Biography of Drew Barrymore

Success is not a gift

February 22, 1975 beautiful, sweet and sensual, the actress Drew Barrymore intersperses with the same elegance and vitality, brilliant roles to other busier, proving every time appealing qualities of irony and sensitivity. Children and adolescents were tormented by dropouts and misunderstandings families Drew tried to suffocate in recklessness. Once able to overcome all of this, however, proved as everyone is always given a second chance, and how we can recover it firmly in their lives. Coming from one of the most famous dynasties of actors of all time-his grandfather was the unsurpassed John Barrymore, and his great-uncles big Ethel and Lionel (themselves sons of important actors of the 19th century)-Drew Blythe Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, USA, on February 22, 1975 (the name Drew is chosen by the mother as a tribute to the paternal great-grandmother). The parents split up even before the baby is born. His father is actor John Barrymore Jr., that his ancestors more than the talent seems to have taken the habit for alcohol and narcotics. The mother Jaid is an aspiring actress, and between a trial and the other, also manages to plant the small Drew in some television commercials. After appearing in a hit tv series, debuted on the big screen in just five years, in a small role in the Sci-Fi "altered States" (Altered States, 1980) by Ken Russell. A fortuitous meeting with Director Steven Spielberg, who was struck by his fertile imagination, will be, in just six years, the small and tender hero of science fiction masterpiece, "E.T. The extra-terrestrial" (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982). The success was huge and immediate. The public remains captivated by the sweet and nice blonde girl, who proves an unlikely as appealingly maturity for his age. The success the smiles, but at home you feel the problems: the father shows up rarely, while her mother neglects to try and make a fortune as an actress. Drew has only twelve when a party starts doing drugs, and someone less when it begins to experience the thrill of alcohol. Adolescence will be a tough fight against the pressures of her friends older than doing drugs and alcohol, to which she uses mainly looking for a refuge from his sense of inadequacy and dissatisfaction for his dysfunctional family situation. The little Drew Barrymore hopes to find serenity in the work, but this did not prove sufficient. Towards the end of the ' 80 begins to heal, and despite the initial hesitations, shortly will show great strength of mind, allowing them to rise again after winning that big crash. Its excellent autobiography "Little Girl Lost" (written with the collaboration of the journalist Todd Gold), published in April 1990, tells the painful story and the arduous journey to Detox, this vibrant little girl, perhaps grown too quickly. Idle for several years, it will take a while before this new Drew to convince producers and directors have totally changed for the better on this one, his life. Fortunately in 1992 the actress back to great cinema, playing with convincing cruelty a wicked girl who sneaks into the life of a friend sconvolgendogliela, "my worst friend" (Poison Ivy) by Katt Shea Ruben, an intense drama-thriller by moralistic intent. After guest-starring on an unlikely western women, entitled "Bad Girls" (Bad Girls, 1994) by Jonathan Kaplan, in 1995 winds three big hits with three equally great interpretations: is Sugar, the sweet fiancee of the villain two-face in the sci-fi movie "Batman Forever" by Joel Schumacher; the young nuts who after all passively kills the boyfriend drug dealer in "about women" ("Boys on the Side) by Herbert Ross, thin film poised between drama and comedy; and the tender and rebellious girl mentally unstable which together with a classmate tries in vain to escape from the psychiatric clinic where they interned her parents, in the interesting "road-movie titled" mad love "(Mad Love) by Antonia Bird. Meanwhile, Drew together a friend his own production company, Flower Films, producing some of his later films, but also films of others, so, in addition to the great interpreter that everybody knows, even a skilled producer and genial writer of subjects. As an actress, winning again the laurels of audience and critics as free-spirited comedy of Woody Allen, interpreter "everyone says I love you" ("Everyone Says I Love You, 1996), and agrees to interpret a terrified girl being killed a few minutes after the beginning of the movie in the thriller" Scream "(Scream, 1996). Closes the twentieth century with two tasty and keep shining interpretations: one is that of the romantic heroine in England in the 16th century left his position to waitress to marry a handsome Prince in fairy-like "Cinderella-La leggenda di un amore" (Ever After-A Cinderella Story, 1998) by Andy Tennant, while the other and the shy and clumsy editor regaining lost confidence when an investigation should pose as a high schooler in "never been kissed" (Never Been Kissed , 1999) by Raja Gosnell, the first film that succeeds in producing through her Flower Films. In 2000 produces and interprets "Charlie's Angels" (Charlie's Angels) by McG, exhilarating action film inspired by a famous television series of the years ' 70, in which she and two other great actresses such as Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, embody three beautiful and brilliant girls trained in martial arts, which makes use of sophisticated technological equipment undertake to blow a ruffled revenge plan with kidnappings and murders that could cancel individual privacy worldwide. The film was a huge success, much to push Drew to realize, in 2003, a successful sequel, "Charlie's Angels: more than ever" (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle), directed by McG, and with the same protagonists. In 2001 offers one of his best performances in the poignant "I ragazzi della mia vita" (Riding in Cars with Boys) by Penny Marshall, the biopic that to tell the story alternates between a flashback after another, in which a boy traveling with his mother, recounts the story of their life together, when she was in the 60 's hippie America, an enterprising girl aspiring writer forced to give up the dream of going to college to raise a kid not wanted; After bickering and misunderstandings they discover at the end that really well, and she, now that is about to publish a book, will push her son to follow his dream of love. Two years after Drew Barrymore is just as great when playing the exciting and vibrant and sensitive Penny in ironic thriller "confessions of a dangerous mind" (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, 2003), directed by and starring George Clooney, raw portrait of the real story that concerns an American television presenter degli anni ' 60, which becomes a CIA agent is an attack by numerous murders. Ironic-sentimental roles, is now launched the girl impatiently from harassment of the Crone and intractable neighbour in tasty "Duplex for three" (Duplex, 2003) by Danny De Vito; the beautiful and lively Lucy that due to a disorder of the short memory forgotten every time her new boyfriend in the bizarre "50 times first dates" (50 First Dates, 2004) by Peter Segal; and the gentle management consultant committed to cope with manic sports passion of the guy in the sentimental "love at stake" (Fever Pitch, 2005) by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. On February 3, 2004 is a star with his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, deserved recognition for a charismatic performer and extremely professional, but extraordinarily strong and generous, especially for a woman whose childhood and marital mishaps have made rather than harder and detached, more sensitive and joyful living, especially thanks to the victories he has achieved and continues to achieve in life and work Day after day. Among his later works there is comedy "music and lyrics" (2007) where he starred with Hugh Grant. In 2009 he debuted as a Director with the movie "Whip It!," based on a novel by Shauna Cross. In 2012 is the protagonist of the film "Big Miracle", in which she plays Cindy Lowry, Director of Greenpeace in 1988 he saved three gray whales trapped in the ice of Alaska. Two years later she starred in "the hard way" (Blended, by Frank Coraci, 2014).
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