Drew Barrymore

Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress, screenwriter, film director, producer, model and author who is a descendant of the Barrymore family of well-known American stage and cinema actors, and is the granddaughter of film legend John Barrymor

Born: February 22, 1975 (age 39), Culver City, California, United States
Height: 1.63 m
Spouse: Will Kopelman (m. 2012), Tom Green (m. 2001–2002), Jeremy Thomas (m. 1994–1995)
Children: Olive Barrymore Kopelman, Frankie Barrymore Kopelman
Parents: John Drew Barrymore, Jaid Barrymore

Early life and family

Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, to American actor John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore (ne Mak),an aspiring actress. Barrymore's mother was born in a Displaced persons camp in Brannenburg, West Germany, to Hungarian World War II refugees. Barrymore's father was of English, Irish, and German ancestry.Her parents divorced in 1984, when she was nine years old.She is one of five children with a half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore,who is also an actor, and two half-sisters, Blyth Dolores Barrymore and Jessica Blyth Barrymore (Brahma).

Barrymore was born into acting: all of her great-grandparents - Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and Maurice Costello and Mae Costello (ne Altschuk)- as well as her paternal grandparents, John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were actors;John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.She is the niece of Diana Barrymore and the grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello,the great-great-granddaughter of John Drew and actress Louisa Lane Drew, and the great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor, writer and director Sidney Drew.She is also the god-daughter of director Steven Spielbergand Sophia Loren.

Career
Early career

Barrymore's career began when she was auditioned for a dog food commercial when she was eleven months old.[4] When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers were afraid she would cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job.[4] She made her feature film debut in Altered States (1980), in which she had a small part.A year later, she landed the role of Gertie, the younger sister of Elliott, in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which made her one of the most famous child stars of the time and earned her the Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1982.She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert stated: "Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm."

Personal life

Barrymore stated during an appearance talk show The View that she enjoys practicing Judaism and is thinking of converting. "It's a beautiful faith and I'm so honored to be around it. It's so family-oriented [and] the stories are so beautiful and it's incredibly enlightening. I'm really happy."

Concerning her sexuality, in an interview with Contact Music in 2003, Barrymore said "Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual."Barrymore was quoted in 2004 as saying, "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. When I was younger I used to go with lots of women. Totally. I love it".[80] In March 2007, former magazine editor Jane Pratt claimed on her Sirius Satellite Radio show that she had a romance with Barrymore in the mid-1990s.

Films