Blythe Danner

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1943-02-03

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Blythe Danner

Biography

Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.

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Acting History

2026
Focker-In-Law as Dina Byrnes
2023
Happiness for Beginners as Gigi
2019
Strange But True as Gail
2019
The Tomorrow Man as Ronnie
2019
The Chaperone as Mary O'Dell
2018
What They Had as Ruth
2018
The Mayo Clinic as (voice)
2018
Hearts Beat Loud as Marianne Fisher
2018
Patrick Melrose as Nancy Valance
2017
Halfway There as Jeanne Ross
2017
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport as Narrator
2017
Will & Grace as Marilyn Truman
2017
American Gods as Demeter / Caroline Wells
2017
American Gods as Demeter
2017
The Great War as Self (voice)
2016
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future as Aline Saarinen (voice)
2016
Tumbledown as Ellen Jespersen
2016
Madoff as Ruth Madoff
2015
I'll See You in My Dreams as Carol Petersen
2015
The Slap as Virginia
2014
Murder of a Cat as Edie Moisey
2013
Gilded Lilys as Caroline Lily
2012
Hello I Must Be Going as Ruth
2012
The Lucky One as Nana
2011
Prohibition as Reader (voice)
2011
What's Your Number? as Ava Darling
2011
Up All Night as Angie Chafin
2011
Detachment as Ms. Perkins
2011
Paul as Tara Walton
2010
Little Fockers as Dina Byrnes
2010
Waiting for Forever as Miranda Twist
2009
The Lightkeepers as Mrs. Bascom
2009
Beyond All Boundaries as Elsa Maxwell
2008
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 as Greta
2008
Side by Each
2006
The Last Kiss as Anna
2005
Medium as Louise Leaming
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004
Meet the Fockers as Dina Byrnes
2004
Back When We Were Grownups as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
2004
Huff as Isabelle Huffstodt
2003
Sylvia as Aurelia Plath
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003
Working Shakespeare
2002
Presidio Med as Dr. Harriet Lanning
2002
We Were the Mulvaneys as Corinne Mulvaney
2002
Mark Twain as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
2002
Mark Twain as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
2001
Good Day Live as Self
2001
The Invisible Circus as Gail
2000
Meet the Parents as Dina Byrnes
1999
Things I Forgot to Remember as Mrs. Bradford
1999
The Love Letter as Lillian
1999
Forces of Nature as Virginia
1998
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
1998
Saint Maybe as Bee Bedloe
1998
Will & Grace as Marilyn Truman
1998
The X-Files as Cassidy
1998
From the Earth to the Moon as narrator
1998
No Looking Back as Claudia's Mom
1998
The Proposition as Syril Danning
1998
Eye of the Storm as Irma
1997
Mad City as Mrs. Banks
1997
The Myth of Fingerprints as Lena
1997
A Call to Remember as Paula Tobias
1997
Thomas Jefferson as Martha Jefferson
1995
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Beatrice
1995
Napoleon as Mother Dingo (voice)
1995
Homage as Katherine Samuel
1994
Leave of Absence as Elisa
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Bianca Honicut
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Bianca Honicut
1993
Intimate Portrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
1993
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York as Eleanor Levine
1992
Lincoln as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
1992
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings as The Daughter
1992
Husbands and Wives as Rain's mother
1992
Getting Up and Going Home as Lily Montgomery
1992
Cruel Doubt as Bonnie Von Stein
1991
The Prince of Tides as Sally Wingo
1991
Never Forget as Jane Mermelstein
1990
Alice as Dorothy
1990
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge as Grace Barron
1990
Judgment as Emmeline Guitry
1989
Money, Power, Murder. as Jeannie
1989
Tales from the Crypt as Margaret
1988
Tattingers
1988
Another Woman as Lydia
1987
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
1986
Brighton Beach Memoirs as Kate
1985
Guilty Conscience as Louise Jamison
1984
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues as Anne Sullivan
1983
In Defense of Kids as Ellen Wilcox
1983
Man, Woman and Child as Sheila Beckwith
1982
St. Elsewhere as Paige Gerradeaux
1982
Inside the Third Reich as Margarete Speer
1979
The Great Santini as Lillian Meechum
1979
You Can't Take it With You as Alice Sycamore
1979
Too Far to Go as Joan Barlow Maple
1978
Are You in the House Alone? as Anne Osborne
1978
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story as Eleanor Gehrig
1977
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as Elizabeth Custer
1976
Futureworld as Tracy Ballard
1976
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale as Alma Winemiller
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975
Hearts of the West as Miss Trout
1975
The Seagull as Nina
1974
Lovin' Molly as Molly Taylor
1974
Sidekicks as Prudy Jenkins
1974
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as Zelda Fitzgerald
1973
Adam's Rib as Amanda Bonner
1972
1776 as Martha Jefferson
1972
M*A*S*H as Carlye
1972
To Kill a Clown as Lily Frischer
1972
To Be Young, Gifted and Black as Self and other assorted characters
1972
Scarecrow as Rachel Merton
1971
Columbo as Janice Benedict
1971
Great Performances as Nina
1971
Great Performances as Alma Winemiller
1971
Great Performances as Self
1971
Great Performances as Narrator
1971
Dr. Cook's Garden as Janey Rausch
1970
George M! as Agnes Nolan
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1952
Today as Self
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Elizabeth Custer
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Bee Bedloe
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
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Pretty/Handsome as Bunny
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Small Potatoes as Mimi