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.

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.

Drew Blyth Barrymore ( born February 22, 1975 ) is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer, and model.

Barrymore was born in the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandmother.

In 1937, Barrymore visited India, the land where his father had been born.

#* Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore ( born 1930 )

* March 25-Maurice Barrymore, Barrymore family patriarch ( born 1849 )

Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore ( whose real name was Herbert Blythe ) and Georgiana Drew.

* Drew Barrymore ( born 1975 ), American actress

He was born in Barrymore, County Cork and spent much of his adult life in Limerick, receiving the patronage of both Irish and Anglo-Irish landowners.

Her acting career became less a priority for her following the birth of her first child, Dolores Ethel Mae " DeeDee " Barrymore ( born April 8, 1930 ) and she retired from the screen in 1931 to devote time to her family.

* Deborah Barrymore aka Deborah Moore ( born 1963 ), English actress

* Drew Barrymore ( born 1975 ), American actress and producer

* Jaid Barrymore ( born 1946 ), American actress, mother of Drew

* Michael Barrymore ( born 1952 ), English comedian

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* 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 America, the first major radio production was in 1937 on NBC Radio, when John Barrymore adapted the play into a forty-five minute piece, starring Barrymore himself and Elaine Barrie.

Barrymore studied to be an artist and worked on New York newspapers before deciding to go into the family business as an actor.

Barrymore was most likely convinced into giving films a try out of economic necessity and the fact that he hated touring a play all over the United States.

Barrymore collapsed on his boat, The Mariner, in 1929 off the coast of Mexico while on honeymoon with wife Dolores, requiring admittance into doctor's care.

The Fish family left for their new 78th Street home in 1898, and the building was broken up into small apartments ; actor John Barrymore was a resident while he was in New York working on Broadway.

As well as representing those wrongly convicted of the IRA's Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings, Mansfield has represented: the Angry Brigade ; the Price sisters ; Brian Keenan ; the Orgreave miners ; Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty ( in posthumous appeals ); those involved in the Israeli Embassy bombing ; Stephen Lawrence's family ; Michael Barrymore at the Stuart Lubbock inquest ; Barry George at the inquest into the death of Jill Dando ; the gangster Kenneth Noye ; the Bloody Sunday families ; Arthur Scargill ; Angela Cannings ; Fatmir Limaj, a Kosovo-Albanian leader prosecuted in The Hague ; Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales ; and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes.

The two domed ballrooms on that floor ( the South and North Cameo rooms ), were turned into the Ethel Barrymore Tea Room and a restaurant called Founders.

The Barrymore family is an American acting family.

In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and others.

In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and others.

It was only because Barrymore convinced the Langhankes that his acting lessons required privacy that the couple managed to be alone at all.

Although he continued to occasionally play leads – notably when he was a playboy in Billy Wilder's Midnight with Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in 1939 – in the late 1930s Lederer began to expand his film acting repertoire with offbeat character parts, even playing villains.

Following his divorce in 1928, he married Blanche Oelrichs Barrymore, the former wife of John Barrymore who used the name Michael Strange in her acting and writing careers.

Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe ( September 21, 1849 – March 26, 1905 ) — stage name Maurice Barrymore — was a patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore.

Louisa Lane Drew ( January 10, 1820-August 31, 1897 ) was an American actress and theatre owner of British birth, and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family.

Though Forrest's reputation was badly damaged, his heroic style of acting can be seen in the matinee idols of early Hollywood and performers such as John Barrymore.

Barrymore made her film debut in Altered States in 1980.

" Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Barrymore with Corey Feldman at the 61st Academy Awards, March 29, 1989 In her late teens, her rebelliousness played itself out on screen and in print.

During a 1995 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore climbed onto David Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back to the camera, in celebration of his birthday.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

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 ).