By Marie Reader
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, producer, talk show host and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received several awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for nine Emmy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. She is also the Chief Gifting Officer for Etsy as of January 2024.
Barrymore achieved fame as a child actress with her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Following a highly publicized childhood marked by drug and alcohol abuse, she released an autobiography Little Girl Lost, which became a New York Times bestseller. She starred in a string of successful films during the 1990s and 2000s, including Charlie’s Angels, Poison Ivy, Boys on the Side, Mad Love, Batman Forever, Scream, and Ever After. Barrymore starred with Adam Sandler in the films: The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, and Blended. Her other films include Firestarter, Donnie Darko, Riding in Cars with Boys, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Fever Pitch, Music and Lyrics, Going the Distance, Big Miracle, and Miss You Already. She also starred in her directorial debut film Whip It. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in Grey Gardens. She starred in the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet and currently hosts her syndicated talk show The Drew Barrymore Show. In September 2023, she announced she would return to the show without writers during the ongoing WGA strike, but after backlash, she reversed the decision the same month.
Barrymore is the founder of the production company Flower Films. It produced several projects in which she has starred. She launched a range of cosmetics under the Flower banner in 2013, which has grown to include lines in perfume, hair products and eyewear. Her other business ventures include a range of wines, homeware and clothing. In 2014, Barrymore released the New York Times bestselling photobook Find It in Everything of photographs she had taken over the span of a decade of everyday situations in the shape of a heart, including a discarded straw wrapper, a hole in a T-shirt, and a scallion in a bowl of miso soup. E. P. Dutton published a collection of Barrymore’s autobiographical essays in her New York Times bestselling book Wildflower in 2015, for which she also narrated the audiobook version.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Amerigo Vespucci (explorer) –
- Francisco I. Madero (Mexican President; was assassinated) –
- Ed Flanders (actor) –
- Jonas Savimbi (Angola’s rebel leader) –
- Chuck Jones (Warner Bros. animator, created Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck) –
- Dennis Johnson (basketball player) –
Born
- George Washington (1st U.S. president) –
- Rembrandt Peale (artist) –
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) –
- Edward Moore “Teddy” Kennedy (politician) –
- George “Sparky” Anderson (baseball manager) –
- Steve Irwin (herpetologist and host of The Crocodile Hunter) –
- Rachel Dratch (actress) –
- Drew Barrymore (actress) –
Events
- Popcorn was first introduced to English colonists by Native Americans–
- Florida Purchase treaty signed–
- The F.W. Woolworth discount store chain started in Utica, New York–
- Ancient Egyptian obelisk that had been erected in Central Park was officially presented to New York City–
- A fist fight broke out on the Senate floor between Senator John McLaurin and Senator Ben Tillman–
- Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast speech from the White House–
- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Zarand in Iran–
- 10-pound 14-ounce ‘aweoweo caught, Penguin Bank, O’ahu, Hawaii–
- A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand–
- Babe Ruth’s 1923 World Series pocket watch sold for $717,000 at auction–
- Baseball bat that belonged to Shoeless Joe Jackson sold for $958,000 at auction–
Weather
- The Susquehanna River ice bridge at Havre de Grace, Maryland, began to break up after 40 days of use–
- 11 inches of snow fell in Blue Lick, Missouri–
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