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American actress and film producer who made her acting debut in Altered States

Drew Blyth Barrymore is the granddaughter of John Barrymore. She made her acting debut when she appeared in advertisement when she was 11 months old. Her filming debut came in the 1980 movie Altered States. She became famous for her role in the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Barrymore acted in several successful movies including Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the Side, Everyone Says I Love You, The Wedding Singer and Lucky You. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 3, 2004. Drew hosted Saturday Night Live six times and became the first female to do so. She was also named Ambassador against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme in 2007.

Birth name	Drew Blyth Barrymore
Date of Birth	February 22, 1975
Place of Birth	Culver City, California, U.S.
Occupations	Actress, Producer, Director
Spouse (s)	Jeremy Thomas (1994–1995), Tom Green (2001–2002)
Years active	1978–present

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I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the bu** with steroids, and I feel like they’ll eat the husband alive on their wedding day. It just terrifies me — I don’t relate to that at all. I’m not at that place in my life where I want to play a character who says, ‘I just have to get married.’

— Drew Barrymore doesn’t relate to movies which depict women as wedding obsessed and needy / August 25, 2010

I need them (rom-coms) at the end of a crap day — a nice happy ending and a fairytale. On the other hand I like movies that are very grounded in reality but still maintain their comedy.

— Drew Barrymore watches romantic comedies when she had a bad day / August 25, 2010

I have been in long-distance relationships my whole life and I find that they take an extraordinary amount of work. I don’t think they are much different from a relationship when you live across the street. They just take work and you want that work to be something that’s fun and reciprocal. The best kinds of relationships are the ones where you don’t feel like you are doing all the work and that the other person is never meeting you half-way. I think that just breeds an empty, lonely resentment. But if you both bend together and go, ‘We’re going to fix this, we are going to make it work, we are going to make plans so that we feel we have things to look forward to…’

— Drew Barrymore admits long distance relationships are hard / August 23, 2010

I’m a really horrible driver. [I'm] really fast and I don’t pay any attention to anything that’s going on around me. I’m completely fiddling with my radio and lost in my music and just sort of looking out the window at the billboards and going: ‘Oh that looks interesting’. And then I’m like: ‘When was the last time I actually looked at the road?’

— Drew Barrymore admits she is a horrible driver / August 22, 2010

I have been much more objective about my childhood and my relationship with my mother in these last few years. There were several low points in my life and they all helped make up my character so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed. It helped me grow and change and become better and stronger. I feel excited about the last few years of my life. I pride myself on them and I didn’t know I had that much discipline. I’ve worked really hard. I want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

— Drew Barrymore / August 20, 2010

I didn’t have the kind of childhood or family life that would have given me any perspective on what a happy home or relationship would feel like. So I haven’t had as much success in my relationships as I would have liked. You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you. You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realized it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

— Drew Barrymore / August 20, 2010

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