

Acting
Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly's company in New York. They both acted with some of the great stage personalities of the mid Victorian theater of America and England. The Barrymore children were born and grew up in Philadelphia....
Highest rated appearances

The Red Danube
as Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia')

Pinky
as Miss Em

That Midnight Kiss
as Abigail Trent Budell

The Great Sinner
as Grandmother Ostrovsky

Portrait of Jennie
as Miss Spinney

Moonrise
as Grandma

Night Song
as Miss Willey

The Paradine Case
as Lady Sophie Horfield

Moss Rose
as Lady Margaret Drego

The Farmer's Daughter
as Agatha Morley

The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Warren

None But the Lonely Heart
as Ma Mott

Show-Business at War
as Self

The Divorcee
as Lady Frederick Berolles

Our Mrs. McChesney
as Emma McChesney

An American Widow
as Elizabeth Carter

National Red Cross Pageant
as Flanders / Belgium - Flemish & Final episodes

The Eternal Mother
as Maris

Life's Whirlpool
as Esther Carey

The Lifted Veil
as Clorinda Gildersleeve

The Greatest Power
as Miriam Monroe

The Call of Her People
as Egypt

The White Raven
as Nan Baldwin

The Awakening of Helena Ritchie
as Helena Richie

The Kiss of Hate
as Nadia Turgeneff

The Final Judgment
as Jane Carleson - Mrs. Murray Campbell

The Nightingale
as Isola Franti - 'The Nightingale'