Drew Barrymore

Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer. In the wake of this sudden stardom, she enjoyed a notoriously reckless and indulgent childhood, drinking alcoholic beverages drunk by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana high 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 whore in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of 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 sex 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, as part of a dance for his birthday.

She also modeled in a series of Guess? jeans advertisements during this time. In addition to the light-hearted sex comedies that she has typically starred in, she has also recently explored more dramatic naked 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) hell raiser.

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. Barrymore has also publicly declared herself to be bisexual, revealing that she had slept with many lesbian women as a teenager and is still very interested in women sexually.

Drew Barrymore is producing a film based on the book "He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys." Barrymore will produce the New Line Cinema film under her Flower Films and does not plan to appear on screen, The Hollywood Reporter said. The book was adapted for screen by its authors, Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, who wrote for HBO's hit comedy, "Sex and the City."