Drew Barrymore: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me (‘My Proudest Personal Moment Was Having My Daughters’)

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Doing it all! Drew Barrymore made a big impact in Hollywood as the adorable Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s E.T.

the Extra-Terrestrial — and has since expanded her impressive résumé.After her scene-stealing performance in the 1982 sci-fi film, the 47-year-old California native went on to star in the likes of Never Been Kissed, The Wedding Singer, Charlie’s Angels, He’s Just Not That Into You and three seasons of Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet.

In addition to making a big impact onscreen, the Ever After star has shared her life hacks via her own book and eponymous daytime TV show.“I have worked really hard on a lot of things in my life that didn’t manifest, and I know those all ended up being building blocks for something else, so I tried to keep that discipline that I don’t think anything is a waste of time,” Barrymore told Variety in November 2020 ahead of the premiere of her The Drew Barrymore Show. “The harder you work and the more you apply yourself, somewhere, it will pay off.”She continued: “I am lucky that my insane desire was to be the antidote because I think I would have tried to do something different at different intervals of my life.

And it seems like this year, there was a part of me that was very nervous it could be the biggest failure.”The 50 First Dates actress — who was previously married to Jeremy Thomas and Tom Green — is also a doting mother to her two daughters, Olive and Frankie, whom she shares with ex-husband Will Kopelman.“I got two families,” she revealed during a February 2017 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show about how she and Kopelman, 43, coparent their girls. “I went from, like, zero to two and it’s a miracle and a blessing, and we do it in a way that I think a lot of other people are