Drew Barrymore was born to be a star and perform on stage. She was born on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California, USA. She was born to actor John Drew Barrymore Jr. and Ildiko Jaid. Infact its right to say that she was born in a family of stars. Hher grandparents were actors John Barrymore and Dolores Costello. The director Steven Spielberg is her godfather.
she first began acting at the tender age of 11 months in a TV commercial. At 7, Drew was starring in box-office record-breaker E.T. (1982). The flip side of this child stardom was revealed when she dropped out of school at 14 and published her co-written autobiography, Little Girl Lost (1990).
She had a very troubled time through her childhood. She tried alcohol for the first time at age 9, and marijuana at age 10. Soon after, she turned to cocaine, and stirred controversy with her near nude appearances in Far From Home, and was forced into ASAP Family Treatment Center, a drug rehab clinic. She stole her mother's credit card, escaped the clinic, and made a break for the Westcoast. She was unsuccessful, however, and was returned to rehab by authorities. July 1989 was her all-time low; she unsuccessfully attempted suicide, and was sent back to rehab. She divorced her mother at the age of 15, and posed nude for a magazine cover not much later than that.
Because of her reputation as a wild child in trouble, film projects were slow to materialize. Barrymore made some minor films, including Irreconcilable Differences, Firestarter and Cat's Eye, and in the 1990s began starring in a series of films that exploited her bad-girl image, including Poison Ivy (1992), Guncrazy (1992), the TV prime time soap, Malibu Road (1992), and The Amy Fisher Story (1993), a made-for-TV movie based on the Joey Buttafuoco scandal.
Barrymore entered into a short-lived marriage to actor Jeremy Thomas at age 19, which lasted from March to May of 1994. She continued her outrageous behavior in the early 1990s by posing nude, multiple tattoos and all, for spreads in Andy Warhol's Interview and in Playboy. She also exposed her breasts on TV to a shocked David Letterman at his Late Night show birthday celebration.
Her cinematic luck began to change in 1995 when she turned in a solid performance in Boys on the Side with Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker. She made a memorable terror-filled appearance in the blockbuster Scream (1996) and co-starred in Woody Allen's musical Everybody Says I Love You, the same year. In 1998, she costarred in the popular comedy, The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler, and in Ever After, a version of the Cinderella story costarring Anjelica Huston as her evil stepmother. She reportedly received $3 million for the latter project, which met with a decidedly favorable reception.
Barrymore, who founded her own production company, Flower Films, in 1994, got her first credit as executive producer in 1999 with the likable comedy Never Been Kissed, in which she also starred. She produced and starred in the hit film version of Aaron Spelling's popular 1970s TV series, Charlie's Angels, playing alongside Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu as the titular trio of private detectives. A sequel is planned for June 2002 entitled Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In late 2001, Barrymore starred in Penny Marshall's Riding in Cars with Boys.
In the summer of 2000, Barrymore became engaged to the eccentric Canadian comic Tom Green, of MTV's The Tom Green Show, who had a cameo role in Charlie's Angels. After many false wedding rumors (some started by Green himself), the pair eloped in March 2001. The couple filed for divorce six months later; the divorce was made final in October 2002. |
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