[3][4] She was known for her riding skills,[5] and preference for "heavy dramatic" roles.

She appeared with Gloria Swanson in The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915).

Other films with Drew include Blind Man's Bluff [it] (1914),[2] The Clutch of Circumstance [it] (1915), In the Palace of the King [it] (1915), A Million for a Baby [it](1916),[3] Money to Burn [it] (1916),[6] The Secret of the Night(1916), The Other Man (1916),[7] My Country, 'Tis of Thee [it] (1916)[8] The Woman Always Pays [it](1916),[9] Vultures of Society [it] (1916), Uneasy Money (1918), and Ruggles of Red Gap (1918).

[10] Lillian Drew married fellow actor and director E. H. Calvert in 1907.

The Calverts were separated, and she was recovering from an injury, when she died in Chicago in 1924, from an overdose of barbital, aged 41 years.