Drew Barrymore biography

Being born in Hollywood with the name Barrymore, carries many expectations. Drew has done just about everything to live up to all of these. Before her first birthday she had appeared in her first TV commercial and, with the exception of an appearance in a TV-movie "Suddenly Love" at 2, she waited until the age of four to make her screendebut as William Hurt's daughter in the Ken Russell movie "Altered States" (1980). From there she went to stardom at 7 after E.T. "The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982). She spent the next years going through drug-abuse and alcoholism.

After a break for rehabilitation she has returned to the screen averaging more than four projects a year since 1992, slowly re-establishing herself.