (1999) (also executive producer)
Skipped Parts (2000)
Titan A.E. (2000) (voice)
Charlie's Angels (2000) (also producer)
Donnie Darko (2001) (also executive producer)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) (Cameo)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (also producer)
Duplex (2003) (also producer)
50 First Dates (2004)
Ramones Raw (2004) (documentary)
Stewie Griffin The Untold Story (Herself, Voice)
Fever Pitch (2005) (also producer)
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