Drew Barrymore

Birth Data

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.

Please visit our sponsor: Astrology Software Shop