Bio on Drew
Barrymore
Drew blythe barrymore
was born on february 22, 1975. parented by the famous hollywood-royalty
barrymore family. she first acted at the tender age of 11 months
in a tv commercial. at 7, drew was starring in box-office record-breaker
e.t. (1982). the flip side of this child stardom was revealed when
she dropped out of school at 14 and published her co-written autobiography,
little girl lost (1990). drinking at 9, dope-smoking at 10, and
coke-snorting at 12 were some of the stops on barrymore's descent.
after a string of roles in little-seen movies, drew played an amoral
teen seductress in poison ivy (1992). the role brought her minor-icon
status that was further cemented by a guess? add shot by ellen von
unwerth. it was a jeans ad campaign which highlighted her white
trash sex appeal. barrymore tends to fare best in high-spirited,
low-class projects like The Amy Fisher Story (tv movie, 1993), guncrazy
(1992), and the short-lived twentysomething soap 2000 Malibu Road
(1992), rather than in mid-budget hollywood fodder like bad girls
(1994), boys on the side (1995), and mad love (1995). Less than
two months after her march 1994 marriage to an l.a. bar owner, drew
filed for divorce; she subsequently became involved with hole guitarist
eric erlandson, whose praises she invariably sang on her many TV
talk show appearances. after many nude public appearances, including
the david letterman talk show, and the china club, drew has finally
begun to settle down. she has begun to throw off her bad girl attitude
and settle for a more womanly one. drew is now a spokesperson, and
actress for a women's condom commercial which is to air on mtv.
drew's latest moves in showbiz, include her excellent performance
in wes craven's "scream", and her latest role in woody allen's "everyone
says i love you." coming in 1997, fans of drew's acting can see
her in "home fries", "best men", and "the wedding singer". on a
recent film shoot, drew met her latest love, luke wilson, whom she
seems to enjoy quite a bit.
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