Drew Blythe Barrymore, an American actress, producer, and talk show host, was born on February 22, 1975. She is a member of the Barrymore acting family and has won and been nominated for numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, seven Emmy Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. In 2004, she was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Barrymore's breakthrough performance in E.T. brought her renown as a young actress. Extraterrestrial is the term. She published an autobiography titled Little Girl Lost after a highly publicised childhood characterised by drug and alcohol abuse. She appeared in a number of popular films in the 1990s and 2000s, including Charlie's Angels, Never Been Kissed, Poison Ivy, Boys on the Side, Mad Love, Batman Forever, Scream, and Ever After. The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, and Blended are three films in which Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler co-starred. Firestarter, Donnie Darko, Riding in Cars with Boys, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Fever Pitch, Music and Lyrics, Going the Distance, Big Miracle, and Miss You Already are just a few of her other movies. She also acted in Whip It, her first film as a filmmaker. She received a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work in Grey Gardens. She played the lead in the Santa Clarita Diet Netflix series, and she presently serves as presenter of the syndicated talk show The Drew Barrymore Show.
Flower Films, a production business, was founded by Barrymore. She has starred in a number of the productions that it has produced. Her other commercial endeavours include a variety of wines and a clothing line. In 2013, she established a range of cosmetics under the Flower brand, which has since expanded to encompass lines in make-up, perfume, and eyewear. P. In 2015, Dutton released a book named Wildflower that included a collection of Barrymore's autobiographical essays.
Early Years
Ancestry
On February 22, 1975, in Culver City, California, Drew Blythe Barrymore was born. Her parents were actor John Drew Barrymore and aspiring actress Jaid Barrymore (born IldikóJaidMakó), who was born to Hungarian World War II refugees in a displaced persons camp in Brannenburg, West Germany. Actor John Blyth Barrymore is one of her father's three older half-siblings. Her parents split when she was nine years old in 1984.
Barrymore was raised in a family of actors. Her paternal grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, as well as all of her paternal great-grandparents Maurice and Georgie Drew Barrymore and Maurice and Mae Costello (née Altschuk), were performers, with John being possibly the most lauded of his generation. is a great-great-granddaughter of Irish-born John and English-born Louisa Lane Drew, both of whom were performers. She is also a niece of Diana Barrymore, a grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Helene Costello, and a great-great-grandniece of all three. She is the great-granddaughter of Sidney Drew, an actor, writer, and director in silent films, and John Drew, Jr., a Broadway legend.
Sophia Loren and Anna Strasberg, the widow of Lee Strasberg, are Barrymore's godmothers. According to Barrymore, the latter's relationship "would become so important to me as a kid because she was so kind and nurturing." Steven Spielberg is her godfather.
In her 1991 autobiography Little Girl Lost, Barrymore detailed early memories of her abusive father, who left the family when she was six months old. Barrymore's first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother Georgie Drew, and her middle name, Blythe, was the family surname first used by Maurice Barrymore. She hardly ever spoke to her father and they never had anything close to a close connection.
Childhood
Before she moved to Sherman Oaks at the age of 7, Barrymore lived on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood. She claims that because she grew up in Sherman Oaks, she speaks "like a valley girl" in her 2015 memoir, Wildflower. Barrymore attended Fountain Day education in West Hollywood and Country School for elementary education. Prior to her sudden fame, Barrymore had a notoriously difficult life. When she was fourteen and became emancipated, she returned to West Hollywood. She frequented Studio 54 as a young girl, and the media grew interested in her nightlife and incessant partying. At the age of 13, she was admitted to a mental health facility where she spent eighteen months. At the age of 14, a failed suicide attempt forced her back into treatment, which was followed by a three-month stay with David Crosby and his wife. Crosby claimed that the reason for the stay was because Barrymore "needed to be around some people that were committed to sobriety." Barrymore wrote about this time in her life in Little Girl Lost. She obtained her freedom from the juvenile court and, at the age of fifteen, moved into her own flat.
Career
1980s
When she was eleven months old, she made her acting debut in a dog food commercial. She made her cinematic debut in a minor part in Altered States before starring as Gertie in E.T. Extraterrestrial is the term. Spielberg was fascinated by her claim that she was the leader of a punk rock band, and he concluded that she possessed the necessary creativity for the part. became one of the most well-known young performers of the time and was the highest-grossing movie of the 1980s. Barrymore was nominated for the British Academy Film Awards' Rising Star Award and won the Youth in Film Award for Best Young Supporting Actress. Barrymore was the youngest person to participate as a guest host on Saturday Night Live in its seventh season.
Barrymore portrayed a young woman with pyrokinesis in the 1984 horror movie adaption of Stephen King's 1980 novel Firestarter who becomes the target of a covert government organisation called The Shop. In Irreconcilable Differences, she portrayed a young girl who was divorcing her famous parents, and she was nominated for her first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roger Ebert wrote in a review for the Chicago Sun-Times, "Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm."
Barrymore had a difficult childhood but persisted in acting throughout the decade. She starred in the also-written by King anthology horror movie Cat's Eye. She was offered the role of Cecile in Dangerous Liaisons, but Uma Thurman won the role instead. The movie garnered favourable reviews, and Barrymore was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress. In the love story See You in the Morning, Barrymore played the lead role. Far from Home featured Drew Barrymore as a teenager who became lost with her father in a small village in a remote area of the desert. Vincent Canby of The New York Times criticised the "fashionable phoniness" of the movie but praised Barrymore for it. The movie earned bad reviews from critics who discounted the sexual representation of her role and was virtually ignored by viewers.
The rebelliousness of Barrymore was evident in both print and film. Her character "Ivy" was ranked at #6 on the list of the top 26 "bad girls" of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Barrymore was seventeen when she posed nude with her then-fiancé, actor Jamie Walters, for the cover of the July issue of Interview magazine; she also appeared nude in pictures inside the issue. Poison Ivy was a box office failure but was popular on video and cable.
Barrymore was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her role as a teen who kills her abusive dad in the movie Guncrazy. Variety said that she "pulls off impressively" her character. In No Place to Hide, Barrymore portrayed the younger sister of a murdered ballerina; in Doppelganger, she portrayed a writer who is pursued by what appears to be her evil twin. Both films received negative reviews from reviewers and were not well received. She made an appearance in the western movie Bad Girls, which follows four former prostitutes who are on the run after a legal killing and prison break. What a fantastic concept it was to make a Western about four strong women, and what a sad movie, said Roger Ebert in his Chicago Sun-Times review.
Barrymore posed naked for the January 1995 issue of Playboy. Her godfather and director Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday along with a note that read, "Cover yourself up." Also included were copies of her Playboy photos, which his art department had altered to make her look fully dressed.
Barrymore gave David Letterman a birthday kiss while performing on the Late Show with David Letterman, then stepped up over the desk and showed him her breasts. She also starred in a number of Guess? advertising for jeans at this moment.
Late in the 1990s, Barrymore rebuilt her reputation and remained a very bankable celebrity.
Barrymore's performance as a pregnant woman attempting to flee her violent partner in the box office hit Boys on the Side earned favourable reviews from critics. In the superhero movie Batman Forever, she portrayed one of Two-Face's (Tommy Lee Jones') two female employees.
Barrymore appeared in Wes Craven's 1996 slasher movie Scream for a brief but noteworthy cameo. She read the script for the movie and wanted to be a part of it, so she went to the production staff and asked for a part. The producers seized the opportunity presented by her sudden interest and hired her to play the primary character of Sidney Prescott. Neve Campbell took on the starring role instead of Drew Barrymore due to unforeseen obligations. Scream was released to tremendous acclaim and earned $173 million globally.
Barrymore played a waitress in love with Adam Sandler's titular character in The Wedding Singer (1998). Variety praised the movie as a "spirited, funny, and warm saga" that serves them up "in a new way that enhances their most winning qualities." The film had a $18 million budget but made $123.3 million abroad. Barrymore also played a pregnant woman who unknowingly falls for the stepson of the deceased father of her child in Home Fries (1998).
Barrymore was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice work as an anthropomorphic Jack Russell terrier in the holiday television movie Olive, the Other Reindeer. After founding Flower Films, Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen produced the company's first movie, Never Been Kissed, in which Barrymore portrayed a high school student and an insecure copy editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. The film was a commercial success, earning $84.5 million. Despite the mixed reviews from critics, CNN stated: "There are two words which describe why this film works: Drew Barrymore. Her comedic timing and willingness to go all out in her quest for a laugh combine to make Never Been Kissed a gratifying movie-going experience."
2000s
Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu played the three Los Angeles-based detectives in Charlie's Angels. Barrymore starred in Riding in Cars with Boys as a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father (based on Beverly Donofrio's true story). When the production of Donnie Darko was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from the company and played the title character's English teacher. The movie was a major box office success and helped solidify the standing between Barrymore and the company. The movie gained cult appeal after being released on DVD, despite the fact that it did poorly at the box office in the wake of 9/11. This led to the creation of various websites devoted to deciphering the movie's hidden meanings and plot twists.
Barrymore repeated her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and co-featured with Ben Stiller in Duplex. She also starred in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoirs of television producer Chuck Barris. In the movie 50 First Dates, Sandler played a marine veterinarian, and Barrymore portrayed an amnesiac woman. Roger Ebert summarised Barrymore's appeal in his review of the movie, saying that Barrymore displayed a "smiling, coy sincerity" in what he called a "ingratiating and lovable" film. 50 First Dates was a financial success, earning US$120.9 million in North America and US$196.4 million globally.
