Drew Barrymore
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Image:Drewbarrymorerwb.jpg Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer.
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Her family
She is the granddaughter of stage and movie actors John Barrymore widely regarded as his generation's greatest actor, and the film actress Dolores Costello. Barrymore is also 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).
Young career rise
Image:Drew barrymore in E.T..jpg 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..
Early troubles
Image:Playboy0195.jpg 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.
Overcoming substance abuse
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.
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Stability, continued fame
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.
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, 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.
Personal life
Image:Charlies Angels movie still.jpg 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 engaged to 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
- Barrymore was delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss (interview on The Tonight Show, January 22, 2003).
- She is a distant relative of Shirley Temple
- 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.
- On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. and near Godzilla's star. 1.
- Her favourite band is Cannibal Corpse .
Filmography
| Year | Film | Roles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Family Guy | Mrs. Lockhart | TV series; voice |
| Lucky You | Billie Offer | Post-production | |
| Curious George | Miss Maggie Dunlop | Voice | |
| 2005 | Fever Pitch | Lindsey Meeks | Also producer |
| Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | Herself | Voice | |
| 2004 | Ramones Raw | Documentary | |
| 50 First Dates | Lucy Whitmore | ||
| 2003 | Duplex | Nancy Kendricks | Also producer |
| 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 |
| Titan A.E. | Akima | voice | |
| Skipped Parts | Fantasy Girl | ||
| 1999 | Never Been Kissed | Josie Keller | 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 | |
| Waxwork II: Lost in Time | Vampire Victim #4 | ||
| 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
- {{{2|{{{name|Drew Barrymore}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database
- Timeline of events in Drew Barrymore's life
- Drew Smiles
- The Drew Barrymore Collective
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