
Blythe Danner
Known for Acting · 127 credits
- Born
- 1943-02-03 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- بلایث دانر
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 (36)

Columbo
1971
as Janice Benedict

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self

Medium
2005
as Louise Leaming

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

M*A*S*H
1972
as Carlye

Will & Grace
1998
as Marilyn Truman

Great Performances
1971
as Nina / Alma Winemiller / Self / Narrator

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner / Self - Nominee

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

St. Elsewhere
1982
as Paige Gerradeaux
Good Day Live
2001
as Self

Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Margaret

Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Nurse Jackie
2009
as Maureen Cooper

American Gods
2017
as Demeter / Caroline Wells

Will & Grace
2017
as Marilyn Truman

From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Narrator (voice)

Today
1952
as Self

Up All Night
2011
as Angie Chafin

Patrick Melrose
2018
as Nancy Valance

Huff
2004
as Isabelle Huffstodt

The Slap
2015
as Virginia

Presidio Med
2002
as Dr. Harriet Lanning

Adam's Rib
1973
as Amanda Bonner

Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)
Tattingers
1988

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Elizabeth Custer / Bee Bedloe / Rebecca Holmes Davitch

Madoff
2016
as Ruth Madoff

Working Shakespeare
2003

Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Margarete Speer

Cruel Doubt
1992
as Bonnie Von Stein

Pretty/Handsome
as Bunny

Thomas Jefferson
1997
as Martha Jefferson (voice)

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut

Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
Movies (91)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
as Beatrice

Meet the Fockers
2004
as Dina Byrnes

Paul
2011
as Tara Walton

Meet the Parents
2000
as Dina Byrnes

The Lucky One
2012
as Nana

Detachment
2011
as Ms. Perkins

The X-Files
1998
as Cassidy

Little Fockers
2010
as Dina Byrnes

Focker-In-Law
2026
as Dina Byrnes

Napoleon
1995
as Mother Dingo (voice)

Futureworld
1976
as Tracy Ballard

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008
as Greta

The Prince of Tides
1991
as Sally Wingo

Wildwood
2026
as (voice)

What's Your Number?
2011
as Ava Darling

Another Woman
1988
as Lydia

1776
1972
as Martha Jefferson

Happiness for Beginners
2023
as Gigi

Forces of Nature
1999
as Virginia

Sylvia
2003
as Aurelia Plath

Hearts Beat Loud
2018
as Marianne Fisher

Alice
1990
as Dorothy

Mad City
1997
as Mrs. Banks

Strange but True
2019
as Gail

Tumbledown
2016
as Ellen Jespersen

The Last Kiss
2006
as Anna

The Love Letter
1999
as Lillian

What They Had
2018
as Ruth

Husbands and Wives
1992
as Rain's mother

The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)

I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
as Carol Petersen

Hearts of the West
1975
as Miss Trout

Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Elsa Maxwell

Waiting for Forever
2010
as Miranda Twist

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1976
as Alma Winemiller

The Proposition
1998
as Syril Danning

Hello I Must Be Going
2012
as Ruth

The Lightkeepers
2009
as Mrs. Bascom

Saint Maybe
1998
as Bee Bedloe

Homage
1995
as Katherine Samuel

Too Far to Go
1979
as Joan Barlow Maple

The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Lena

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
as Elizabeth Custer

Guilty Conscience
1985
as Louise Jamison

The Chaperone
2019
as Mary O'Dell

We Were the Mulvaneys
2002
as Corinne Mulvaney

The Great Santini
1979
as Lillian Meechum

Scarecrow
1972
as Rachel Merton

The Mayo Clinic
2018
as (voice)

Judgment
1990
as Emmeline Guitry

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
as Grace Barron

Murder of a Cat
2014
as Edie Moisey

No Looking Back
1998
as Claudia's Mom

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut

Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
as Kate

Getting Up and Going Home
1992
as Lily Montgomery
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Anne Sullivan

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
as Eleanor Gehrig

Halfway There
2017
as Jeanne Ross
Lincoln
1992
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
1998
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)

Lovin' Molly
1974
as Molly Taylor

Leave of Absence
1994
as Elisa

Back When We Were Grownups
2004
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch

The Invisible Circus
2001
as Gail

Are You in the House Alone?
1978
as Anne Osborne

Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)

The Tomorrow Man
2019
as Ronnie

Money, Power, Murder.
1989
as Jeannie

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
1974
as Zelda Fitzgerald

Man, Woman and Child
1983
as Sheila Beckwith

Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
1993
as Eleanor Levine
A Call to Remember
1997
as Paula Tobias

You Can't Take it With You
1979
as Alice Sycamore

Never Forget
1991
as Jane Mermelstein

Gilded Lilys
2013
as Caroline Lily

Things I Forgot to Remember
1999
as Mrs. Bradford

George M!
1970
as Agnes Nolan

Sidekicks
1974
as Prudy Jenkins

To Kill a Clown
1972
as Lily Frischer

The Seagull
1975
as Nina

In Defense of Kids
1983
as Ellen Wilcox

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
as The Daughter

Dr. Cook's Garden
1971
as Janey Rausch

Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
2016
as Aline Saarinen (voice)
Small Potatoes
as Mimi

To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
as Self and other assorted characters
Side by Each
2008
as Daisy/Delores/Delilah
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
2017
as Narrator

Eye of the Storm
1998
as Irma

Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
1987
as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
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 127 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Blythe Danner has appeared in 91 films and 36 TV shows.
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- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) — as Beatrice
- Meet the Fockers (2004) — as Dina Byrnes
- Paul (2011) — as Tara Walton
- Meet the Parents (2000) — as Dina Byrnes
- The Lucky One (2012) — as Nana
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