Barrymore portrayed the love interest of an immature school teacher (Jimmy Fallon) in the 2005 American version of the 1997 British film Fever Pitch. She and Hugh Grant starred in Music and Lyrics, which is about the relationship that develops between a former pop music idol and an aspiring writer as they struggle to write a song for a reigning pop diva. The movie grossed a modest US$50 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics who felt it "has enough charm and on-screen chemistry between [Fallon and Barrymore] to make it a solid hit." The Washington Post deemed the two to be "great together" in the romance comedy, which debuted in February 2007. The movie was a commercial success, making US$145 million worldwide.
Barrymore portrayed an aspiring singer and the object of a skilled poker player's affections in Curtis Hanson's Lucky You. Barrymore provided the voice of the Beverly Hills Chihuahua in Raja Gosnell's Beverly Hills Chihuahua, a spoiled pet who is kidnapped in Mexico and must flee from an evil Doberman.
Barrymore played Edith Bouvier Beale, the daughter of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Jessica Lange), in the HBO film Grey Gardens, which is based on the 1975 documentary film. The film received mixed reviews, in part because of Barrymore's brief screen time, and it made US$178 million worldwide. The television movie was a big hit, garnering two Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. Barrymore was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. Rolling Stone writer Peter Travers called Barrymore a "revelation" in her role.
In her first feature film as a filmmaker, Barrymore starred. Elliot Page plays a high schooler who quits the teen beauty pageant scene to play in an Austin roller derby league. Barrymore worked with screenwriter Shauna Cross for months on script revisions, pushing her to "avoid her story's tidier prospects, to make things'more raw and open ended.'" Although the movie made little money at the box office, critics generally thought it was good. Barrymore's endeavour led to nominations for the EDA Female Focus Award at the 2009 Alliance of Women Film Journalists as well as the Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Festival. The drama Everybody's Fine bombed at the box office, although Stephen Holden for The New York Times praised Drew Barrymore for being "as ingenuous as ever" in the "small role" she performed as the daughter of a recently widowed retiree (Robert De Niro).
2010s
In the movie Going the Distance directed by Nanette Burstein, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long starred. It centres on a couple who commutes between New York City and San Francisco and deals with the ups and downs of a long-distance relationship. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, who summarised it as "timelier and a little more honest than most romantic comedies," the film exceeded its US$32 million budget at the box office, earning US$40 million.
Chlo Grace Moretz, Miranda Cosgrove, Tyler Posey, Donald Glover, Shailene Woodley, and Alia Shawkat appear in the music video for the band Best Coast's song "Our Deal," which was directed by Barrymore on August 2, 2011. Barrymore also starred in the biopic movie Big Miracle, which is about Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 global effort to free grey whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska. Her character, Rachel Kramer, is based
Barrymore played a recently divorced woman in Blended who met a widower (Sandler) while vacationing with her family. She and Toni Collette starred in Miss You Already (2015) as two longtime friends whose relationship is tested when one starts a family and the other becomes ill. Film critic James Berardinelli dismissed the "hit-and-miss humour" of the story and wrote that "as [Sandler and Barrymore] are concerned, the third time is definitely not the charm". Despite having a small theatrical distribution, critics praised the movie.
Barrymore portrayed a real estate agent in the Netflix original series Santa Clarita Diet who developed a taste for human flesh after undergoing a physical metamorphosis into a zombie. The single-camera series was well received upon its debut; Rolling Stone felt that "much of [the series' laughs] comes down to the uncrushable Drew Barrymore charm" and furthermore stated: "The show is a welcome comeback for Barrymore, the eternally beloved grunge-era wild thing—it's not just her big move into TV, but her first high-profile performance anywhere in years." Barrymore also served as executive producer alongside co-star Timothy Olyphant.
2020s
The Stand In, which starred Drew Barrymore, was supposed to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020 but was postponed because of the COVID-19 epidemic. On September 14, 2020, Barrymore debuted The Drew Barrymore Show, a syndicated daytime talk show. On December 4, 2020, she made a guest appearance on Martha Knows Best. On March 11, 2021, Barrymore announced that she would be taking a break from acting. She co-wrote Rebel Homemaker, a cookbook, with chef Pilar Valdes. In June 2021, she launched Drew Magazine, a quarterly lifestyle publication by publisher Bauer Media USA. Barrymore was named one of the 100 most influential
Image And Style
In 2007, Drew Barrymore started working as a model and spokesperson for CoverGirl Cosmetics. In February 2015, she joined Queen Latifah and Taylor Swift as one of the brand's faces. According to Esi Eggleston Bracey, vice president and general manager of CoverGirl Cosmetics North America, the brand teamed with her because "she emulates the iconic image of CoverGirl with her fresh, natural beauty and energetic yet authentic spirit." She was No. 1 on People's annual list of the 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007, and she was chosen to be the new face of the Gucci jewellery collection. She provided more than just her personality to this endorsement; she also contributed to the ads' creative development. Barrymore has into a modelling agreement with IMG Models New York City. She served as a Crocs spokesperson as well.
