Drew Barrymore

Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an 
American film and television actress and producer through her production company Flower Films.
==Family==
Her paternal great-great grandparents were John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew. Her paternal grandparents were John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, whose father Maurice Costello was an actor. She is the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Helene Costello, and the great grandniece of John Drew, Jr., actress Louisa Drew, and silent film actor/writer/director Sidney Drew. Her father John Drew Barrymore was an actor. Her half-brother John Blyth Barrymore is an actor. Her mother, the Hungarian-American Jaid Barrymore has also acted.
Her first name Drew was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgiana Drew; her middle name Blyth was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.
Her career began at the age 11 months when she auditioned for a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared she'd cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job.
She shot to fame 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 Saturday Night Live. She performed in a skit where she revealed that she killed E.T. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences.
In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured a notoriously troubled childhood, drinking alcohol by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore later described this period of her life in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.
Though overcoming her substance abuse problems by the time she entered adulthood, she maintained her "bad girl" image, and leveraged her new-found role as a sex symbol to stage a career comeback playing a teenage seductress in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of 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 him (but with her back to the camera) for his birthday. She also modelled in a series of Guess? jeans ads during this time.
== Continued Fame ==
Barrymore has continued to be highly bankable. She is especially adept at romantic comedies: The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates. She has also produced several films, including Charlie's Angels. 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 Donnie Darko.
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.
She was the subject of My Date with Drew (2005). In it, an aspiring filmmaker and fan uses his limited resources in an attempt to gain a date with her.
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). Barrymore is, as of 2006, dating drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes.
==Advocacy==
Drew is opposed to guns. When doing movies like Charlie's Angels, she doesn't want her characters to use them.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Roles 	Notes
2009	Whip It 	Smashley Simpson 	Also director and producer
2006	Grey Gardens 	'Little' Edith Bouvier Beale	Announced
2006	Music and Lyrics By 	Sophie Fisher 	Filming
2006	Lucky You 	Billie Offer 	
2006	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 	
2001	Freddy Got Fingered 	Mr. Davidson's receptionist 	Cameo
2001	Donnie Darko 	Karen Pomeroy 	Also executive producer
2000	Charlie's Angels 	Dylan Sanders 	Also producer
2000	The Simpsons 	Sophie, Krusty's daughter 	TV series; voice
2000	Titan A.E. 	Akima 	voice
2000	Skipped Parts 	Fantasy Girl 	
1999	Never Been Kissed 	Josie Geller 	Also executive producer
1998	Home Fries 	Sally Jackson 	
1998	Ever After 	Danielle De Barbarac 	
1998	The Wedding Singer 	Julia Sullivan 	
1997	Best Men 	Hope 	
1997	Wishful Thinking 	Lena 	
1996	Scream 	Casey Becker 	Cameo
1996	Everyone Says I Love You 	Skylar Dandridge 	
1995	Batman Forever 	Sugar 	
1995	Mad Love 	Casey Roberts 	
1995	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
1993	Doppelganger 	Holly Gooding 	
1993	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 	
==See also==
*Barrymore Family
==External links==
*
*Drew Barrymore Video with Johnny Carson
* Drew Barrymore at Fan History Wiki
Category:1975 births
Category:Actresses
Category:Producers