Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ).

Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, the daughter of American actor John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore ( Makó ), an aspiring actress.

Barrymore was born into acting: her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice Costello and Mae Costello ( Altschuk ) and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were all actors ; John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Barrymore forged an image as a manipulative teenage seductress, beginning with the film Poison Ivy ( 1992 ), which was a box office failure, but was popular on video and cable.

The second offering from the company was Charlie's Angels ( 2000 ), a major box office success in 2000 that helped solidify the standing of both Barrymore and the company.

When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

She has one half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore, also an actor, and two half-sisters, Blyth Dolores Barrymore and ( Brahma ) Jessica Blyth Barrymore.

Barrymore also co-starred in the film.

Barrymore was also great friends and a drinking cohort with baseball legend Mike Donlin.

Doppelgängers are also a common theme in cinema, most notably in Henry Selick's Coraline, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Doppelganger from 2003, Avi Nesher's 1993 film of the same name starring Drew Barrymore, and The Abandoned, as well as in many TV shows.

Bob Mills is also a writer, having written the Michael Barrymore comedy Bob Martin '.

The Georgia Lorrison character is the daughter of a " Great Profile " actor like John Barrymore ( Diana Barrymore's career was in fact launched the same year as her father's death ), but it can also be argued that Lorrison includes elements of Minnelli's ex-wife Judy Garland.

The ensemble cast also included Seth McFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, and Drew Barrymore.

Anjelica also starred in the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster, Ever After: A Cinderella Story alongside Drew Barrymore and Melanie Lynskey as the Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent.

It also saw use in the trailer for a wide-release 1998 Drew Barrymore film Ever After.

" She also had small parts in the films Enemies of Women ( 1923 ), a William Randolph Hearst production whose cast included Lionel Barrymore and Clara Bow, So This Is Marriage?

He appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and scored one of his greatest successes in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run.

He was also portrayed ( by Lionel Barrymore ) as a villain and fanatic in Tennessee Johnson, the 1942 MGM film about the life of President Andrew Johnson.

At least one source, a servant, alleged that Colt abused her and also that he fathered a child with another woman while married to Barrymore.

Their secret engagement ended largely because of the Langhankes ' interference and Astor's inability to escape their heavy-handed authority, but also because Barrymore became involved with Astor's fellow WAMPAS Baby Star Dolores Costello, whom he later married.

Har Mar's fourth studio album, Dark Touches, was released on October 12, 2009, in the UK and on October 13, 2009, in the U. S. He also appeared in Whip It !, a film by Drew Barrymore.

Mark of the Vampire ( also known as Vampires of Prague ) is a 1935 horror film, starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt and directed by Tod Browning.

Growing up in New York, Walsh was also a friend of the Barrymore family.

She also appeared as a debutante in the MGM musical Lady Be Good ( 1941 ) starring Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young and Lionel Barrymore.

Classical revivals also proved popular with Broadway theatre-goers, notably John Barrymore in Hamlet and Richard III, John Gielgud in Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest and Much Ado About Nothing, Walter Hampden and Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac, Paul Robeson and Ferrer in Othello, Maurice Evans in Richard II and the plays of George Bernard Shaw, and Katharine Cornell in such plays as Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Candida

As such, he was also the uncle of John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore and also great-great uncle to Drew Barrymore.

In 1995, Barrymore starred in Boys on the Side opposite Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker, and had a cameo role in Joel Schumacher's film Batman Forever, in which she portrayed a moll to Tommy Lee Jones ' character, Two-Face.

As a result, she was offered more substantial roles in such films as Too Much, Too Soon, where she portrayed Diana Barrymore, Man of a Thousand Faces ( with James Cagney ), and Warlock ( with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark ).

** In 1936, John Barrymore portrayed Mercutio in George Cukor's film Romeo and Juliet opposite Leslie Howard as Romeo.

The character was portrayed in many silent movie versions of the story and in talking movies, and was played by Paul Wegener in a 1927 German silent film of the same name, by John Barrymore in a a 1931 version, by Donald Wolfit in a 1954 version in Technicolor, and by Peter O ' Toole in a 1983 made-for-television modernized version, also in colour, co-featuring Jodie Foster.

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

In 2010, Barrymore reunited with former partner Justin Long on the set of Going the Distance, directed by Nanette Burstein.

In September 2010, Barrymore was confirmed to play the role of Ganga in the Indian Bollywood film The Lifestyle – In Generation Next to be directed by Santosh Kumar Jain, to be released in 2012.

In the romantic comedy 50 First Dates ( 2004 ), Adam Sandler plays veterinarian Henry Roth, who falls for Lucy Whitmore, played by Drew Barrymore.

The cast is trapped during a spectacular hurricane in a hotel owned by Bacall's character's father in law, played by Lionel Barrymore.

In a 2008 stage play, Surviving Spike, Milligan was played by the entertainer Michael Barrymore.

In the remake, the roles played by Lon Chaney in the original were split between Lionel Barrymore and Béla Lugosi ( spoofing his Dracula image ).

The film was so successful that Harry Warner agreed to sign Barrymore to a generous long-term contract ; like The Marriage Circle, Beau Brummell was named one of the ten best films of the year by The New York Times.

* When a Man Loves ( 1927 ), directed by Alan Crosland, with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello

* Most of the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: Goldie Hawn, who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and Drew Barrymore, who convinced Woody Allen that her singing was too awful even for the " realistic singing voice " concept he was going for.

* In 1937 as Captains Courageous ( film ), produced by Louis D. Lighton, directed by Victor Fleming and starring Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, and John Carradine.

Lombard was at first intimidated by Barrymore, but the two quickly developed a good working rapport.

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell.

Conservative gym teacher Kitty Farmer ( Beth Grant ) blames the flooding on the influence of the short story " The Destructors ", assigned by English teacher Karen Pomeroy ( Drew Barrymore ), and begins teaching attitude lessons taken from motivational speaker Jim Cunningham ( Patrick Swayze ).

The show returned to Broadway, at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, on 17 March 2011, with closing scheduled on 19 June 2011, again directed by David Leveaux.

Test Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and featuring Lionel Barrymore.

The part had been played in the theatre by Ethel Barrymore, but Warner Bros. felt that the film version should depict the character as a younger woman.

Twenty years later, Barrymore finally confessed to his deception, but by then, he was so famous that the world merely smiled indulgently at his admission.

Barrymore specialized in light comedies until convinced by his friend, playwright Edward Sheldon, to try serious drama.