Barrymore appeared on the cover of a magazine series called "They Shoot New York" in May 2007 holding a Pentax K1000 film camera. She expressed hopes of one day exhibiting her work in a gallery as she had documented the most recent decade of her life with a Pentax camera. Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and later donated $1 million to the cause.
In collaboration with Amazon.com, Barrymore debuted her Dear Drew women's clothing line in the autumn of 2017. The collection had a pop-up store in New York City that opened its doors in November.
Private Life
Leland III, the grandson of Leland Hayward, and Drew Barrymore were engaged in 1991; the engagement was broken up a few months later. Between 1992 and 1993, she was engaged to Jamie Walters.
On March 20, 1994, Barrymore wed Jeremy Thomas, owner of a pub in Los Angeles who was of Welsh descent. He was divorced by her in less than two months.
Barrymore started dating Hole musician Eric Erlandson in late 1994. In 1999, she started dating MTV anchor and comedian Tom Green; they got engaged in July 2000, and got married a year later. Together, they acted in Charlie's Angels and Green's debut directorial effort, Freddy Got Fingered. Green's divorce was finally finalised on October 15, 2002, following her December 2001 divorce filing.
Fabrizio Moretti, the drummer for The Strokes, and Drew Barrymore started dating in 2002 shortly after they met at a concert. Their relationship ended in January 2007. Barrymore then started dating Justin Long, but they split up in July 2008. Barrymore and Long later made a public display of their relationship while filming Going the Distance, but they broke up again the following year.
The couple announced their engagement in January 2012 and were married on June 2, 2012, in Montecito, California. Four days later, the couple's wedding photo appeared on the cover of People magazine. They have two daughters: Olive (born 2012) and Frankie (born 2014). On April 2, 2016, Barrymore and Kopelman announced their separation. On July 15, 2016, Barrymore and Kopelman announced their reconciliation.
Barrymore stated: "Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always thought of myself as bisexual. I love a woman's body. I think a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful. Being with a woman is like exploring your own body, but through someone else."
Frances Bean Cobain, the child of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, has Barrymore as her godmother.
Barrymore apparently persuaded Cardi B to consider veganism. She consumes a plant-based diet. Barrymore has been living in Manhattan since 2023, where she is the host of The Drew Barrymore Show.
Honours, Distinctions, And Nominations
Barrymore was given the Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award by the Young Artist Foundation in 1999 in recognition of her outstanding work as a child actress in the film industry. In 2004 she was given a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the industry. Location of her star is 6925 Hollywood Boulevard.
Over US$2.3 billion was made at the box office worldwide thanks to her films. Barrymore set a record for being the youngest host of Saturday Night Live when she did so on November 20, 1982, when she was just seven years old. On February 3, 2007, she hosted SNL for the fifth time, becoming the second female host (after Candic) and tied for eighth place on The Hollywood Reporter's annual Star Salary Top 10, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per film in 2006. On October 10, 2009, she hosted once more, making history as the first woman to do so six times.
Quick Bio
Nickname | D |
Gender | Female |
Age | 48 years old (in 2023) |
Date of Birth | February 22, 1975 |
Full Name | Drew Blythe Barrymore |
Profession | Actress |
Nationality | American |
Birthplace | Culver City, California, United States |
Religion | Buddhism |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
School | She dropped out high school |
Profession | Actress |
Net Worth | $125 million |
Height, Weight & Physical Stats
Body Measurements | 37-27-35 inches |
Bodytype | Average |
Height | 5 ft 4 inches (1.63 m) |
Weight | 56 kg (123.5 lbs) |
Waist | 27 inches |
Hair Color | Light Brown |
Eye Color | Green |
Shoe Size | 7 (US) |
Dress Size | 6 (US) |
Family & Relatives
Father | John Drew Barrymore |
Mother | Jaid Barrymore |
Brother | John Blyth Barrymore |
Sister | essica Blyth Barrymore, Blyth Dolores Barrymore |
Marital Status | Divorced |
Ex Spouse | Will Kopelman (m. 2012–2016_ Tom Green (m. 2001–2002) Jeremy Thomas (m. 1994–1995) |
No. of Children | 2 |
Son | None |
Daughter | Olive Barrymore Kopelman, Frankie Barrymore Kopelman |
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