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Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an
American actress and film producer. She has her
own production company, Flower Films.
Drew Barrymore was born into the acting
profession, coming from a long line of acting
talent stretching back nearly 200 years; her
great-great grandparents John Drew, Louisa Lane
Drew, her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore,
Georgiana Drew and Maurice Costello, and her
grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello
were all highly successful actors. She is the
great-niece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore,
and Helene Costello, and the great grandniece of
John Drew, Jr., actress Louisa Drew, and silent
film actor/writer/director Sidney Drew. Her
father John Drew Barrymore was an actor. Her
half-brother John Blyth Barrymore is an actor.
Her mother, the Hungarian-American Jaid
Barrymore, has also acted.
Her career began at the age of 11 months when
she auditioned for a dog food commercial. When
she was bitten by her canine co-star, the
producers feared she'd cry, but she merely
laughed, and was hired for the job.
She shot to fame when she co-starred in the 1982
Steven Spielberg film E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 7, on November
20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest-ever
guest host of Saturday Night Live. She performed
in a skit where she revealed that she killed E.T.
She also received a Golden Globe nomination for
Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for her role in
Irreconcilable Differences.
In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured
a notoriously troubled childhood, drinking
alcohol by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana
at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore
later described this period of her life in her
1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.
Though overcoming her substance abuse problems
by the time she entered adulthood, she
maintained her "bad girl" image, and
leveraged her new-found role as a sex symbol to
stage a career comeback playing a teenage
seductress in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for
the January 1995 issue of Playboy.
Her first name Drew was the maiden name of her
paternal great-grandmother, Georgiana Drew; her
middle name Blyth was the original surname of
the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather,
Maurice Barrymore.
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