1. Drew Blythe Barrymore was born on February 22,1975 and is an American actress, talk show host, and businesswoman.
92 Facts About Drew Barrymore
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Drew Barrymore was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2023.
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Drew Barrymore starred with Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, and Blended.
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Drew Barrymore acted in Batman Forever, Donnie Darko, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Music and Lyrics, He's Just Not That Into You, and Going the Distance.
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Drew Barrymore starred in her directorial debut film Whip It.
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Drew Barrymore starred in the Netflix comedy horror series Santa Clarita Diet and has hosted the talk show The Drew Barrymore Show since 2020.
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Drew Barrymore is the founder of the production company Flower Films and has starred in several of its projects.
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Drew Barrymore launched a range of cosmetics under the Flower banner in 2013.
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Drew Barrymore has released four books including her memoir Little Girl Lost and her photobook Find It in Everything, both of which were New York Times bestsellers.
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Barrymore is a niece of Diana Barrymore, a grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, and a great-great-granddaughter of Irish-born John and English-born Louisa Lane Drew, all of whom were actors.
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Drew Barrymore is a great-grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew Jr.
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Drew Barrymore grew up on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood, until she moved to Sherman Oaks at the age of seven.
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Drew Barrymore moved back to West Hollywood on becoming emancipated at age 14.
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Drew Barrymore attended elementary school at Fountain Day School in West Hollywood and Country School.
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Drew Barrymore was a regular at Studio 54 as a young girl, and her nightlife and constant partying became a popular subject with the media.
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Drew Barrymore was placed in rehab at 13, and spent eighteen months in an institution for the mentally ill.
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Drew Barrymore appeared in a dog food commercial when she was eleven months old.
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Drew Barrymore won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the British Academy Film Awards.
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Drew Barrymore said that "nobody treated me like a kid there" and she didn't feel different than any other cast member despite her age.
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Drew Barrymore endured a troubled youth and continued acting during the decade.
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Drew Barrymore starred in the anthology horror film Cat's Eye, written by King.
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For Dangerous Liaisons, Drew Barrymore declined the role of Cecile, which went to Uma Thurman.
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Drew Barrymore starred in the romance film See You in the Morning.
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Drew Barrymore's rebelliousness played itself out on screen and in print.
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Drew Barrymore played a poor teenage girl in Poison Ivy, which was a box-office bomb, but was popular on video and cable.
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In Guncrazy, Drew Barrymore played a teenager who kills her abusive stepfather.
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Variety remarked that she "pulls off impressively" her character, and Drew Barrymore was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
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Drew Barrymore played the younger sister of a murdered ballerina in No Place to Hide and a writer followed by what is apparently her evil twin in Doppelganger.
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Drew Barrymore appeared in the western film Bad Girls, which follows four former prostitutes on the run following a justifiable homicide and prison escape.
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Drew Barrymore posed nude for the January 1995 issue of Playboy.
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Drew Barrymore later said that she would not let her own child make the same choice she did.
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In Boys on the Side, Drew Barrymore played a pregnant girl attempting to escape from her abusive boyfriend.
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Drew Barrymore had a small role in Wes Craven's slasher film Scream.
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Drew Barrymore read the film's script and was interested in being involved, approaching the production team herself to request a role.
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However, after unexpected commitments, Drew Barrymore played Casey Becker in a minor role and Neve Campbell took the leading one.
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Drew Barrymore was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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In Home Fries, Drew Barrymore played a pregnant woman unknowingly falling for the stepson of the late father of her baby.
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Drew Barrymore starred in the historical drama film Ever After, which made $98 million and was inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella.
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Drew Barrymore voiced the titular anthropomorphic Jack Russell terrier in the Christmas television film Olive, the Other Reindeer and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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The film was a major box office success and helped solidify Drew Barrymore's standing in her production company as one of the film's producers.
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Drew Barrymore starred in Riding in Cars with Boys, as a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
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Drew Barrymore starred in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the autobiography of television producer Chuck Barris.
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Drew Barrymore reprised her role in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and starred with Ben Stiller in Duplex.
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Flower Films and Happy Madison Productions produced the film 50 First Dates, in which Drew Barrymore played an amnesiac woman and Sandler played a marine veterinarian.
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The film grossed a modest US$50 million worldwide and had generally favorable reviews by critics who felt it "has enough charm and on-screen chemistry between [Fallon and Drew Barrymore] to make it a solid hit".
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Drew Barrymore starred in the 2006 animated film Curious George, based on the book series of the same name.
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In Curtis Hanson's poker film Lucky You, Drew Barrymore played an aspiring singer and the subject of the affections of a talented player.
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In Raja Gosnell's film Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Drew Barrymore voiced the titular character, a richly pampered pet who gets dognapped in Mexico and has to escape from an evil Doberman.
