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female celebrities - Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore
Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer.
Her family
She is the granddaughter of stage actor John Barrymore, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore. Her father, John Drew Barrymore, and half-brother, John Blyth, are also actors (although they haven't experienced the critical or commercial success the other Barrymores have enjoyed). "Drew" was the maiden name of her great-grandmother, Georgiana; "Blythe" was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice. Drew's mother is Hungarian-born actress and model, Ildiko Jaid Mako (b. 1944).
Career
Barrymore's career began at the age of 11 months, when she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared litigation, though Barrymore merely laughed the incident off. She shot to fame as a child actor when she co-starred in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 7, on November 20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest ever guest host of the weekly TV program Saturday Night Live. She performed in a skit where she revealed that she had killed E.T.
Drew Barrymore on the cover of Playboy, January 1995
Biography
In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured a notoriously troubled childhood, drinking alcoholic beverages by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore later described this early period of her life in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Though overcoming her substance abuse problems by the time she entered adulthood, Barrymore maintained her "bad girl" image, and in fact leveraged her new found role as a sex symbol to stage a career comeback in the 1990s, playing a teenage seductress in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of U.S. magazine Playboy. Steven Spielberg, Barrymore's godfather, gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of her Playboy appearance, with the pictures altered by his art department so that she appeared fully clothed. At that time she had also appeared nude in her last five movies. During a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore shocked the normally unflappable host by climbing onto his desk and flashing her breasts at him (but with her back to the camera), as part of a dance for his birthday. She also modelled in a series of Guess? jeans advertisements during this time.
Drew Barrymore on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995, immediately after notoriously flashing the host on-air for his birthday.Barrymore has continued to be a highly bankable movie actress. Though her playful sex appeal has undoubtedly helped her remain in the media spotlight, she has also established a substantial career behind the scenes, despite never finishing high school. She has produced several films, including the highly successful Charlie's Angels movie adaptation and its sequel. In addition to the light-hearted romantic comedies that she has typically starred in, she has also recently explored more dramatic roles in movies such as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and the cult favorite Donnie Darko, of which she was also the executive producer. Barrymore has started to receive more notice both as a serious actress and a savvy Hollywood "player", though without losing her reputation as a sex symbol and (occasional) hellraiser.
Barrymore's career makes for colorful copy. In the words of Yahoo! Movies:
Heir to a Hollywood dynasty, child star, prepubescent drug and alcohol abuser, teenage sexpot, and resurrected vessel of celluloid purity, Drew Barrymore is nothing if not the embodiment of the rise and fall of Hollywood fortunes, self-reinvention, and the healing powers of good PR.
On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Barrymore was married to Welsh bartender turned bar owner, Jeremy Thomas, from March 20 to April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001). She is currently dating drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes. Barrymore has also publicly declared herself to be bisexual, revealing that she had slept with many women as a teenager and is still very interested in women sexually.
Trivia
Barrymore was delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss (interview on The Tonight Show, January 22, 2003).
She is the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
She has 6 tattoos: a crescent moon on her big toe, a cross with ivy on her lower leg, a butterfly on her stomach, a daisy on her hip, and 2 angels on her lower back (one has a banner with her mother's name, Jaid, and the other has the name James--a tribute to her then-boyfriend Jamie Walters).
Selected filmography by date
Barrymore (right) with Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz in Charlie's Angels (2000)Altered States (1980)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Firestarter (1984)
Cat's Eye (1985)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Wayne's World 2 (1993) (Cameo)
Bad Girls (1994)
Boys on the Side (1995)
Mad Love (1995)
Batman Forever (1995)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Scream (1996)
Wishful Thinking (1997)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Ever After (1998)
Home Fries (1998)
Never Been Kissed (1999) (also producer)
Titan A.E. (2000) (voice)
Charlie's Angels (2000) (also producer)
Donnie Darko (2001) (also executive producer)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) (Cameo)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (also producer)
Duplex (2003) (also producer)
50 First Dates (2004)
Fever Pitch (2005) (also producer)
Curious George (2006) (voice) (currently filming)
Lucky You (2006)
Selected filmography alpabetically
50 First Dates -2004
Altered States -1980
Bad Girls -1994
Batman Forever -1995
Boys on the Side -1995
Cat's Eye -1985
Charlie's Angels -2000 (also producer)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle -2003 (also producer)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind -2002
Curious George -2006 (voice)
Donnie Darko -2001 (also executive producer)
Duplex -2003 (also producer)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -1982
Ever After -1998
Everyone Says I Love You -1996
Fever Pitch -2005 (also producer)
Firestarter -1984
Freddy Got Fingered -2001 (Cameo)
Home Fries -1998
Lucky You -2006
Mad Love -1995
Never Been Kissed -1999 (also producer)
Poison Ivy -1992
Riding in Cars with Boys -2001
Scream -1996
The Wedding Singer -1998
Titan A.E. -2000 (voice)
Wayne's World 2 -1993 (Cameo)
Wishful Thinking -1997
female celebrities - Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku
Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980 in Watertown, Massachusetts) is an American actress who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as Bring It On and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling.
