Biography
American actress and noted family, the daughter of John Drew Barrymore
and Idelko Jaid, who bears the name of an acting family that has been
famous for generations. By age 10, she had credits in several outstanding
films, "Altered States," "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,"
"Irreconcilable Differences" and "Firestarter." Poised
and a natural, at age seven she was a host on "Saturday Night
Live." When her parents separated, she was raised by her mom and
moved with ease into life in the fast lane. She entered her first rehab
for alcohol abuse at 13, relating that she had been snorting coke since
she was nine. The following year, in July 1989, she made a bungling
attempt at suicide when she cut her wrists with a kitchen knife. While
still a teenager she wrote a tell-all autobiography, "Little Girl
Lost," relating a deep and overwhelming period of loneliness from 6
to 16. Though she finally sobered up, no director would give her a chance
until she played a villainous teen-age sexpot in the campy "Poison
Ivy," 1992. That fall she was cast as the star in a CBS six-episode
pilot, "2000 Malibu Road." Totally comfortable "in her own
skin," she appeared nude on a summer cover of "Interview"
magazine, and with no inhibitions about nudity, has flashed her breasts in
nightclubs, for photographers and for Dave Letterman on his national talk
show. Barrymore made an impulsive marriage to Welsh-born Jeremy Thomas,
31, on 3/20/1994, shortly after 2:00 AM in an alley near Hollywood Blvd.
She had known him for six weeks and the marriage lasted for 29 days. In
1994 she also formed her own production company, "Flower Films."
Romping through life with a careless gaiety, Barrymore covered more ground
by age 21 than most people do in a lifetime. If she survives to maturity,
she has a good chance of becoming a fine actress, so natural before the
cameras that directors are amazed. Barrymore is estranged from her dad and
through the mid-90s, has little contact with her mom. From mid-1993 she
has lived with Eric Erlandson, 32, the blond guitarist of the band
"Hole." They met in Seattle when she was filming "Mad
Love," and a year later she is still discovering the layers of
experience that love brings.
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