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mlleguyly
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Today, I'm going to make you the self-portrait of Drew Barrymore.
Do You know who's Drew Barrymore?
Drew Barrymore is an American actress, model, producer and director.
She’s born on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California. Drew Blithe Barrymore comes from a reputed family of actor. Her great father is theater actor John Barrymore she is the little niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore. His father John Drew Barrymore and her half-brother John Blyth are also an actor but far less popular than the other Barrymore. His mother Jaid Barrymore is a German actress and producer. Moreover, she is the goddaughter of the famous Steven Spielberg great American film producer
Her career began when, at 11-months-old, she auditioned for a dog food commercial. When she was nipped by her canine co-star, the producers were afraid she would cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job. [After her film debut with a small role in Altered States (1980), he played Gertie in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which made her one of the most famous child stars of the time and earned her the Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Rebellious era
In the wake of her sudden stardom, Barrymore endured a notoriously troubled childhood. She was already a regular at the notorious Studio 54 as a young girl, smoking cigarettes at the age of nine, drinking alcohol by the time she was eleven, smoking marijuana at the age of twelve and snorting cocaine at the age of thirteen. Her nightlife and constant partying became a popular subject with the media. She was in rehab at the age of fourteen, where she spent eighteen months in an institution for the mentally ill. A suicide attempt, also at age fourteen, [contradictory] put her back in rehab, followed by a three-month stay with singer David Crosby and his wife. The stay was precipitated, Crosby said, because she "needed to be around some people that were committed to sobriety. «Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost. The following year, when she was 15, following a successful juvenile court petition for emancipation, she moved into her own apartment
Her career is precocious indeed, she made her first appearance at the age of 11 months in a commercial of food for dog
It is in 1982 that she will become celebrated aged of 7 years she obtains its role of Gertie in the film E.T. extraterrestrial which is produced by none other than the Great Steven Spielberg its godfather.
She reveals the extent of her talents 2 years later in the film Charlie of the novel Firestar of Stephen King she incarnates a girl possessing the power of pyro kinesis.
Her precocious celebrity will not be very beneficial because she discovers alcohol at the Smokes cannabis at 10 and takes cocaine at 12. The nightlife and constant celebrations that she leads become a popular topic in the media.
At the age of thirteen, she entered a rehab, but made a suicide attempt at age 14, which earned her a new stay in cure
She will describe later this period of her life in her autobiography published in 1990, Little Girl Lost. The following year, through an application by the juvenile court, she obtained her emancipation and moved into her own apartment in New York. At the age of 16, she decides to return to live with her parents, who, not agreeing, ask her to return to her apartment, but she did not support the rejection of her family, Made a second attempt at suicide at the age of 17. Because of this, she had to go back to rehab, but refused, which earned her a placement in a psychiatric hospital

Although she had separated from her drug problems by entering adulthood, she kept this image of a "bad girl", and exploited it even to revive her career in the 1990s, after a succession of small roles in series B films and on television. Drew plays in turn a seductress in Fleur de poison and a prostitute in the western feminine Belles de l'Ouest
Then she posed nude in the Playboy of January 1995. That same year, during the television show of David Letterman, she climbs on the desk of her host and shows her breasts as a birthday present.
It is from 1995 and 1996 that it returns to the cinema, first with the film Batman Forever or it has a role.
Drew continues on the road to success and reconquest of the public with gaily crazy comedies or romantic comedies such as Wedding Singer, with partner Adam Sandler. However, it is his role in Scream Casey Becker allowing it to gain greater notoriété1,6, although it has a small role.
It was in 1999 that her career took a new turn, since she began her career as a producer, via her production company Flower Films, created in 1995 with Nancy Juvonen, with films in which she played such as Collège Attitude and the popular films Charlie and her funny ladies and her sequel, in which the young actress-producer shares the starring with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. The enormous commercial successes of Charlie's Angels both consolidate his reputation and that of his production house.
She produces and shares the starring with Ben Stiller in the comedy potache A duplex for three, followed by Adam Sandler (also producer via her company Happy Madison Productions), which she finds in the romantic comedy Love and Amnesia, Excellent reviews and a huge movie success with $ 196.5 million in global revenues. It will henceforth be confined to this comico-romantic registrer
PUBLIC LIFE
In May 2007, the actress was appointed ambassador against hunger for the World Food Program, a UN agency and donated $ 1 million43.
Having a taste for photography, she makes photos for magazines and hopes to exhibit her works one day in a gallery
"For the last ten years, I have carried a Pentax everywhere with me. I took thousands of pictures. My friends, my travels, my evenings ... everything is in a reel. I'm finally archiving them. My dream? Exhibit in a gallery. "
When she did not turn for the movies and television, she became the spokesperson and model of cosmetics Cover
Drew Barrymore is bisexual, and stated that "a woman and a woman are beautiful as a man and a woman are."
She was married to bartender Jeremy Thomas from March 20 to April 28, 1994, went out with Edward Norton in 1999, remarried to comedian Tom Greendu July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001).
From 2002 to 2006, she lived with Fabrizio Moretti, the drummer of The Strokes.
In 2007, she lives with actor Justin Long, whom she separates a year later. In August 2010, the actress officially announces their definitive break on the shooting of their joint film Too far for you.
On June 2, 2012, she married the art consultant Will Kopelman. They have two daughters, Olive Barrymore Kopelman born on September 26, 2012, and Frankie Barrymore Kopelman, born on April 22, 2014. The US media announced their divorce on April 2, 2016, which would be justified by a disagreement regarding their place of life, Drew Barrymore wishing to move to Los Angeles while her husband preferred to stay in New York.
She is also the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

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mlleguyly
Nov. 23, 2016

C est une premiere pour moi une presentation en anglais devant la classe ouf ....

somegirlx
March 10, 2017

I read this as best as I could.. It was very long and you can see where I hesitate at certain parts that I didn't understand. It seems that you you have written about her early life twice. I read it as written except for changing minor things. Good luck with your presentation.

google translate: J'ai lu cela du mieux que j'ai pu. C'était très long et vous pouvez voir où j'hésite à certaines parties que je n'ai pas compris. Il semble que vous avez écrit deux fois sur son jeune âge. Je l'ai lu comme écrit sauf pour changer des choses mineures. Bonne chance avec votre présentation.