Drew Barrymore as Charlene
Andrew and Vicky McGee met while earning money as guinea pigs for an experiment at college. The experiment was shrouded in suspicion and mystery, and seemed to be related to psychic abilities. The two were married and had a daughter Charile, who has the ability to start fires by merely thinking about it. Naturally, the government takes a great interest in Charlie, and operatives from the secret department known as "The Shop" want to quarrantine and study her.
Biography for Drew Barrymore
Date of birth
22 February 1975
Culver City, California, USA
Birth name
Drew Blythe Barrymore
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Mini 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.
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Trivia
She was the Guest Host for Saturday Night Live when viewers voted that Andy Kaufman would never be allowed to return to the show.
Never finished high school.
Originally offered the lead role in Scream (1996) but chose to play Casey Becker because she thought it would be more fun.
Was engaged to Jamie Walters for a brief period of time.
(1997) Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
Granddaughter of actor John Barrymore.
Great-granddaughter of silent film actor Maurice Costello.
She is half Hungarian from her mother's side.
Steven Spielberg is her godfather.
Daughter of John Drew Barrymore and Ildiko Jaid.
(1984) Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her birthday with a note "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of the January 1995 issue of Playboy Magazine for which she posed nude, with the pictures altered by Spielberg's art department so that she appeared fully clothed.
Godmother to Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean.
Her favorite poet is e.e. cummings.
She has 6 tattoos : a cross on her right ankle; a blue moon on her right big toe; a butterfly below her naval; a daisy on her inner left hip; on the middle of her back she has a cross held by an angel with a bar blocking out the name "JAIMIE" (ex-boyfriend); on her lower right back she has an angel with a cross bearing the name of her mother "JAID."
Won the 1999 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award for favorite movie actress.
She is allergic to garlic, bee stings, perfume and coffee.
As a child, Drew auditioned for the role of Carol Ann in Poltergeist.
She is vegan: doesn't eat any seafood, animal products or bi-products, and doesn't wear any, either (leather, sude, fur, etc.).
Was the youngest person to ever host Saturday Night Live at seven years old.
Was offered the leading part of Nomi Malone in Showgirls (1995).
Turned down an opportunity to appear on the cover of "Vogue" magazine because they wanted her to wear clothes by a company that dealt in fur/leather. A committed vegan, she would only agree to do the cover if she could wear cruelty-free clothing from Stella McCartney.
(February 2001) Drew's $3 million dollar Beverly Hills mansion caught fire while she and fiance Tom Green (III) were inside sleeping. The couple made it safely out, but the house was ruined.
During an appearance on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show", she said that she never watches any of the movies she stars in.
(July 2001) Barrymore and Tom Green married in a private ceremony in Malibu.
Published an autobiographic book titled 'Little Girl Lost' (co-written by herself and contributor Todd Gold) in 1990. At the time of completing the book she was 14.
Dated Eric Erlandson from the band Hole.
Married Green twice, 1st eloping to the South Pacific in March, then in 7 July before family and friends in a ceremony in Malibu, California.
She and Green honeymooned in Ireland.
[17/12/01] Drew's husband, Tom Green, unexpectedly files for divorce. The papers, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, cite "irreconcilable differences" (yes, like her movie) as the reason. No comment yet from Barrymore's camp, but according to divorce papers, the couple officially separated last week, on December 11.
Middle name Blythe was the original surname of the her great-grandfather, Maurice (1847-1905), who changed it to Barrymore. "Drew" was her great-grandmother's Georgiana's (1855-1893), maiden name.
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Personal quotes
"I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?"
"There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
"If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me."
