Drew Barrymore Net Worth

How much is Drew Barrymore worth?

Net Worth:$125 Million
Profession:Professional Actress
Date of Birth:February 22, 1975 (age 47)
Country:United States of America
Height:
5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

About Drew Barrymore

There are few actresses like Drew Barrymore, not only is she beautiful but she has an edginess which is unique to Hollywood. She was always very intelligent, she had read Stephen King‘s Firestarter novel by age 5. At age 6, she appeared as Gertie in Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At age 7, she became the youngest person (and still is) to host Saturday Night Live, which she did in 1982.

Drew is of English, Irish, German and Hungarian descent. Her family, both living and deceased, have been actors and actresses and fame was almost inescapable for the young Drew growing up. Her father, John Drew Barrymore, is considered one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation and her mother, grandparents and even great-grandparents were all actors.

American actress, producer, talk show host and author Drew Barrymore has an estimated net worth of $125 million dollars, as of 2023. Barrymore received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame before the age of 30, in 2004.

Drew had a troubled youth and is known for living somewhat of an alternative lifestyle. She never finished high school, she legally emancipated herself from her parents at age 15, and at age 19, she was posing nude for Playboy magazine. Barrymore was delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss, the former madam who ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles. Her godfather, Steven Spielberg, who interestingly is also Gwyneth Paltrow‘s godfather, gave Drew a quilt for her birthday with the note inside “Cover yourself up”. Folded into the quilt was a copy of the 1995 Playboy magazine issue in which she had posed nude. However, this copy, included pictures that had been altered, making her appear fully clothed.

Fortunately for Barrymore, despite a turbulent youth and no stranger to drugs and alcohol, she managed to straighten herself out. She landed a series of rebel roles in the films Poison Ivy, Guncrazy, and Bad Girls, during the early to mid ’90s. Her fame increased when she appeared in Woody Allen‘s Everyone Says I Love You in 1996. However, it wasn’t until her collaborations with Adam Sandler that she began to reach international stardom.

Through her company, Flower Films, that she had founded in 1995, Barrymore discovered the script of 50 First Dates which had been optioned by Adam Sandler’s company. She had previously seen major success with her first collaboration with Sandler in the 1998 film, The Wedding Singer. With a budget of just $18 million, the filmed had earned $123.3 million at the global box office. 50 First Dates was even bigger, earning $198.5 million globally and putting Drew Barrymore’s name front and center into the mind of every romantic comedy lover.

In 2000, Barrymore and her from-then-on best friend Cameron Diaz appeared together in Charlie’s Angels. A film with a massive budget at the time of $93 million dollars and a major success earning $264.1 million at the box office. While her paycheck for the first movie remains undisclosed, she earned $14 million dollars for Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. For the 2007 film, Music and Lyrics Barrymore earned $15 million dollars.

Then there was the 2009 film Whip It, a Flower Films production and Barrymore’s directorial debut. While the movie did not perform very well at the box office, barely covering its costs, it was well received by critics. American film critic Roger Ebert described it as having “guts, charm, and a black-and-blue sweetness,” and TIME magazine hailed Barrymore as “a sensitive director who knows how and when to let an emotional moment linger on the screen.”

Barrymore’s Total Net Worth

In more recent years Drew Barrymore has become far more of a producer, than an actress. She has been appearing in fewer movie roles since the 2010s, and has been deeply involved with producing television series. As a producer, Barrymore can wear the captains hat and she can also likely earn more money with less stress and strain that is involved with preparing for a movie role.

In her acting career, it seems that her paycheck per movie likely peaked at around $15 million dollars which was what she was paid for Music and Lyrics in 2007. However she also collaborated once more with Adam Sandler in Blended, and it has long been suspected that for this movie and others, Barrymore earned a backend percentage; likely making her total payment in the region of $25 million dollars or more.

In total, Drew Barrymore has earned estimated total career income of around $200 million dollars.

Of that amount, around $14-23 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $181.5 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 49% as Drew Barrymore has been residing in the state of California and earned substantial sums in the 2000s and early 2010s when taxes were lower. She also resided for a time in Manhattan, New York City and bought and sold properties in the Hamptons. In which case, she may have even paid a percentage or two lower. It is unclear exactly where she will have paid tax when she was living a bicoastal lifestyle. However, after tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $92.56 million dollars, having paid $88.94 million dollars in taxes.

The first of Barrymore’s two impulsive marriages was to Welsh-born Jeremy Thomas, who was a Los Angeles barkeep. After just six weeks of meeting one another they were married. Apparently, the decision was made on the very same night that they wed. The marriage took place at “The Room”, the bar where Thomas worked on Cahuenga Boulevard, shortly after 5:00 a.m, on March 20, 1994. Supposedly, the minister had taken time off from his psychic hotline where he worked as a clairvoyant. The marriage was over in 1995.

Barrymore began a relationship with Tom Green in February 2000 and they became engaged five months later, in July. One year later, on July 7, 2001, they were married but separated just five months after in December 2001. By the time their divorce was finalized, in October 2002, Barrymore had already begun a relationship with The Strokes drummer, Fabrizio Moretti that same year of June. They were in a relationship for a little over four years, until December 2006.

She then began a relationship with actor, Justin Long. At first it lasted from August 2007 until July 2008, and then in June 2009, they reunited after a trip to Disneyland. They moved in together in August 2009 but later broke up in November 2009.

Barrymore married for a third time in 2012 when, after being together for 16 months, and after a 5-month-long engagement, she tied the knot with Will Kopelman. Their wedding planner was Yifat Oren and in attendance were Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon, Naomi Pomeroy and Busy Philipps. As well as her best friend Cameron Diaz, serving as maid of honor. Barrymore gave birth to her first child, Olive Barrymore Kopelman, that same year of 2012, and Frankie Barrymore Kopelman was born two years later in 2014.

Unfortunately, despite the big affair and the children, their marriage did not work out. The couple were reported to have separated in April 2016 and that Barrymore had filed for divorce from him on July 15. As Barrymore and Kopelman had entered into a prenuptial agreement before they were married, and the first marriages brokedown in a matter of months, it is considered that Barrymore has not needed to pay spousal support. Even despite her net worth being so much higher than that of her partners’.

In her investments, Barrymore has bought and sold properties in Los Angeles, and also reportedly bought a 5,600-square-foot home in The Hamptons in 2019, for $5.5 million. She had also sold a property in the Hollywood Hills for $16.5 million dollars a year prior, in 2018. While Barrymore will have earned some money from property appreciation on her property sales, it is likely that she has invested more of her money into stocks and bonds and other securities. After all, her godfather is Steven Spielberg. She will have been given more advice along the way other than to keep her clothes on instead of off.

In her personal life, Drew has likely spent $7-15 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $2-4 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $34-45 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Drew Barrymore has a net worth of around $125 million dollars.

Summing-Up

Drew Barrymore grew up fast. She was smoking and drinking before she was a teenager and was already sent to rehab for alcohol and drug addiction, at the age of 13. At age 14, she completed her autobiographic book titled Little Girl Lost. However, Barrymore managed to emerge as one of the most endearing and talented actresses of her generation, despite appearing in Playboy magazine nude at just 19 years old. Today, her bad girl personality and being named “Stonette of the Year” by High Times magazine, all play in to her image. An image that has been incredibly successful at recruiting moviegoers to both the films that she appears in, and the films that she has produced.

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