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Drew Barrymore starred in the ensemble romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You, which received mixed reviews, partly due to her limited time on screen, while it grossed US$178 million worldwide.
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Drew Barrymore played Edith Bouvier Beale, the daughter of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale in the HBO film Grey Gardens, which is based on the 1975 documentary film.
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In Everybody's Fine, Drew Barrymore played the daughter of a recently widowed retiree.
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Drew Barrymore starred with Justin Long in Nanette Burstein's film Going the Distance.
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Drew Barrymore starred in the biopic film Big Miracle, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.
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In Blended, Drew Barrymore played a recently divorced woman ending up on a family resort with a widower.
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On September 14,2020, Barrymore launched a syndicated daytime talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show, which is available on Spotify in a podcast format.
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On March 11,2021, Drew Barrymore said she was taking an indefinite hiatus from acting.
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Drew Barrymore wrote a cookbook with chef Pilar Valdes entitled Rebel Homemaker, which was a New York Times bestseller.
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Drew Barrymore was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
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In September 2023, Drew Barrymore announced she would continue her syndicated TV talk show despite the ongoing WGA strike, writing, "I own this choice", when explaining her reasoning via social media.
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Drew Barrymore added, "I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt, and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today".
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Drew Barrymore became a CoverGirl Cosmetics' model and spokeswoman in 2007.
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Drew Barrymore partnered with her because "she emulates the iconic image of CoverGirl with her fresh, natural beauty and energetic yet authentic spirit," said Esi Eggleston Bracey, vice president and general manager of CoverGirl Cosmetics North America.
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Drew Barrymore brought not only her personality into this endorsement but her creative side, as she helped create the ads.
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Drew Barrymore was No 1 on People's annual 100 Most Beautiful People list in 2007.
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Drew Barrymore was named the new face for the Gucci jewelry line.
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Drew Barrymore signed a contract with IMG Models New York City.
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Drew Barrymore expressed hopes of exposing her work in a gallery one day, as she had documented the most recent decade of her life with a Pentax camera.
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Drew Barrymore launched a women's fashion line in fall 2017 in conjunction with Amazon.
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Drew Barrymore became the Chief Gifting Officer for Etsy in January 2024.
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Drew Barrymore, then-16, was briefly engaged to 25-year-old Leland Hayward, III, the grandson of producer Leland Hayward, in 1991.
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Drew Barrymore, then-17, was in a relationship with 23-year-old Jamie Walters from 1992 to 1993.
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Drew Barrymore proposed to her with a diamond ring in a 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle and planned to marry in spring of 1993.
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Walters and Drew Barrymore have tattoos of the other's name; Walters has her name in a cross on his upper right shoulder blade and Drew Barrymore has his name, along with her mother's name, in a banner flown by a cherub on her lower back.
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In 2023, Drew Barrymore spoke positively of Walters while interviewing Tori Spelling, who played Walters' love interest on Beverly Hills, 90210, on her talk show.
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Drew Barrymore, then-19, began dating 31-year-old Jeremy Thomas, a Los Angeles-based business owner from Wales, in early 1994.
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Thomas had been allowing Drew Barrymore, who had been receiving treatment for alcoholism on and off for several years at that point, to drink at The Room, his bar on Cahuenga Boulevard, despite being underage.
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In late 1994, Drew Barrymore began dating Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson.
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Drew Barrymore began dating MTV host and comedian Tom Green in 1999.
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In 2002, Drew Barrymore began dating the Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti shortly after they met at a concert.
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Drew Barrymore began dating Justin Long, but they broke up in July 2008.
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Drew Barrymore gave birth to their first child three months later, and their second child in 2014.
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Drew Barrymore announced her separation from Kopelman on April 2,2016.
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In 2020, Drew Barrymore told People she would never get married again.
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Kopelman married Vogue director Alexandra "Allie" Michler in 2021 and Drew Barrymore has spoken positively of her relationship with Michler, saying she is a wonderful stepmother.
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Drew Barrymore moved to Manhattan in 2023 so that her children could be closer to Kopelman.
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Drew Barrymore is the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
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Drew Barrymore eats a plant-based diet, and reportedly convinced Cardi B to try veganism.
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Drew Barrymore became the youngest person to host Saturday Night Live, having hosted on November 20,1982, at seven years of age, a record that remains unbroken as of 2024.
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On February 3,2007, Drew Barrymore hosted SNL for the fifth time, becoming the second female host in the show's history to do so.
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Drew Barrymore hosted again on October 10,2009, becoming the first woman to host six times.
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In 1999, Drew Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.
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Dutton published a collection of Drew Barrymore's autobiographical essays in her book Wildflower in 2015, for which she narrated the audiobook version; it was a bestseller.