She became an actress known all over the world with the movie E. T.: Who is Drew Barrymore?

She was born on February 22, 1975, in Culver City, California, USA, to John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore, both actors. Drew has three siblings, John Blyth Barrymore, Blyth Dolores Barrymore, and Brahma (Jessica) Blyth Barrymore. Her parents divorced right after she was born.

Coming from an artistic family, Barrymore's career began when she was just a baby. Despite being bitten by a dog when she auditioned for a dog food commercial when she was 11 months old, little Drew started laughing, contrary to the expectations of the producers, and got her first role. When she was 3 years old, she met the audience in the TV series Suddenly Love.

Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, producer, talk show host and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received several awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for nine Emmy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004.

The actress, who had her first experience in front of the camera in 1980 with the movie Altered States, went on to star in Steven Spielberg's E.T. a year later. She would know her from the movie The Extra-Terrestrial.

She was seven years old when she performed on Saturday Night Live, the youngest host of all time. Barrymore, who was nominated for the Golden Globe best-supporting actress award for her performance in the 1984 film Irreconcilable Differences, also started using drugs and alcohol because she entered the glittering world of cinema at a very young age.

The actress, who found herself in front of the cameras before she had a childhood, smoked her first cigarette when she was only 9 years old and started using marijuana and cocaine at the age of 13. Barrymore describes that process and her experiences in her early teenage years in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost, in 1990.

The negative comments about Drew's bad girl image and film career were further strengthened with Poison Ivy, in which she played an adolescent who is adept at seducing men. The film was a great sales success when it hit the shelves on VHS in 1992. After she posed nude for the January 1995 issue of Playboy, Barrymore's adopted grandfather, Steven Spielberg, gave her a quilt as a 20th birthday present with the following note:
Shut yourself off!

However, Barrymore did not hesitate to display her nudity in the films she shot. When she climbed on Letterman's table and exposed her breasts on The Late Show with David Letterman, hosted by the famous talk show producer David Letterman and watched by millions, the whole of America was talking about her again. At that time, Barrymore also appeared in advertisements for Guess Jeans.

Barrymore, who had a brief but remarkable role in Wes Craven's film "Scream" in 1996, also appeared in Woody Allen's production "Everyone Says I Love You" the same year. These two films were an indication that Drew was getting wiser and were an opportunity for her career to take off again.

The actress appears mainly in leading roles in romantic comedies, including Wishful Thinking Best Men (1997), The Wedding Singer (1998), Ever After (1998), Home Fries (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999) and Skipped Parts (2000). She was in a busy working tempo, and her films supported her effort to break her bad image off stage and appear as a cute and entertaining person.

Barrymore, who played one of Charlie's Three Angels alongside Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu in "Charlie's Angels" in 2000, strengthened her career by appearing in the films "Skipped Parts", "So Love Returns" and "Donnie Darko" in the same year.

After a very short engagement with Jamie Walters, the actress got married to Tom Green in a ceremony held in Malibu in July 2001.

She starred in 2007's Lucky You.