Blythe Danner

Personal Info

Birthday

February 3, 1943

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

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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 For

Columbo

Medium

M*A*S*H

Will & Grace

Great Performances

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

St. Elsewhere

Tales from the Crypt

Filmography

2026
Focker-In-Law
as Dina Byrnes
2023
Happiness for Beginners
as Gigi
2019
Strange But True
as Gail
The Tomorrow Man
as Ronnie
The Chaperone
as Mary O'Dell
2018
What They Had
as Ruth
The Mayo Clinic
as (voice)
Hearts Beat Loud
as Marianne Fisher
2017
Halfway There
as Jeanne Ross
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
as Narrator
The Great War
as Self (voice)
2016
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
as Aline Saarinen (voice)
Tumbledown
as Ellen Jespersen
2015
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
Hello I Must Be Going
as Ruth
The Lucky One
as Nana
2011
What's Your Number?
as Ava Darling
Detachment
as Ms. Perkins
Paul
as Tara Walton
2010
Little Fockers
as Dina Byrnes
Waiting for Forever
as Miranda Twist
2009
The Lightkeepers
as Mrs. Bascom
Beyond All Boundaries
as Elsa Maxwell
2008
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
as Greta
2006
The Last Kiss
as Anna
2004
Meet the Fockers
as Dina Byrnes
Back When We Were Grownups
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
2003
Sylvia
as Aurelia Plath
2002
We Were the Mulvaneys
as Corinne Mulvaney
Mark Twain
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
2001
The Invisible Circus
as Gail
2000
Meet the Parents
as Dina Byrnes
1999
Things I Forgot to Remember
as Mrs. Bradford
The Love Letter
as Lillian
Forces of Nature
as Virginia
1998
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
Saint Maybe
as Bee Bedloe
The X-Files
as Cassidy
No Looking Back
as Claudia's Mom
The Proposition
as Syril Danning
Eye of the Storm
as Irma
1997
Mad City
as Mrs. Banks
The Myth of Fingerprints
as Lena
A Call to Remember
as Paula Tobias
1995
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Beatrice
Napoleon
as Mother Dingo (voice)
Homage
as Katherine Samuel
1994
Leave of Absence
as Elisa
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Bianca Honicut
1993
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
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
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jeannie
1988
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
In Defense of Kids
as Ellen Wilcox
Man, Woman and Child
as Sheila Beckwith
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
Hearts of the West
as Miss Trout
The Seagull
as Nina
1974
Lovin' Molly
as Molly Taylor
Sidekicks
as Prudy Jenkins
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
as Zelda Fitzgerald
1972
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
Dr. Cook's Garden
as Janey Rausch
1970
George M!
as Agnes Nolan