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Scion of the legendary acting family, at the age of five this once-precocious cherub landed a small part as William Hurt's daughter in Altered States and a larger one in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial two years later. She played major roles in other filmsincluding Irreconcilable Differences (1984) and two Stephen King adaptations, Firestarter (1984) and Cat's Eye (1985)-but her career was overshadowed in the late 1980s by her highly publicized bouts with alcohol and drugs (and a resulting suicide attempt), an eerie echo of her family's troubled history. 1989 saw the release of Far From Home her first adolescent movie role. In 1990 she coauthored a book about her substance dependencies and subsequent rehabilitation, and in 1992 she made further news by posing nude for a national magazine to promote her sexually charged movie Poison Ivy (1992). That same year she had a provocative (but brief) part as a murder witness in The Sketch Artist co-starred in the well-received independent feature Guncrazy (1992), and was one of three actresses to play the headline-making "Long Island Lolita" in the telefilm The Amy Fisher Story (1993). She then appeared in a provocative series of print ads for Guess Jeans. She had a sexy cameo in Wayne's World 2 (1993), then costarred in the distaff Western Bad Girls (1994). Her star rose dramatically in 1995 with the release of Boys on the Side, Mad Love and Batman Forever.
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Barbarella (2002) .... Barbarella
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) .... Penny
Duplex (2002)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) .... Beverly Ann D'Onofrio
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) .... Mr. Davidson's Receptionist
Donnie Darko (2001) .... Ms. Karen Pomeroy
So Love Returns (2000)
Charlie's Angels (2000) .... Dylan Sanders
... aka 3 Engel f�r Charlie (2000) (Germany)
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000) (TV) .... Host
Titan A.E. (2000) (voice) .... Akima
... aka Titan: After Earth (2000) (USA: promotional title)
Skipped Parts (2000) .... Fantasy Girl
... aka Wonder of Sex, The (2000) (UK)
Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) (TV) (voice) .... Olive
Never Been Kissed (1999) .... Josie 'Josie Grossie' Geller
Home Fries (1998) .... Sally Jackson
"Hercules" (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Atalanta/Ariadne
... aka "Disney's Hercules" (1998) (USA)
Ever After (1998) .... Danielle De Barbarac
Wedding Singer, The (1998) .... Julia 'Jules' Sullivan
Wishful Thinking (1997) .... Lena
Best Men (1997) .... Hope
Like a Lady (1996) .... The Jockey
Making of 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial', The (1996) (V) .... Herself
Scream (1996) .... Casey Becker
Everyone Says I Love You (1996) .... Skylar
Batman Forever (1995) .... Sugar
... aka Forever (1995/I) (USA: title without logo)
Mad Love (1995) .... Casey Roberts
Boys on the Side (1995) .... Holly Pulchik/Lincoln
... aka Avec ou sans hommes (1995) (France)
Inside the Goldmine (1994) .... Daisy
100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994) (TV) .... Herself
Bad Girls (1994) .... Lilly Laronette
Doppelganger (1993) .... Holly Gooding
... aka Doppelganger: The Evil Within (1993) (USA)
Wayne's World 2 (1993) .... Bjergen Kjergen
Amy Fisher Story, The (1993) (TV) .... Amy Fisher
... aka Beyond Control (1993) (TV)
No Place to Hide (1992) .... Tinsel Hanley
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) .... Vampire Victim #1
... aka Lost in Time (1992)
... aka Space Shift: Waxwork II (1992)
Guncrazy (1992) .... Anita Minteer
"2000 Malibu Road" (1992) TV Series .... Lindsay Rule
Sketch Artist (1992) (TV) .... Daisy
Poison Ivy (1992) .... Ivy
Motorama (1991) .... Fantasy Girl
15 and Getting Straight (1989) (TV) .... Susan
Far from Home (1989) .... Joleen Cox
See You in the Morning (1989) .... Cathy
Conspiracy of Love (1987) (TV) .... Jody Woldaski
"Star Fairies" (1986) TV Series (voice) .... Hillary
Babes in Toyland (1986) (TV) .... Lisa Piper
Cat's Eye (1985) .... Our Girl/Amanda (segment "The General")
... aka Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985)
Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration (1985) (TV) .... Herself
Irreconcilable Differences (1984) .... Casey Brodsky
Firestarter (1984) .... Charlene 'Charlie' McGee
EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration (1982) (TV) .... Herself
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) .... Gertie
... aka E.T. (1982) (USA: short title)
Altered States (1980) .... Margaret Jessup
Bogie (1980) (TV) .... Leslie Bogart
Suddenly, Love (1978) (TV) .... Bobby Graham
Other Drew Barrymore pages on Women of Horror:
Cat's Eye Scream