
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