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