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Drew Barrymore Timeline

Drew Barrymore is born into the infamous Barrymore family in Culver City, California to John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore (born Ildiko Jaid Mako). Her grandfather is John Barrymore and her grandmother is Dolores Costello. Her great aunt and uncle are Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore. Makes her debut in a dog food commercial. During the take, she is bitten by her canine co-star. Plays Bobby, a baby boy, in her acting debut in the TV movie Suddenly, Love. Plays Margaret Jessup in her theatrical debut in Altered States. Plays Gertie in the Steven Spielberg movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Hosts Saturday Night Live, the youngest person ever to do so. Gets her first leading role playing Charlene 'Charlie' McGee in Stephen King's Firestarter with Heather Locklear. Plays Casey Brodsky in Irreconcilable Differences. Begins drinking alcohol. Her parents break up. Begins smoking marijuana. Begins snorting cocaine. She enters rehab. She and her mom, Jaid, have a falling out. Publishes her autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Plays Ivy in Poison Ivy. The movie rekindles her career. Models as a Guess? girl. Marries Jeremy Thomas, a Los Angeles bar owner. They are married at his bar by a clairvoyant minister from a psychic hotline. Divorces Jeremy Thomas. Poses nude in Playboy. Steven Spielberg, her godfather, sends her a quilt for her upcoming birthday that says "Cover Yourself Up". Wrapped within the quilt is the Playboy issue in which she posed nude. Inside the magazine, every nude picture of her has been altered by Spielberg's art department in such a way that she is fully clothed. Plays Sugar in Batman Forever with Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, and Nicole Kidman. Poses as Marilyn Monroe on the cover of John Kennedy Jr.'s magazine, George. On the Late Show with David Letterman she climbs up on Letterman's desk and flashes her breasts at him as a birthday present. Plays Casey Becker in Scream with David Arquette, Courteney Cox-Arquette, and Neve Campbell. Is named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People magazine. Plays Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. She meets Luke Wilson on the set and they begin a romance. Plays Karen Pomeroy in Donnie Darko. Her $3,000,000 mansion catches fire while she and fiance Tom Green are sleeping. They make it out alive but the mansion is ruined. Marries Tom Green in the South Pacific. Marries Tom Green a second time for the benefit of family and friends in a private ceremony in Malibu. Tom Green files for divorce. The divorce is finalized. Plays Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. Plays Nancy Kendricks in Duplex with Ben Stiller. Plays Lucy Whitmore in 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler. Is engaged to Fabrizio Moretti, drummer for The Strokes. Receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her father, John Drew Barrymore, dies. Before he does, Drew flies herself and her mother to New York to reunite the family. Drew had been quietly paying for her dad's bone marrow cancer treatment for the last two years. Stars in the Farrelly Brothers comedy, Fever Pitch, with Jimmy Fallon. It is announced that she will be the new face of Italian fashion house Missoni.