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 ForActing

BornFebruary 3, 1943 (83)

Place of BirthPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movie

Focker-in-Law

2026

Dina Byrnes

Movie

Wildwood

2026

The Seer (voice)

Movie

Happiness for Beginners

2023

Gigi

Movie

Strange but True

2019

Gail

Movie

The Tomorrow Man

2019

Ronnie

Movie

The Chaperone

2019

Mary O'Dell

Movie

What They Had

2018

Ruth

Movie

The Mayo Clinic

2018

(voice)

Movie

Hearts Beat Loud

2018

Marianne Fisher

Patrick Melrose

2018

Nancy Valance

Movie

Halfway There

2017

Jeanne Ross

Movie

Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport

2017

Narrator

Will & Grace

2017

Marilyn Truman

American Gods

2017

Demeter / Caroline Wells

The Great War

2017

Self (voice)

Movie

Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future

2016

Aline Saarinen (voice)

Movie

Tumbledown

2016

Ellen Jespersen

Madoff

2016

Ruth Madoff

Movie

I'll See You in My Dreams

2015

Carol Petersen

The Slap

2015

Virginia

Movie

Murder of a Cat

2014

Edie Moisey

Movie

Gilded Lilys

2013

Caroline Lily

Movie

Hello I Must Be Going

2012

Ruth

Movie

The Lucky One

2012

Nana

Prohibition

2011

Reader (voice)

Movie

What's Your Number?

2011

Ava Darling

Up All Night

2011

Angie Chafin

Movie

Detachment

2011

Ms. Perkins

Movie

Paul

2011

Tara Walton

Movie

Little Fockers

2010

Dina Byrnes

Movie

Waiting for Forever

2010

Miranda Twist

Movie

The Lightkeepers

2009

Mrs. Bascom

Movie

Beyond All Boundaries

2009

Elsa Maxwell

Nurse Jackie

2009

Maureen Cooper

Movie

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

2008

Greta

Movie

Side by Each

2008

Daisy/Delores/Delilah

Movie

Pretty/Handsome

2008

Bunny Fitzpayne

Movie

The Last Kiss

2006

Anna

Medium

2005

Louise Leaming

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005

Self

Movie

Meet the Fockers

2004

Dina Byrnes

Movie

Back When We Were Grownups

2004

Rebecca Holmes Davitch

Huff

2004

Isabelle Huffstodt

Movie

Sylvia

2003

Aurelia Plath

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003

Self

Working Shakespeare

2003

Presidio Med

2002

Harriet Lanning

Movie

We Were the Mulvaneys

2002

Corinne Mulvaney

Movie

Mark Twain

2002

Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)

Mark Twain

2002

Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)

Good Day Live

2001

Self

Movie

The Invisible Circus

2001

Gail

Movie

Meet the Parents

2000

Dina Byrnes

Movie

Things I Forgot to Remember

1999

Mrs. Bradford

Movie

The Love Letter

1999

Lillian

Movie

Forces of Nature

1999

Virginia

Movie

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

1998

Mrs. Murphy (voice)

Movie

Saint Maybe

1998

Bee Bedloe

Will & Grace

1998

Marilyn Truman

Movie

The X-Files

1998

Cassidy

From the Earth to the Moon

1998

Narrator (voice)

Movie

No Looking Back

1998

Claudia's Mom

Movie

The Proposition

1998

Syril Danning

Movie

Eye of the Storm

1998

Irma

Movie

Mad City

1997

Mrs. Banks

Movie

The Myth of Fingerprints

1997

Lena

Movie

A Call to Remember

1997

Paula Tobias

Thomas Jefferson

1997

Martha Jefferson (voice)

Movie

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995

Beatrice

Movie

Homage

1995

Katherine Samuel

Movie

Leave of Absence

1994

Elisa

Movie

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994

Bianca Honicut

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994

Bianca Honicut

Intimate Portrait

1993

Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie

Tracey Ullman Takes on New York

1993

Eleanor Levine

Movie

Lincoln

1992

Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)

Movie

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

1992

The Daughter

Movie

Husbands and Wives

1992

Rain's mother

Movie

Getting Up and Going Home

1992

Lily Montgomery

Cruel Doubt

1992

Bonnie Von Stein

Movie

The Prince of Tides

1991

Sally Wingo

Movie

Never Forget

1991

Jane Mermelstein

Movie

Alice

1990

Dorothy

Movie

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

1990

Grace Barron

Movie

Judgment

1990

Emmeline Guitry

Movie

Money, Power, Murder.

1989

Jeannie

Tales from the Crypt

1989

Margaret

Tattingers

1988

Movie

Another Woman

1988

Lydia

Movie

Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

1987

Voice of Elizabeth Bishop

Movie

Brighton Beach Memoirs

1986

Kate

Movie

Guilty Conscience

1985

Louise Jamison

Movie

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

1984

Anne Sullivan

Movie

In Defense of Kids

1983

Ellen Wilcox

Movie

Man, Woman and Child

1983

Sheila Beckwith

St. Elsewhere

1982

Paige Gerradeaux

Inside the Third Reich

1982

Margarete Speer

Movie

The Great Santini

1979

Lillian Meechum

Movie

You Can't Take it With You

1979

Alice Sycamore

Movie

Too Far to Go

1979

Joan Barlow Maple

Movie

Are You in the House Alone?

1978

Anne Osborne

Movie

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978

Eleanor Gehrig

Movie

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

1977

Elizabeth Custer

Movie

Futureworld

1976

Tracy Ballard

Movie

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976

Alma Winemiller

Saturday Night Live

1975

Self - Host

Movie

Hearts of the West

1975

Miss Trout

Movie

The Seagull

1975

Nina

Movie

Lovin' Molly

1974

Molly Taylor

Movie

Sidekicks

1974

Prudy Jenkins

Movie

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

1974

Zelda Fitzgerald

Adam's Rib

1973

Amanda Bonner

Movie

1776

1972

Martha Jefferson

MAS*H

1972

Carlye

Movie

To Kill a Clown

1972

Lily Frischer

Movie

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

1972

Self and other assorted characters

Movie

Scarecrow

1972

Rachel Merton

Columbo

1971

Janice Benedict

Great Performances

1971

Nina

Movie

Dr. Cook's Garden

1971

Janey Rausch

Movie

George M!

1970

Agnes Nolan

Tony Awards

1956

Self - Winner

Today

1952

Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Elizabeth Custer

Golden Globe Awards

1944

Self - Nominee

Movie

Small Potatoes

Mimi

Movie

RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

Self

Pretty/Handsome

Bunny