Blythe Danner
Known for Acting ยท 129 credits
- Born
- 1943-02-03 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Blythe Katherine 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
TV Shows (37)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
Columbo
1971
as Janice Benedict
Great Performances
1971
as Nina / Alma Winemiller / Self / Narrator
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
M*A*S*H
1972
as Carlye
Medium
2005
as Louise Leaming
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner / Self - Nominee
Will & Grace
1998
as Marilyn Truman
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Paige Gerradeaux
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Margaret
American Gods
2017
as Demeter / Caroline Wells
Nurse Jackie
2009
as Maureen Cooper
Will & Grace
2017
as Marilyn Truman
Up All Night
2011
as Angie Chafin
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Narrator (voice)
Huff
2004
as Isabelle Huffstodt
The Slap
2015
as Virginia
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Nancy Valance
Presidio Med
2002
as Dr. Harriet Lanning
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Elizabeth Custer / Bee Bedloe / Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Adam's Rib
1973
as Amanda Bonner
Working Shakespeare
2003
Madoff
2016
as Ruth Madoff
Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)
Tattingers
1988
Pretty/Handsome
as Bunny
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Margarete Speer
Cruel Doubt
1992
as Bonnie Von Stein
Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
Thomas Jefferson
1997
as Martha Jefferson (voice)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut
The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)
Movies (92)
The Lucky One
2012
as Nana
Paul
2011
as Tara Walton
Meet the Fockers
2004
as Dina Byrnes
Meet the Parents
2000
as Dina Byrnes
Wildwood
2026
as (voice)
The X-Files
1998
as Cassidy
Focker-In-Law
2026
as Dina Byrnes
Detachment
2011
as Ms. Perkins
The Prince of Tides
1991
as Sally Wingo
What's Your Number?
2011
as Ava Darling
Forces of Nature
1999
as Virginia
Napoleon
1995
as Mother Dingo (voice)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
as Beatrice
Strange but True
2019
as Gail
Little Fockers
2010
as Dina Byrnes
Futureworld
1976
as Tracy Ballard
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008
as Greta
1776
1972
as Martha Jefferson
Happiness for Beginners
2023
as Gigi
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Anne Sullivan
Another Woman
1988
as Lydia
The Love Letter
1999
as Lillian
The Last Kiss
2006
as Anna
Halfway There
2017
as Jeanne Ross
Mad City
1997
as Mrs. Banks
Hello I Must Be Going
2012
as Ruth
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
as Grace Barron
Alice
1990
as Dorothy
Hearts Beat Loud
2018
as Marianne Fisher
Hearts of the West
1975
as Miss Trout
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
as Kate
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Elsa Maxwell
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Lena
The Proposition
1998
as Syril Danning
Sylvia
2003
as Aurelia Plath
I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
as Carol Petersen
Husbands and Wives
1992
as Rain's mother
Man, Woman and Child
1983
as Sheila Beckwith
What They Had
2018
as Ruth
The Invisible Circus
2001
as Gail
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Mrs. Bascom
The Great Santini
1979
as Lillian Meechum
Things I Forgot to Remember
1999
as Mrs. Bradford
Murder of a Cat
2014
as Edie Moisey
Waiting for Forever
2010
as Miranda Twist
We Were the Mulvaneys
2002
as Corinne Mulvaney
Lovin' Molly
1974
as Molly Taylor
Guilty Conscience
1985
as Louise Jamison
The Chaperone
2019
as Mary O'Dell
Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
Tumbledown
2016
as Ellen Jespersen
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
as Self
The Tomorrow Man
2019
as Ronnie
No Looking Back
1998
as Claudia's Mom
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
as The Daughter
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as (voice)
Are You in the House Alone?
1978
as Anne Osborne
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
1987
as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
Back When We Were Grownups
2004
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Eye of the Storm
1998
as Irma
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
1998
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
1993
as Eleanor Levine
Saint Maybe
1998
as Bee Bedloe
Lincoln
1992
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
Too Far to Go
1979
as Joan Barlow Maple
Judgment
1990
as Emmeline Guitry
Sidekicks
1974
as Prudy Jenkins
Leave of Absence
1994
as Elisa
You Can't Take it With You
1979
as Alice Sycamore
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1976
as Alma Winemiller
To Kill a Clown
1972
as Lily Frischer
Never Forget
1991
as Jane Mermelstein
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
as Jeannie
The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)
A Call to Remember
1997
as Paula Tobias
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
1974
as Zelda Fitzgerald
In Defense of Kids
1983
as Ellen Wilcox
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
as Eleanor Gehrig
The Seagull
1975
as Nina
Gilded Lilys
2013
as Caroline Lily
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
as Lily Montgomery
Dr. Cook's Garden
1971
as Janey Rausch
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut
Small Potatoes
as Mimi
Homage
1995
as Katherine Samuel
George M!
1970
as Agnes Nolan
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
as Self and other assorted characters
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
as Elizabeth Custer
Scarecrow
1972
as Rachel Merton
Side by Each
2008
as Daisy/Delores/Delilah
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
2017
as Narrator
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
2016
as Aline Saarinen (voice)
About Blythe Danner
Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. With 129 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Blythe Danner has appeared in 92 films and 37 TV shows.
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Most Popular Blythe Danner Movies
- The Lucky One (2012) โ as Nana
- Paul (2011) โ as Tara Walton
- Meet the Fockers (2004) โ as Dina Byrnes
- Meet the Parents (2000) โ as Dina Byrnes
- Wildwood (2026) โ as (voice)
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