JoBeth Williams in "Just Write" with Jeremy Piven. In 2005, she appeared in the Drew Barrymore-Jimmy Fallon baseball comedy "Fever Pitch". In October 2011, she appeared with Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, and Jack Black in the bird-watching comedy "The Big Year" for Twentieth Century Fox. Williams has also gained critical acclaim for a number of performances in notable television movies, including the nuclear holocaust film "The Day After" (1983), "Murder Ordained" (1987), as Lois Burnham Wilson in "My Name is Bill W." (1989), and the critically acclaimed "Masterpiece Theatre" presentation of "The Ponder Heart" (2003) for director Martha Coolidge. She
Drew Barrymore me as a kid because she was so kind and nurturing." Her godfather is director Steven Spielberg. Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew, and her middle name, Blythe, was the surname of the family first used by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore. Barrymore recounted in her 1991 autobiography, "Little Girl Lost", early memories of her abusive father, who left the family when Barrymore was 6 months old. They never had anything resembling a significant relationship and seldom spoke to each other. Barrymore grew up on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood until the age