Facts
- She was, at seven years old, the youngest person ever to host “Saturday Night Live”. She was the guest host when viewers voted that Andy Kaufman would never be allowed to return to the show.
- Drew never finished high school.
- Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her birthday with a note “Cover yourself up”. Enclosed was a copy of the January 1995 issue of Playboy Magazine for which she posed nude, with the pictures altered by Spielberg’s art department so that she appeared fully clothed.
- Her favorite poet is e.e. cummings.
- She was formerly a vegan: “I don’t eat a ton of meat, and I don’t wear a ton of leather, but I just don’t put strict limitations on myself anymore”.
- On February 3, 2004, Drew received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, joining her famous relatives Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore as recipients of that honor.
- Godmother of the late Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter, Frances Bean.
- One of her hobbies is photography.
- Became a Boston Red Sox fan during the filming of the movie “Fever Pitch”.
- Best friends with Cameron Diaz since the filming of “Charlie’s Angels” in 1999. Both Cameron and Drew are huge fans of the rock group Ratt.
- When Drew found out that a 23-year-old girl wanted to be on MTV’s “I Want a Famous Face” and have cosmetic surgery to look like her, she contacted the girl and successfully convinced her to not have the surgery.
- Is a huge fan of The Beach Boys and appeared in their music video, “Rock and Roll To The Rescue” as well as singing “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” in the film “50 First Dates”. Other favorite musicians include The Beatles, Daft Punk, Lauryn Hill, Coldplay, The Strokes, Ratt and Beck.
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