Drew Barrymore Bio
Drew Barrymore is an American Actress, producer, director, host, author, model and entrepreneur. She was born Drew Blyth Barrymore on February 22, 1975, in Culver City, California. She appeared in Playboy in January 1995 at 19, adding the feature to her public career. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Barrymore has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-24-34.
Barrymore’s screen career began almost before she could understand what celebrity meant. After a small role in Altered States, she became internationally recognised as Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at the age of seven. The warmth and spontaneity she brought to the film made her one of Hollywood’s most famous child performers, but early success was followed by a turbulent adolescence and legal emancipation from her mother. During the early 1990s, she deliberately reshaped her image through more mature roles in Poison Ivy, Guncrazy, Bad Girls, Mad Love and Boys on the Side.
Her January 1995 Playboy cover and pictorial belonged to this period of bold reinvention. Barrymore was 19 when she posed for the magazine, appearing as a celebrity model rather than a Playmate of the Month. The photographs presented a young actress asserting control over an adult identity that stood far apart from the innocent child audiences remembered from E.T. Years later, she described the shoot as a comparatively restrained artistic moment while acknowledging that she had never anticipated how permanently such images would circulate online.
Steven Spielberg’s response has become part of the feature’s history, although it was less an endorsement than affectionate, paternal disapproval. For Barrymore’s twentieth birthday, her godfather sent her a quilt bearing the message “Cover yourself up,” along with altered copies of the Playboy photographs in which his art department had added clothing. Barrymore understood the gesture as evidence that Spielberg cared about her, and she humorously replied with photographs of herself dressed as a nun.
By the late 1990s, Barrymore had moved successfully from rebellious young celebrity to dependable leading actress. Scream gave her one of the decade’s most memorable opening scenes, while The Wedding Singer, Ever After and Never Been Kissed revealed her particular gift for romantic comedy. She co-founded Flower Films with Nancy Juvonen in 1995, creating a production company behind Charlie’s Angels, 50 First Dates, Donnie Darko, Music and Lyrics and Whip It, which also marked Barrymore’s feature-film directing debut.
Her later work expanded into television, publishing, beauty and lifestyle ventures. Barrymore won a Golden Globe for portraying Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens and eventually brought her conversational warmth to daytime television with The Drew Barrymore Show. Her Playboy appearance remains a vivid record of a transitional moment: a former child star rejecting the image assigned to her and testing the boundaries of adulthood in public. What followed was not a brief provocation, but a durable career shaped by acting, production, entrepreneurship and an unusual willingness to let audiences witness her continual reinvention.
