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Barrymore was born Drew Blythe Barrymore on February 22, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actor John Drew Barrymore Jr. and Ildiko Jaid Barrymore, 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....

However, Jaid soon began taking her daughter to night clubs, and it was at Studio 54 and the China Club that Barrymore developed a pre-teen fondness of drugs and alcohol. At 13, an enraged Barrymore became violent when she was unable to throw her mother out of the house. She was placed in a rehabilitation center and later wrote of the experience in...

Barrymore's luck began to change in 1995 when she co-founded a production company, Flower Films. That same year, she gave a solid performance in the film Boys on the Side, co-starring with Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker. The following year, she made a memorable terror-filled appearance in the blockbuster Scream and co-starred in Woody Allen...

In 1998, she proved her strength as a romantic leading lady when she co-starred in the popular comedy The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler and in Ever After, a version of the Cinderella story, with Anjelica Huston. In 1999, Barrymore earned her first credit as an executive producer with the likable comedy Never Been Kissed, in which she also starre...

Barrymore's next choice for the company was the dark drama Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The film, in which Barrymore also co-starred, became an instant cult classic and was nominated for more than a dozen independent film awards. In 2002, she appeared as the love interest of Chuck Barris in the critically acclaimed biopic Confessions of ...

Barrymore returned to the successful Charlie's Angels franchise in 2003 with Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. This time, she also brought actress Demi Moore and comedian Bernie Mac on board, and the film was another box-office smash. That same year, Flower Films released the comedy Duplex, in which Barrymore starred with Ben Stiller. The following ...

Flower Films — and Barrymore — kept busy over the next few years, producing such films as Fever Pitch (2005), Music and Lyrics (2007) and He's Just Not That Into You (2009). Additionally, the actress took roles in films like Lucky You (2007), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) and the biopic Grey Gardens (2009), in which she co-starred with Jessica Lan...

In 2009, Barrymore made her directorial debut with the roller-derby film Whip It, in which she also had a supporting role alongside Ellen Page and Marcia Gay Harden. In 2011, she directed the music video for the Best Coast song "Our Deal," which featured Chloë Grace Moretz, Miranda Cosgrove and Shailene Woodley, among others.

Barrymore continued to star in films including Going the Distance (2011), Big Miracle (2012), Blended (2014) and Miss You Already (2015). She also served as an executive producer and star of Netflix's zombie sitcom Santa Clarita Diet, alongside Timothy Olyphant, which ran for three seasons beginning in 2017. In 2019, Barrymore joined RuPaul and Fai...