Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, director, producer, screenwriter, and model. She is best known for her various film roles, including Gertie in Steven Spielberg's 1982 sci-fi film E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Sugar in the 1995 superhero film Batman Forever, Dylan Sanders in the 2000 action comedy film Charlie's Angels and its 2003 sequel, Lucy Whitmore in the 2004 romantic comedy film 50 First Dates, Lindsey Meeks in the 2005 sports comedy-drama film Fever Pitch, Rachel Kramer in the 2012 Universal Pictures drama film Big Miracle, and Lauren Reynolds in the 2014 romantic comedy film Blended. She is also well-known for her voice roles, such as the titular character of the 1999 3D computer-animated Christmas comedy film Olive, the Other Reindeer, Akima Kunimoto in Don Bluth's 2000 sci-fi animated film Titan A.E., and Maggie Dunlop in the 2006 film adaptation of Curious George.
For Disney, she voiced Chloe in the 2008 comedy film Beverly Hills Chihuahua. She also co-hosted several Disney television specials in the 1980s, including "Epcot Center: The Opening Celebration" (alongside Danny Kaye), as well as "Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration" (alongside John Forsythe). Additionally, she played Casey Roberts in the 1995 Touchstone Pictures film Mad Love and appeared in the Bill Nye the Science Guy episodes "Flowers" and "Life Cycles".
Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, to actor John Drew Barrymore and aspiring actress Jaid Barrymore (born Ildikó Jaid Makó), who was born in a displaced persons camp in Brannenburg, West Germany, to Hungarian World War II refugees. Through her father, Barrymore has three older half-siblings, including famous actor John Blyth Barrymore. Her parents divorced in 1984. In 2023, Barrymore displayed an AncestryDNA test onscreen on her talk show, which showed that her genetic ancestry is primarily European, with 6% Northern Indian.
Barrymore was born into an acting family. All of her paternal great-grandparents, Maurice and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice and Mae Costello (née Altschuk), and her paternal grandparents, John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were actors, with John being arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation. Barrymore is a niece of Diana Barrymore, a grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Helene Costello, and a great-great-granddaughter of Irish-born John and English-born Louisa Lane Drew, all of whom were also actors. She is a great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor, writer and director Sidney Drew.
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