Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#127
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Drew Barrymore represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 46 years in, and Drew is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Drew Barrymore appears in 47 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Drew. Influenced is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jonah Hill, Ron Howard, Parker Finn and others, Drew Barrymore helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Influenced (2026) as Self · E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) as Gertie · Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) as Self (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #127 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
47
1980–2026
Career length
46 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Influenced
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Influenced
Most frequent director
Frank Coraci
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Frank Coraci
Most common genre
Comedy
26 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1980s
7.3 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Cat's Eye, Firestarter, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.3
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Cat's Eye, Firestarter, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Most productive era
2000s
19 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.44 films | 6.88 films | 6.73 films | 5.41 film |
| Action | — | 5.71 film | 6.03 films | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 5.41 film | 6.71 film | — | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.66 films | 6.213 films | 6.83 films | 6.74 films |
| Sci-Fi | 8.91 film | — | — | — | — |
| Crime | — | 6.72 films | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.65 films | 6.37 films | 6.63 films | — |
| Horror | 6.63 films | 7.61 film | — | — | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1980Altered States
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Margaret Jessup.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Influenced
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Outcome
The current state of the argument, as Drew Barrymore.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
47 of 47 films
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Gertie
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Danielle de Barbarac
Directed by Andy Tennant
as Jess
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
as Gertie
Directed by Steven Spielberg
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 59 titles · 71 total credits · active 1980–2026
Influenced
2026 · Self
Outcome
2026 · Drew Barrymore
Hollywood Squares
2025 · TV · Self · Executive Producer
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Smile 2
2024 · Drew Barrymore
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023 · TV · Self
Princess Power
2023 · TV · Executive Producer
Scream
2022 · Principal (voice) (uncredited)
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
2021 · Self - Actor, Producer
A Castle for Christmas
2021 · Self
Madame X Presents: Madame Xtra Q&A
2021 · Self
The D'Amelio Show
2021 · TV · Self
The Stand In
2020 · Paula / Candy · Executive Producer
Charlie's Angels
2019 · Executive Producer
Santa Clarita Diet
2017 · TV · Sheila Hammond · Executive Producer
How to Be Single
2016 · Executive Producer
Miss You Already
2015 · Jess
Blended
2014 · Lauren
Animal
2014 · Executive Producer
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV · Self - Guest
Big Miracle
2012 · Rachel Kramer
Going the Distance
2010 · Erin Rankin Langford
Whip It
2009 · Smashley Simpson · Director · Producer
He's Just Not That Into You
2009 · Mary Harris · Executive Producer
The defining work
#1
Self
Influenced (2026)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Drew Barrymore a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gertie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Performance score9.0
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gertie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Danielle de Barbarac
EverAfter (1998)
Performance score8.1
EverAfter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Danielle de Barbarac is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jess
Miss You Already (2015)
Performance score8.0
Miss You Already asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jess is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self
Start here. Influenced is the clearest statement of what Drew Barrymore does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Drew at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The turn in the path: a film the public underrates and we do not. By this point you will know why.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Same director as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
EverAfter (1998)
A deliberate change of key after E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Miss You Already (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of EverAfter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Steven Spielberg
Director
2 films together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
McG
Director
2 films together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Raja Gosnell
Director
2 films together
Notably Never Been Kissed
Ken Kwapis
Director
2 films together
Notably Big Miracle
Frank Coraci
Director
2 films together
Notably Blended
Ken Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Altered States
Mark L. Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably Firestarter
Lewis Teague
Director
1 film together
Notably Cat's Eye
Katt Shea
Director
1 film together
Notably Poison Ivy
Stephen Surjik
Director
1 film together
Notably Wayne's World 2
Jonathan Kaplan
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Girls
Herbert Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Boys on the Side
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Forever
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Everyone Says I Love You
Wes Craven
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably EverAfter
Gary Goldman
Director
1 film together
Notably Titan A.E.
Tom Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Freddy Got Fingered
Penny Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Riding in Cars with Boys
Richard Kelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Donnie Darko
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Danny DeVito
Director
1 film together
Notably Duplex
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably 50 First Dates
Pete Michels
Director
1 film together
Notably Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Fever Pitch
Matthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George
Curtis Hanson
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucky You
Marc Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably Music and Lyrics
Michael Sucsy
Director
1 film together
Notably Grey Gardens
Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Everybody's Fine
Drew Barrymore
Director
1 film together
Notably Whip It
Nanette Burstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Going the Distance
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss You Already
Jamie Babbit
Director
1 film together
Notably The Stand In
Mary Lambert
Director
1 film together
Notably A Castle for Christmas
Michael Bonfiglio
Director
1 film together
Notably Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream
Parker Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Smile 2
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Jim Henson Idea Man
Jonah Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Outcome
Henry Thomas
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Robert MacNaughton
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Peter Coyote
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Dee Wallace
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Erika Eleniak
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
K.C. Martel
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
C. Thomas Howell
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Sean Frye
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
David M. O'Dell
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Richard Swingler
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Frank Toth
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Robert Barton
Actor
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Steven Spielberg
Director
2 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialFrank Coraci
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BlendedKen Kwapis
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Big MiracleRaja Gosnell
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Never Been KissedMcG
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jim Henson Idea ManRichard Kelly
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Donnie DarkoWes Craven
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScreamAndy Tennant
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EverAfterCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss You AlreadyPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
50 First DatesMichael Bonfiglio
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?Pete Michels
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stewie Griffin: The Untold StoryKirk Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everybody's FineMichael Sucsy
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grey GardensPenny Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Riding in Cars with BoysMatt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScreamDrew Barrymore
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whip ItGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Confessions of a Dangerous MindLewis Teague
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cat's EyeKen Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Altered StatesParker Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smile 2Gary Goldman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Titan A.E.Marc Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Music and LyricsMatthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious GeorgeWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everyone Says I Love YouHerbert Ross
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boys on the SideMark L. Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FirestarterBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fever PitchStephen Surjik
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wayne's World 2Nanette Burstein
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going the DistanceDanny DeVito
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DuplexMary Lambert
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Castle for ChristmasJonathan Kaplan
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad GirlsCurtis Hanson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucky YouJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman ForeverJonah Hill
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OutcomeKatt Shea
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Poison IvyJamie Babbit
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Stand InTom Green
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Freddy Got FingeredSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Influenced
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
EverAfter
as Danielle de Barbarac
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Influenced
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Influenced
as Self
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Drew Barrymore has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #452 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.9 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Family, Sci-Fi, Adventure | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Steven Spielberg | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Screen presence, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1982–1982 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Gertie — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Sci-Fi Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
46 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
26 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Influenced
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Influenced
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Big Miracle
as Rachel Kramer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Donnie Darko
as Karen Pomeroy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Influenced
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Titan A.E.
as Akima (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Penny
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
as Gertie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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