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. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.
Filmography
2026
- Focker-In-Law as Dina Byrnes
2023
- Happiness for Beginners as Gigi
2019
- The Chaperone as Mary O'Dell
- Strange But True as Gail
- 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
- Halfway There as Jeanne Ross
- The Great War as Self (voice)
- Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport as Narrator
2016
- Tumbledown as Ellen Jespersen
- Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future as Aline Saarinen (voice)
- Madoff as Ruth Madoff
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
2011
- Paul as Tara Walton
- Detachment as Ms. Perkins
- Up All Night as Angie Chafin
- What's Your Number? as Ava Darling
- Prohibition as Reader (voice)
2010
- Little Fockers as Dina Byrnes
- Waiting for Forever as Miranda Twist
2009
- Beyond All Boundaries as Elsa Maxwell
- The Lightkeepers as Mrs. Bascom
2008
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
- Sylvia as Aurelia Plath
- Working Shakespeare
2002
- Mark Twain as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
- Presidio Med as Dr. Harriet Lanning
- 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
- The Proposition as Syril Danning
- The X-Files as Cassidy
- No Looking Back as Claudia's Mom
- Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
- Eye of the Storm as Irma
- Saint Maybe as Bee Bedloe
1997
- A Call to Remember as Paula Tobias
- The Myth of Fingerprints as Lena
- Thomas Jefferson as Martha Jefferson
- Mad City as Mrs. Banks
1995
- Napoleon as Mother Dingo (voice)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Beatrice
- Homage as Katherine Samuel
1994
- Leave of Absence as Elisa
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Bianca Honicut
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Bianca Honicut
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Tracey Ullman Takes on New York as Eleanor Levine
1992
- Lincoln as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
- Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings as The Daughter
- Husbands and Wives as Rain's mother
- Getting Up and Going Home as Lily Montgomery
- Cruel Doubt as Bonnie Von Stein
1991
- The Prince of Tides as Sally Wingo
- Never Forget as Jane Mermelstein
1990
- Alice as Dorothy
- Judgment as Emmeline Guitry
- Mr. & Mrs. Bridge as Grace Barron
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Margaret
- Money, Power, Murder. as Jeannie
1988
- Another Woman as Lydia
- Tattingers
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
- Man, Woman and Child as Sheila Beckwith
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
- The Seagull as Nina
- Hearts of the West as Miss Trout
1974
- Sidekicks as Prudy Jenkins
- Lovin' Molly as Molly Taylor
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as Zelda Fitzgerald
1973
- Adam's Rib as Amanda Bonner
1972
- M*A*S*H as Carlye
- Scarecrow as Rachel Merton
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black as Self and other assorted characters
- To Kill a Clown as Lily Frischer
- 1776 as Martha Jefferson
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 - Nominee
1952
- Today as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Elizabeth Custer
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee