Drew Barrymore

Biography of Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore was born on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California.

She is belonging to a family of famous actors like Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore. She is the daughter of actor John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Makó, an aspiring actress. Her mother was born in a refugee camp in Brannenburg, West Germany, after World War II. Her father is of English, Irish, and German descent.

Drew Barrymore stated that she was first mistreated by his father when she was still in his mother's womb, in addition to declaring that when she was nine years old she used all kinds of drugs. Her parents divorced in 1984, when she was nine years old.

She appeared in commercials from a very young age. At an audition for a dog food commercial when she was just 11 months old, she was bitten by her canine co-star and just laughed being hired for the job.

She made her film debut at just five years old playing the daughter of William Hurt in Amazing Journey to the Back of the Mind, although her big appearance was in the famous E.T. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Two years after appearing in this film, her career was in decline due to the consumption of alcohol and drugs that would be part of her life until the end of the eighteen. It was common to see her in the famous Studio 54 as a child, smoking and consuming alcohol at 11 years old, smoking marijuana at 12 and snorting cocaine at 13. She was in rehab at 14, the age at which she attempted suicide.

She published a book about her drug addiction and rehabilitation in 1990 and two years later she was on everyone's lips again after appearing nude for a magazine with her then-boyfriend, actor Jamie Walters.

In 1993 Drew Barrymore got a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for GunCrazy and she posed nude at the age of 19 for the January 1995 issue of Playboy. In that year she starred in Boys on the Side, along with Whoopi Goldberg, she made a cameo in Joel Schumacher's film, Batman Forever.

The following year she made another cameo appearance in the hit horror film Scream. She continued to work in romantic comedies such as Wishful Thinking (1997), The Wedding Singer (1998), and Home Fries (1998).

Her role in the period drama Ever After (1998) offered a modern take on the classic Cinderella fairy tale. In 2000, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer.

She also participated in action movies such as Charlie's Angels, and had a special role in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), playing a teenage mother.

In 2002, she appeared in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, opposite Julia Roberts. In 2003, she reprized the role of Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and appeared opposite Ben Stiller in Duplex. She subsequently acted in Fever Pitch (2005), in Music and Lyrics (2007), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), Going the Distance (2010), and Miss You Already (2015). In 2012, she starred in Big Miracle, a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales.

She received the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for her performance in Gray Gardens (2009).

Since 2017, she has starred alongside Timothy Olyphant in the Netflix comedy series Santa Clarita Diet.

Barrymore starred in The Stand En, which was scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On September 14, 2020, Barrymore premiered a talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show.

She made her directorial debut with the film Whip It, which was released in October 2009, starring Ellen Page and Marcia Gay Harden.

In May 2007, she was appointed Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Program, to which she donated one million dollars.

On March 11, 2021, Barrymore announced that she would be taking an indefinite hiatus from acting.

She is the author of a cookbook with chef Pilar Valdés titled Rebel Homemaker.

She always considered herself bisexual. In March 2007, a magazine editor, Jane Pratt, stated that he had an affair with her in the 1990s.

In 1991, at the age of 16, she became engaged to Leland Hayward, the grandson of producer Leland Hayward. After a few months, the engagement was called off.

In 1992, she underwent breast reduction surgery.

Barrymore lived with musician and actor Jamie Walters between 1992 and 1993.

She was married on March 20, 1994 to Jeremy Thomas, a Welsh bartender. She filed for divorce two months later.

In July 2001, she married Tom Green, an actor who appears in Charlie's Angels.

In 2002, she began dating The Strokes' drummer, Fabrizio Moretti, after meeting at a concert. Their relationship ended in January 2007.

She then began dating actor Justin Long, they broke up in July 2008 but got back together in 2009 and co-starred in the 2010 movie Going the Distance but broke up again in 2010.

On June 2, 2012, she marriedWill Kopelman in an intimate ceremony held at her Montecito, California estate. The wedding was brought forward when the couple found out that Drew was pregnant.

She gave birth to her first child, a girl named Olive Barrymore Kopelman, on September 26 of that same year. They later became parents to Frankie Barrymore Kopelman, born in April 2014. On April 2, 2016, Barrymore and Kopelman announced their separation. On August 3, 2016, they divorced.

Barrymore is godmother to Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.