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Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in
Culver City, California) is an United
States|American film and television Actor|actress
and Film producer|producer.

She is the granddaughter of theatre|stage actor
John Barrymore, and 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.

==Career==

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 in
television|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.


In the wake of this sudden stardom, she enjoyed a
notoriously reckless and indulgent 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. 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 (movie)|Poison
Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of
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
nudity|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, as part of a dance for his birthday.  She
also modelled in a series of Guess? jeans
advertisements during this time.


Barrymore has continued to be a highly bankable
movie actress. 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)|Charlie's Angels movie adaptation and its
sequel. In addition to the light-hearted romantic
comedy|romantic comedies that she has typically
starred in, she has also recently explored more
dramatic roles in movies such as Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind, and the cult film|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
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800016287&cf
=biog&intl=us 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.

On February 3, 2004 in film|2004, she received a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Barrymore was married to bartender 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
as of 2004|currently dating drummer Fabrizio
Moretti of The Strokes. Barrymore has also
publicly declared herself to be
bisexuality|bisexual, revealing that she had slept
with many women as a teenager and is still very
interested in women sexually.

==Trivia==
* Barrymore was delivered by Paul M. Fleiss|Dr.
Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss (interview on
The Tonight Show, January 22, 2003).
* She is the godmother of Frances Bean, the
daughter of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney
Love.
* 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).

==Filmography==
*Altered States (1980 in film|1980)
*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
*Firestarter (1984 in film|1984)
*Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
*Cat's Eye (film)|Cat's Eye (1985 in film|1985)
*See You in the Morning (1989 in film|1989)
*Far from Home (1989)
*Motorama (movie)|Motorama (1991 in film|1991)
*Poison Ivy (movie)|Poison Ivy (1992 in film|1992)
*Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
*Guncrazy (1992)
*No Place to Hide (1993 in film|1993)
*Doppelganger (1993)
*Wayne's World 2 (1993) (Cameo appearance|Cameo)
*Inside the Goldmine (1994 in film|1994) 
*Bad Girls (movie)|Bad Girls (1994)
*Boys on the Side (1995 in film|1995)
*Mad Love (1995)
*Batman Forever (1995)
*Like a Lady (1996 in film|1996) 
*Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
*Scream (movie)|Scream (1996)
*Wishful Thinking (1997 in film|1997)
*Best Men (1997)
*The Wedding Singer (1998 in film|1998)
*Ever After (1998)
*Home Fries (1998)
*Never Been Kissed (1999 in film|1999) (also
producer)
*Skipped Parts (2000 in film|2000) 
*Titan A.E. (2000) (voice actor|voice)
*Charlie's Angels (2000) (also producer)
*Donnie Darko (2001 in film|2001)
*Freddy Got Fingered (2001) (Cameo)
*Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
*Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002 in
film|2002)
*Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003 in
film|2003) (also producer)
*Duplex (2003) (also producer)
*50 First Dates (2004 in film|2004)
*Ramones Raw (2004) (documentary)
*Fever Pitch (2005 movie)|Fever Pitch (2005 in
film|2005) (also producer)
*Lucky You (2005) (currently filming)
*Curious George (movie)|Curious George (2006 in
film|2006) (voice) (currently filming)

==See also==
*Barrymore family

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0000106|name=Drew Barrymore
*http://drewfan.com/ Drew Barrymore Fansite
*http://www.drew-barrymore.org The Drew Barrymore
Collective
*http://www.drewsmiles.com Drew Smiles