Drew Barrymore
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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
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.
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. Maxim magazine featured Barrymore and her fellow Angels in their [Girls of Maxim] gallery.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.
On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- See also: 2004 in film
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.
- For more details on this topic, see Tom_Green#Marriage_to_Drew_Barrymore.
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 #redirect
- 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 |
| Herself | Voice | ||
| 2004 | Ramones Raw | Documentary | |
| 50 First Dates | Lucy Whitmore | ||
| 2003 | Duplex | Nancy Kendricks | Also producer |
| 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 | |
| Wishful Thinking | Lena | ||
| 1996 | Scream | Casey Becker | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Poison Ivy | Ivy | ||
| 1991 | Motorama | Fantasy Girl | |
| 1989 | Far from Home | Joleen Cox | |
| See You in the Morning | Cathy Goodman | ||
| 1985 | Cat's Eye | Our Girl, Amanda | |
| 1984 | Irreconcilable Differences | Casey Brodsky | |
| Firestarter | Charlene "Charlie" McGee | ||
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Gertie | |
| 1980 | Altered States | Margaret Jessup |
See also
External links
- [}}}] at [Yahoo! Movies]
- [Timeline of events in Drew Barrymore's life]
- [Drew Smiles]
- [Angel Drew]
- [The Drew Barrymore Collective]
- [Drew Barrymore Web]
- [Drew Barrymore at FilmReference.com]
- [Beautiful Drew Barrymore]
- [Drew Barrymore Videos]
- [When Young Stars Burn Out] MSN Movies
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