Birth name: Drew Blythe Barrymore
Gender: Female
Spouse: Tom Green (7 July 2001 - 15 October 2002) (divorced) (filed 17 December 2001) Jeremy Thomas (20 March 1994 - 28 April 1994) (divorced)
Profession: Actress
Nickname: D
Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
She was the Guest Host for "Saturday Night Live" (1975) when viewers voted that Andy Kaufman would never be allowed to return to the show.
"I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?"
"There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
"If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me."
"I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how you learn."
"I believe you can be the person that you dream of being."
"I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings."
-- on her favorite movies to make."
Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe; then I wash my face and check my karma."
- on her morning routine."
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
"I love levity. As crazy as I am, I just love to laugh!"
Salary Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) $14,000,000 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) $250,000 (scale) Donnie Darko (2001) $500,000 Charlie's Angels (2000) $9,000,000 Ever After (1998) $3,000,000 Scream (1996) $500,000 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $75,000
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Scion of the legendary acting family, at the age of five this once-precocious cherub landed a small part as William Hurt's daughter in Altered States and a larger one in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial two years later. She played major roles in other filmsincluding Irreconcilable Differences (1984) and two Stephen King adaptations, Firestarter (1984) and Cat's Eye (1985)-but her career was overshadowed in the late 1980s by her highly publicized bouts with alcohol and drugs (and a resulting suicide attempt), an eerie echo of her family's troubled history. 1989 saw the release of Far From Home her first adolescent movie role. In 1990 she coauthored a book about her substance dependencies and subsequent rehabilitation, and in 1992 she made further news by posing nude for a national magazine to promote her sexually charged movie Poison Ivy (1992). That same year she had a provocative (but brief) part as a murder witness in The Sketch Artist co-starred in the well-received independent feature Guncrazy (1992), and was one of three actresses to play the headline-making "Long Island Lolita" in the telefilm The Amy Fisher Story (1993). She then appeared in a provocative series of print ads for Guess Jeans. She had a sexy cameo in Wayne's World 2 (1993), then costarred in the distaff Western Bad Girls (1994). Her star rose dramatically in 1995 with the release of Boys on the Side, Mad Love and Batman Forever.
Related Links:
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Drew Barrymore