Blythe Danner
Acting
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Acting Credits
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
Filmography
Focker-In-Law
2026
as Dina Byrnes
Happiness for Beginners
2023
as Gigi
Strange but True
2019
as Gail
The Chaperone
2019
as Mary O'Dell
The Tomorrow Man
2019
as Ronnie
What They Had
2018
as Ruth
Hearts Beat Loud
2018
as Marianne Fisher
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as (voice)
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Nancy Valance
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
2017
as Narrator
Halfway There
2017
as Jeanne Ross
The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)
American Gods
2017
as Demeter / Caroline Wells
American Gods
2017
as Demeter
Will & Grace
2017
as Marilyn Truman
Tumbledown
2016
as Ellen Jespersen
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
2016
as Aline Saarinen (voice)
Madoff
2016
as Ruth Madoff
I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
as Carol Petersen
The Slap
2015
as Virginia
Murder of a Cat
2014
as Edie Moisey
Gilded Lilys
2013
as Caroline Lily
Hello I Must Be Going
2012
as Ruth
The Lucky One
2012
as Nana
What's Your Number?
2011
as Ava Darling
Paul
2011
as Tara Walton
Detachment
2011
as Ms. Perkins
Up All Night
2011
as Angie Chafin
Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)
Little Fockers
2010
as Dina Byrnes
Waiting for Forever
2010
as Miranda Twist
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Mrs. Bascom
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Elsa Maxwell
Nurse Jackie
2009
as Maureen Cooper
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008
as Greta
Side by Each
2008
as Daisy/Delores/Delilah
The Last Kiss
2006
as Anna
Medium
2005
as Louise Leaming
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Meet the Fockers
2004
as Dina Byrnes
Back When We Were Grownups
2004
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Huff
2004
as Isabelle Huffstodt
Sylvia
2003
as Aurelia Plath
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Working Shakespeare
2003
Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
We Were the Mulvaneys
2002
as Corinne Mulvaney
Presidio Med
2002
as Dr. Harriet Lanning
Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
The Invisible Circus
2001
as Gail
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
Meet the Parents
2000
as Dina Byrnes
Forces of Nature
1999
as Virginia
The Love Letter
1999
as Lillian
Things I Forgot to Remember
1999
as Mrs. Bradford
The X-Files
1998
as Cassidy
Saint Maybe
1998
as Bee Bedloe
No Looking Back
1998
as Claudia's Mom
The Proposition
1998
as Syril Danning
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
1998
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
Eye of the Storm
1998
as Irma
Will & Grace
1998
as Marilyn Truman
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as narrator
Mad City
1997
as Mrs. Banks
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Lena
A Call to Remember
1997
as Paula Tobias
Thomas Jefferson
1997
as Martha Jefferson
Homage
1995
as Katherine Samuel
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
as Beatrice
Napoleon
1995
as Mother Dingo (voice)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut
Leave of Absence
1994
as Elisa
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
1993
as Eleanor Levine
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
as The Daughter
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
as Lily Montgomery
Husbands and Wives
1992
as Rain's mother
Lincoln
1992
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
Cruel Doubt
1992
as Bonnie Von Stein
The Prince of Tides
1991
as Sally Wingo
Never Forget
1991
as Jane Mermelstein
Alice
1990
as Dorothy
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
as Grace Barron
Judgment
1990
as Emmeline Guitry
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
as Jeannie
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Margaret
Another Woman
1988
as Lydia
Tattingers
1988
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
1987
as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
as Kate
Guilty Conscience
1985
as Louise Jamison
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Anne Sullivan
Man, Woman and Child
1983
as Sheila Beckwith
In Defense of Kids
1983
as Ellen Wilcox
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Paige Gerradeaux
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Margarete Speer
The Great Santini
1979
as Lillian Meechum
Too Far to Go
1979
as Joan Barlow Maple
You Can't Take it With You
1979
as Alice Sycamore
Are You in the House Alone?
1978
as Anne Osborne
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
as Eleanor Gehrig
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
as Elizabeth Custer
Futureworld
1976
as Tracy Ballard
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1976
as Alma Winemiller
Hearts of the West
1975
as Miss Trout
The Seagull
1975
as Nina
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Lovin' Molly
1974
as Molly Taylor
Sidekicks
1974
as Prudy Jenkins
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
1974
as Zelda Fitzgerald
Adam's Rib
1973
as Amanda Bonner
To Kill a Clown
1972
as Lily Frischer
1776
1972
as Martha Jefferson
Scarecrow
1972
as Rachel Merton
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
as Self and other assorted characters
M*A*S*H
1972
as Carlye
Dr. Cook's Garden
1971
as Janey Rausch
Columbo
1971
as Janice Benedict
Great Performances
1971
as Nina
Great Performances
1971
as Alma Winemiller
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Great Performances
1971
as Narrator
George M!
1970
as Agnes Nolan
Today
1952
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Elizabeth Custer
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Bee Bedloe
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee