Everything about Drew Barrymore totally explained
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born
February 22,
1975) is an
Emmy Award- and
Golden Globe-nominated
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); her breakout role two years later was in
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of
Hollywood's most recognized child actresses going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.
Biography
Early life
Barrymore was born in
Culver City,
California, the daughter of American actor
John Drew Barrymore and
Ildiko Jaid Barrymore (
née Makó), an aspiring actress born in a
displaced persons camp in
Brannenburg,
West Germany to
Hungarian World War II refugees. 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. Her paternal great-great-grandfather, John Drew, the actor, was
Irish-born, and immigrated to the US, in the
19th Century.
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,
Maurice Costello and
Mae Costello (née Altschuk), 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 (whom
Winston Churchill once proposed to), 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 god-daughter 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.
Rise to fame
Barrymore's career began when she was eleven months old: she auditioned for a dog food commercial. Barrymore would go on to pose nude for the
January 1995 issue of
Playboy.
Steven Spielberg, who directed her in
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial when she was a child, gave her a
quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read, "Cover yourself up". She would eventually appear nude in five of her movies during this period. 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 underwent breast reduction surgery in 1992, and has said on the subject:
Return to prominence
She made a comeback in the successful 1996
horror film Scream. Barrymore has continued to be highly bankable, and a top box office draw. She has also produced several films, including
Charlie's Angels (2000), a major box office success of 2000. 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:
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). 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's one of the actresses with the second highest salary per movie for 2006.
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. In May 2007, Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations
World Food Programme and on
March 3,
2008, she donated $1 million to the Programme. In June 2007, Gucci announced that Drew Barrymore would be the new face for their jewelry line. Barrymore is signed to IMG Models New York.
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.
In March 2007, former magazine editor
Jane Pratt claimed on her
Sirius Satellite Radio show that she'd a romance with Barrymore in the middle 1990s. This was after Barrymore's own 2003 admission that she considered herself
bisexual, commenting: "I don't think I could ever just solely be with a woman...It's just not enough for me."
She is currently dating
Justin Long.
Filmography
Films
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