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Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22,
1975) is an American actress and film producer, the
youngest member of the Barrymore family of American
actors. She has her own production company, Flower
Films. Barrymore made her screen début in Altered
States (1980); she made her breakout role two years
later in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became
one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses.
In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Barrymore had various
problems with alcohol and drugs, which somewhat damaged
her career. She also posed nude for Playboy in 1995. She
made a comeback with the thriller Poison Ivy (1992), and
afterwards began to perform predominantly in leading
roles in a variety of films, ranging from big budget
romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction, horror
films, and action thrillers. Barrymore has a worldwide
box office gross that stands at over $2.3 billion.
According The Hollywood Reporter's annual Star Salary
Top 10, she is one of the actresses with the second
highest salary per movie for 2006.
Early life: Barrymore was born Drew Blyth
Barrymore in Culver City, California to John Drew
Barrymore and Hungarian-born Ildiko Jaid Barrymore (née
Makó), both former actors. Her parents divorced after
she was born. She has a half-brother John Blyth
Barrymore, also an actor, and two half-sisters Blyth
Dolores Barrymore and Brahma (Jessica) Blyth Barrymore.
Barrymore was born into the acting profession, coming
from a long line of acting talent stretching back nearly
200 years; her great-great grandparents John Drew,
Louisa Lane Drew, her great-grandparents Maurice
Barrymore, Georgiana Drew and Maurice Costello, and her
grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello were
all highly successful actors; John Barrymore was
arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation. She
is the grand-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 and
half-brother are also actors. She is also the
goddaughter of director Steven Spielberg.
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.
Early work: Barrymore's career began when she was
11 months old, 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 made her film debut in
Altered States (1980). A year later, she landed the role
of Gertie in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which made her
famous.
She 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,
already a regular at the famed Studio 54 when she was a
little girl, smoking cigarettes and 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. Her nightlife and constant partying became a
popular subject with the media.
Though she overcame her substance abuse problems by the
time she entered adulthood, she maintained her "bad
girl" image, and used her new-found role as a sex
symbol to stage a career comeback playing a
manipulative, evil teenage seductress in Poison Ivy
(1992). The film found enormous success on VHS when it
was first released.
She posed nude for the January, 1995 issue of Playboy.
Spielberg gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a
note that read "Cover yourself up". Enclosed
were copies of her Playboy pictures, 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 climbed onto Dave
Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back
to the camera. The flash was intended to celebrate his
birthday. She also modeled in a series of Guess? jeans
ads during this time. She made a comeback in the
successful 1996 horror film Scream.
1996-present: continued fame: Barrymore has
continued to be highly bankable, and a top box office
draw. She has been especially adept in romantic
comedies, such as Wishful Thinking (1996), The Wedding
Singer (1998), Home Fries (1998), Never Been Kissed
(1999), 50 First Dates (2004), and Fever Pitch (2005).
Summing up Drew's appeal, Roger Ebert, in his review of
50 First Dates describes Barrymore as having a
"smiling, coy sincerity", describing the film
as "ingratiating and lovable".[2] She has also
produced several films, including Charlie's Angels
(2000), a major box office success of 2000.
After Charlie's Angels, Drew had a
dramatic role in the comedy/drama Riding in Cars with
Boys (2001), 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). In Richard
Kelly's debut movie Donnie Darko she had the fairly
small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's
English teacher. In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan
Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Maxim
magazine featured Barrymore and her fellow Angels in
their "Girls of Maxim" gallery after the
launch of the film. Later in 2002, Barrymore appeared in
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, alongside Julia
Roberts. 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. One of her most recent roles has
involved her becoming a recurring character in the hit
animated comedy Family Guy as Brian Griffin's shallow
girlfriend, Jillian. She has since appeared in four
episodes.
Barrymore has also appeared in the films Lucky You
(2007), and Music and Lyrics (2007). She recently hosted
Saturday Night Live for the fifth time, making her the
second female host in the show's history to do so
(Candice Bergen being the first) and still remains the
youngest celebrity to host the show (Barrymore hosted in
1982 at age 7; Jodie Foster was 14 when she hosted it in
1976).
In March 2007, Barrymore became the face
of Gold by Giles Deacon collection for the fashion chain
New Look. British Designer of the Year said Drew
Barrymore was his number one choice to front his
creations. “She’s highly intelligent, a great
businesswoman, and a role model, but she’s also
someone that’s made mistakes in the past and come
through and I think people respond to and respect
that,” he said.
It was announced on April 11, 2007 that Barrymore will
become CoverGirl Cosmetic's newest model and
spokeswoman. In April 2007, Barrymore reached No. 1 in
People's annual 100 Most Beautiful People list, taking
the title from Angelina Jolie. In May 2007 Drew
Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the
United Nations World Food Programme. |
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