Blythe Danner
Acting • Born 1943-02-03
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
131 credits
Meet the Parents
Movie • 2000
Dina Byrnes
Meet the Fockers
Movie • 2004
Dina Byrnes
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Movie • 2008
Greta
Forces of Nature
Movie • 1999
Virginia
The X-Files
Movie • 1998
Cassidy
The Prince of Tides
Movie • 1991
Sally Wingo
Futureworld
Movie • 1976
Tracy Ballard
The Great Santini
Movie • 1979
Lillian Meechum
The Last Kiss
Movie • 2006
Anna
Another Woman
Movie • 1988
Lydia
The Love Letter
Movie • 1999
Lillian
Alice
Movie • 1990
Dorothy
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Movie • 1986
Kate
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
Movie • 2017
Narrator
Mad City
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Banks
What's Your Number?
Movie • 2011
Ava Darling
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Movie • 1993
Eleanor Levine
Paul
Movie • 2011
Tara Walton
Guilty Conscience
Movie • 1985
Louise Jamison
Little Fockers
Movie • 2010
Dina Byrnes
The Invisible Circus
Movie • 2001
Gail
The Lightkeepers
Movie • 2009
Mrs. Bascom
Waiting for Forever
Movie • 2010
Miranda Twist
Hearts of the West
Movie • 1975
Miss Trout
Hello I Must Be Going
Movie • 2012
Ruth
Detachment
Movie • 2011
Ms. Perkins
Are You in the House Alone?
Movie • 1978
Anne Osborne
Saint Maybe
Movie • 1998
Bee Bedloe
No Looking Back
Movie • 1998
Claudia's Mom
The Lucky One
Movie • 2012
Nana
The Myth of Fingerprints
Movie • 1997
Lena
Back When We Were Grownups
Movie • 2004
Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Movie • 1984
Anne Sullivan
Too Far to Go
Movie • 1979
Joan Barlow Maple
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Movie • 1990
Grace Barron
Never Forget
Movie • 1991
Jane Mermelstein
Mark Twain
Movie • 2002
Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
Happiness for Beginners
Movie • 2023
Gigi
Money, Power, Murder.
Movie • 1989
Jeannie
Man, Woman and Child
Movie • 1983
Sheila Beckwith
Lovin' Molly
Movie • 1974
Molly Taylor
Tumbledown
Movie • 2016
Ellen Jespersen
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Movie • 1978
Eleanor Gehrig
To Kill a Clown
Movie • 1972
Lily Frischer
A Call to Remember
Movie • 1997
Paula Tobias
We Were the Mulvaneys
Movie • 2002
Corinne Mulvaney
Dr. Cook's Garden
Movie • 1971
Janey Rausch
Sidekicks
Movie • 1974
Prudy Jenkins
Things I Forgot to Remember
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Bradford
Side by Each
Movie • 2008
Daisy/Delores/Delilah
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Movie • 1994
Bianca Honicut
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Movie • 1976
Alma Winemiller
Murder of a Cat
Movie • 2014
Edie Moisey
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Movie • 1992
The Daughter
Homage
Movie • 1995
Katherine Samuel
Getting Up and Going Home
Movie • 1992
Lily Montgomery
The Proposition
Movie • 1998
Syril Danning
I'll See You in My Dreams
Movie • 2015
Carol Petersen
You Can't Take it With You
Movie • 1979
Alice Sycamore
Husbands and Wives
Movie • 1992
Rain's mother
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Movie • 1977
Elizabeth Custer
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
1776
Movie • 1972
Martha Jefferson
Scarecrow
Movie • 1972
Rachel Merton
Sylvia
Movie • 2003
Aurelia Plath
Judgment
Movie • 1990
Emmeline Guitry
Gilded Lilys
Movie • 2013
Caroline Lily
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Movie • 1974
Zelda Fitzgerald
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Movie • 2016
Aline Saarinen (voice)
Leave of Absence
Movie • 1994
Elisa
What They Had
Movie • 2018
Ruth
In Defense of Kids
Movie • 1983
Ellen Wilcox
Hearts Beat Loud
Movie • 2018
Marianne Fisher
Strange but True
Movie • 2019
Gail
The Chaperone
Movie • 2019
Mary O'Dell
Halfway There
Movie • 2017
Jeanne Ross
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Murphy (voice)
George M!
Movie • 1970
Agnes Nolan
The Tomorrow Man
Movie • 2019
Ronnie
Beyond All Boundaries
Movie • 2009
Elsa Maxwell
Eye of the Storm
Movie • 1998
Irma
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Movie • 1995
Beatrice
Napoleon
Movie • 1995
Mother Dingo (voice)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Movie • 1972
Self and other assorted characters
The Seagull
Movie • 1975
Nina
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
Movie • 1987
Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
The Great War
Movie • 2017
Self (voice)
Focker-In-Law
Movie • 2026
Dina Byrnes
The Mayo Clinic
Movie • 2018
(voice)
Small Potatoes
Movie
Mimi
Presidio Med
TV • 2002
Dr. Harriet Lanning
Medium
TV • 2005
Louise Leaming
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Paige Gerradeaux
Columbo
TV • 1971
Janice Benedict
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Carlye
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Huff
TV • 2004
Isabelle Huffstodt
Today
TV • 1952
Self
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Margaret
American Gods
TV • 2017
Demeter / Caroline Wells
American Gods
TV • 2017
Demeter
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Marilyn Truman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Elizabeth Custer
Pretty/Handsome
TV
Bunny
Adam's Rib
TV • 1973
Amanda Bonner
Tattingers
TV • 1988
Good Day Live
TV • 2001
Self
Patrick Melrose
TV • 2018
Nancy Valance
Thomas Jefferson
TV • 1997
Martha Jefferson
Up All Night
TV • 2011
Angie Chafin
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
The Slap
TV • 2015
Virginia
From the Earth to the Moon
TV • 1998
narrator
Mark Twain
TV • 2002
Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self - Narrator (voice)
Madoff
TV • 2016
Ruth Madoff
Cruel Doubt
TV • 1992
Bonnie Von Stein
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Bee Bedloe
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Will & Grace
TV • 2017
Marilyn Truman
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
TV • 1994
Bianca Honicut
Prohibition
TV • 2011
Reader (voice)
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Nina
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Alma Winemiller
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Narrator
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Working Shakespeare
TV • 2003
Inside the Third Reich
TV • 1982
Margarete Speer
Nurse Jackie
TV • 2009
Maureen Cooper