Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 3, 1943
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Focker-In-Law | Dina Byrnes |
| 2023 | Happiness for Beginners | Gigi |
| 2019 | Strange But True | Gail |
| 2019 | The Chaperone | Mary O'Dell |
| 2019 | The Tomorrow Man | Ronnie |
| 2018 | What They Had | Ruth |
| 2018 | Hearts Beat Loud | Marianne Fisher |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | (voice) |
| 2017 | Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport | Narrator |
| 2017 | Halfway There | Jeanne Ross |
| 2017 | The Great War | Self (voice) |
| 2016 | Tumbledown | Ellen Jespersen |
| 2016 | Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future | Aline Saarinen (voice) |
| 2015 | I'll See You in My Dreams | Carol Petersen |
| 2014 | Murder of a Cat | Edie Moisey |
| 2013 | Gilded Lilys | Caroline Lily |
| 2012 | Hello I Must Be Going | Ruth |
| 2012 | The Lucky One | Nana |
| 2011 | What's Your Number? | Ava Darling |
| 2011 | Paul | Tara Walton |
| 2011 | Detachment | Ms. Perkins |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | Dina Byrnes |
| 2010 | Waiting for Forever | Miranda Twist |
| 2009 | The Lightkeepers | Mrs. Bascom |
| 2009 | Beyond All Boundaries | Elsa Maxwell |
| 2008 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | Greta |
| 2008 | Side by Each | |
| 2006 | The Last Kiss | Anna |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | Dina Byrnes |
| 2004 | Back When We Were Grownups | Rebecca Holmes Davitch |
| 2003 | Sylvia | Aurelia Plath |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice) |
| 2002 | We Were the Mulvaneys | Corinne Mulvaney |
| 2001 | The Invisible Circus | Gail |
| 2000 | Meet the Parents | Dina Byrnes |
| 1999 | Forces of Nature | Virginia |
| 1999 | The Love Letter | Lillian |
| 1999 | Things I Forgot to Remember | Mrs. Bradford |
| 1998 | The X-Files | Cassidy |
| 1998 | Saint Maybe | Bee Bedloe |
| 1998 | No Looking Back | Claudia's Mom |
| 1998 | The Proposition | Syril Danning |
| 1998 | Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery | Mrs. Murphy (voice) |
| 1998 | Eye of the Storm | Irma |
| 1997 | Mad City | Mrs. Banks |
| 1997 | The Myth of Fingerprints | Lena |
| 1997 | A Call to Remember | Paula Tobias |
| 1995 | Homage | Katherine Samuel |
| 1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Beatrice |
| 1995 | Napoleon | Mother Dingo (voice) |
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Bianca Honicut |
| 1994 | Leave of Absence | Elisa |
| 1993 | Tracey Ullman Takes on New York | Eleanor Levine |
| 1992 | Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings | The Daughter |
| 1992 | Getting Up and Going Home | Lily Montgomery |
| 1992 | Husbands and Wives | Rain's mother |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice) |
| 1991 | The Prince of Tides | Sally Wingo |
| 1991 | Never Forget | Jane Mermelstein |
| 1990 | Alice | Dorothy |
| 1990 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Grace Barron |
| 1990 | Judgment | Emmeline Guitry |
| 1989 | Money, Power, Murder. | Jeannie |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Lydia |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Bishop: One Art | Voice of Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1986 | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Kate |
| 1985 | Guilty Conscience | Louise Jamison |
| 1984 | Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues | Anne Sullivan |
| 1983 | Man, Woman and Child | Sheila Beckwith |
| 1983 | In Defense of Kids | Ellen Wilcox |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Margarete Speer |
| 1979 | The Great Santini | Lillian Meechum |
| 1979 | Too Far to Go | Joan Barlow Maple |
| 1979 | You Can't Take it With You | Alice Sycamore |
| 1978 | Are You in the House Alone? | Anne Osborne |
| 1978 | A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Eleanor Gehrig |
| 1977 | The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer | Elizabeth Custer |
| 1976 | Futureworld | Tracy Ballard |
| 1976 | The Eccentricities of a Nightingale | Alma Winemiller |
| 1975 | Hearts of the West | Miss Trout |
| 1975 | The Seagull | Nina |
| 1974 | Lovin' Molly | Molly Taylor |
| 1974 | Sidekicks | Prudy Jenkins |
| 1974 | F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles | Zelda Fitzgerald |
| 1972 | To Kill a Clown | Lily Frischer |
| 1972 | 1776 | Martha Jefferson |
| 1972 | Scarecrow | Rachel Merton |
| 1972 | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | Self and other assorted characters |
| 1971 | Dr. Cook's Garden | Janey Rausch |
| 1970 | George M! | Agnes Nolan |
| Small Potatoes | Mimi |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Nancy Valance |
| 2017 | American Gods | Demeter / Caroline Wells |
| 2017 | American Gods | Demeter |
| 2017 | Will & Grace | Marilyn Truman |
| 2016 | Madoff | Ruth Madoff |
| 2015 | The Slap | Virginia |
| 2011 | Up All Night | Angie Chafin |
| 2011 | Prohibition | Reader (voice) |
| 2005 | Medium | Louise Leaming |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2004 | Huff | Isabelle Huffstodt |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Working Shakespeare | |
| 2002 | Presidio Med | Dr. Harriet Lanning |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice) |
| 2001 | Good Day Live | Self |
| 1998 | Will & Grace | Marilyn Truman |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | narrator |
| 1997 | Thomas Jefferson | Martha Jefferson |
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Bianca Honicut |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | Cruel Doubt | Bonnie Von Stein |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt | Margaret |
| 1988 | Tattingers | |
| 1982 | St. Elsewhere | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1973 | Adam's Rib | Amanda Bonner |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H | Carlye |
| 1971 | Columbo | Janice Benedict |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Nina |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Alma Winemiller |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Narrator |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Elizabeth Custer |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Bee Bedloe |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Rebecca Holmes Davitch |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |
| Pretty/Handsome | Bunny |