Personal life
Eliza was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to an Albanian father and Danish mother, and raised in the LDS Church, the faith of her mother (though she is not actively practicing). She has three older brothers, Aaron, Ben, and Nate, the latter of whom is also an actor. Dushku lives in the Los Angeles area with Nate, the youngest of her three brothers, whom she calls her "partner in crime."
A young Eliza appears in the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, True Lies.
Early career
Eliza came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. Along with her brother, she went to a commercial audition where she tripped on the stairs, bloodied her nose, and became an instant drama queen. She was chosen at the end of a five month search throughout the United States for the lead role of Alice, opposite Juliette Lewis in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. Dushku says that Dicaprio taught her how to deal with bullies and other high school dangers, for which she is grateful.
The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She would also have parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye, Love, as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race the Sun, as well as roles in a television movie and a short film.
Dushku took some time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington and Suffolk Universities in Boston.
Eliza Dushku in a promotional poster for the 2003 horror movie, Wrong Turn.
Later roles
After completing high school, Eliza returned to acting with the role of Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the entirety of the third season. She has also made guest appearances in Buffy's spin-off, Angel.
Because of her convincing role as a sociopath, she became an icon to many criminals. She was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said that:
I've been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young teenage girls to Death Row inmates? They write everything — disgusting things that you don't even want to know about. And they send me pictures — 'Oh, here's a picture of me before I was incarcerated!' — and there's some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, and a big gut. It's so creepy. Way more creepy than Buffy.
In 2000, she starred with Kirsten Dunst in the cheerleader comedy Bring It On, which was a surprising success at the box office that spawned a sequel. Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of his final adventure for his two characters, Jay and Silent Bob, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where Eliza co-starred with Shannon Elizabeth, Ali Larter, Ben Affleck, and others. After this, Dushku starred in Soul Survivors, opposite Ben Affleck's brother Casey, followed by a role in The New Guy.
Eliza in a guest appearance on That '70s Show, alongside actors Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher.Eliza then returned to work with Robert De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea, playing James Franco's junkie girlfriend and mother of his child. The film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews.
2003 saw the release of Wrong Turn, a horror film in which Eliza had the starring role, and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she also starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, Tru Davies, a medical student whose grant is pulled out from under her, forcing her to take a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again, an ability she used to right wrongful deaths. She also attempts to help her troubled family - a drug-addicted sister and a gambling-addicted brother.
On October 1, 2005, she announced at Wizard World Boston that shooting had begun for Nobel Son (to be released in 2006), in which she will star with Alan Rickman, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Peter Boyle. Eliza also announced that she would appear in a Broadway production entitled "Dog Sees God" in December of 2005.
Eliza Dushku Foundation
Dushku has started a new project with her father to help Camp Hale, a summer camp for inner-city Boston boys open since 1900, where the Dushku family are closely involved: the Eliza Dushku Foundation. Through the sale of props and fan memorabilia, the Dushkus hope to generate increased contributions in order to pay for the maintenance of Camp Hale for generations to come.
Filmography
Dushku's character tries on swimsuits in The New Guy.True Lies 2 (2007) - Dana Tasker
Nobel Son (2006) - City Hall
That 70's Show (2005 guest appearance, TV Series) - Sarah
Reading Rainbow (2005 guest appearance, TV Series) - Narrator
Tru Calling (2003-2005, TV Series) - Tru Davies
The Kiss (2003) - Megan
Punk'd (2003) - Herself
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003, Video Game) - Faith
Wrong Turn (2003) - Jessie Burlingame
City By the Sea (2002) - Gina
The New Guy (2002) - Danielle
Soul Survivors (2001) - Annabel
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - Sissy
Bring It On (2000) - Missy Pantone
Angel (2000, 2003 guest appearances, TV Series) - Faith
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998-2000, 2003 guest appearances, TV Series) - Faith
Race the Sun (1996) - Cindy Johnson
Journey (1995, TV) - Cat
Bye Bye, Love (1995) - Emma Carlson
True Lies (1994) - Dana Tasker
Fishing With George (1994)
This Boy's Life (1993) - Pearl
That Night (1992) - Alice Bloom
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