'''Drew Blyth Barrymore''' (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer through her production company Flower Films.
Family
Her paternal great-great grandparents were John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew. Her paternal grandparents were John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, whose father Maurice Costello was an actor. 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 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.
thumb|left|200px|Drew Barrymore in ''
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982).
Her career began at the age 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''.
Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read ''"Cover yourself up."'' Enclosed was a copy of her ''Playboy'' appearance, with the pictures altered by his art department so that she appeared fully clothed.
At that time she had also appeared nude in her last five movies. During a 1995 appearance on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'', Barrymore shocked the normally unflappable host by climbing onto his desk and flashing him (but with her back
