Drew Barrymore
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| 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. |