Drew Barrymore was born Drew Blythe Barrymore on February 22, 1975, in in Los Angeles, California. Barrymore is the daughter of actor John Drew Barrymore Jr. and Ildiko Jaid, but her family tree of actors doesn't end there: Her great-grandparents, Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew, and grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were also actors.
In a show of screen credibility, Barrymore was cast in the ensemble of Woody Allen's philosophical musical "Everyone Says I Love You" (1996), gracefully and sympathetically portraying a tony New York City daughter of privilege. In the first of many successful romantic comedies, she had a huge hit with 1998's "The Wedding Singer," where she was sweetly captivating as a New Jersey waitress who falls for Adam Sandler's aspiring entertainer. The same year, she happily took on the character of Cinderella in the charming and affirming romance "Ever After," embroidering the story with an empowering, modern sensibility that would become a common theme throughout her career, as it mirrored her own hard-won evolution.
Though some may have suspected that her millennial transition from sweetheart to skull-cracker in Charlie's Angels may have signaled a shift towards more action oriented roles -- and despite her return to the role in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) -- Barrymore once again charmed audiences with another emotional comedy, Riding in Cars With Boys in 2001, while Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) found Drew in the role of long-suffering girlfriend alongside Sam Rockwell's unlikely CIA operative.
In a show of screen credibility, Barrymore was cast in the ensemble of Woody Allen's philosophical musical "Everyone Says I Love You" (1996), gracefully and sympathetically portraying a tony New York City daughter of privilege. In the first of many successful romantic comedies, she had a huge hit with 1998's "The Wedding Singer," where she was sweetly captivating as a New Jersey waitress who falls for Adam Sandler's aspiring entertainer. The same year, she happily took on the character of Cinderella in the charming and affirming romance "Ever After," embroidering the story with an empowering, modern sensibility that would become a common theme throughout her career, as it mirrored her own hard-won evolution.
Though some may have suspected that her millennial transition from sweetheart to skull-cracker in Charlie's Angels may have signaled a shift towards more action oriented roles -- and despite her return to the role in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) -- Barrymore once again charmed audiences with another emotional comedy, Riding in Cars With Boys in 2001, while Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) found Drew in the role of long-suffering girlfriend alongside Sam Rockwell's unlikely CIA operative.
