Blythe Danner

Actor Feb 3 (age 83) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1944–2026 (82 year career)

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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

Film

The Lucky One

Nana

Film

Paul

Tara Walton

Film

Meet the Parents

Dina Byrnes

Film

Detachment

Ms. Perkins

Film

Meet the Fockers

Dina Byrnes

Film

The X-Files

Cassidy

Film

What's Your Number?

Ava Darling

Film

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Beatrice

Filmography

Acting (126)

Movies (90)

Focker-In-Law

2026 Upcoming

as Dina Byrnes

Nov 25

Happiness for Beginners

as Gigi

The Tomorrow Man

as Ronnie

Strange but True

as Gail

The Chaperone

as Mary O'Dell

What They Had

as Ruth

Hearts Beat Loud

as Marianne Fisher

The Mayo Clinic

as (voice)

Halfway There

as Jeanne Ross

Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport

2017

as Narrator

The Great War

2017

as Self (voice)

7.0

Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future

2016

as Aline Saarinen (voice)

6.3

Tumbledown

2016

as Ellen Jespersen

6.2

I'll See You in My Dreams

as Carol Petersen

Murder of a Cat

as Edie Moisey

Gilded Lilys

as Caroline Lily

The Lucky One

2012

as Nana

7.2

Hello I Must Be Going

as Ruth

Detachment

as Ms. Perkins

Paul

as Tara Walton

What's Your Number?

as Ava Darling

Little Fockers

as Dina Byrnes

Waiting for Forever

as Miranda Twist

Beyond All Boundaries

as Elsa Maxwell

The Lightkeepers

as Mrs. Bascom

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

as Greta

Side by Each

The Last Kiss

as Anna

Meet the Fockers

as Dina Byrnes

Back When We Were Grownups

2004

as Rebecca Holmes Davitch

4.6

Sylvia

2003

as Aurelia Plath

5.7

We Were the Mulvaneys

2002

as Corinne Mulvaney

6.5

Mark Twain

2002

as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)

The Invisible Circus

as Gail

Meet the Parents

as Dina Byrnes

Forces of Nature

as Virginia

The Love Letter

as Lillian

Things I Forgot to Remember

1999

as Mrs. Bradford

The X-Files

as Cassidy

No Looking Back

as Claudia's Mom

The Proposition

as Syril Danning

Saint Maybe

as Bee Bedloe

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

1998

as Mrs. Murphy (voice)

Eye of the Storm

as Irma

Mad City

as Mrs. Banks

The Myth of Fingerprints

as Lena

A Call to Remember

as Paula Tobias

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995

as Beatrice

7.4

Napoleon

1995

as Mother Dingo (voice)

Homage

as Katherine Samuel

Leave of Absence

as Elisa

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994

as Bianca Honicut

5.4

Tracey Ullman Takes on New York

1993

as Eleanor Levine

4.8

Getting Up and Going Home

1992

as Lily Montgomery

Husbands and Wives

1992

as Rain's mother

7.0

Lincoln

1992

as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)

6.8

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

1992

as The Daughter

The Prince of Tides

as Sally Wingo

Never Forget

as Jane Mermelstein

Alice

as Dorothy

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

as Grace Barron

Judgment

as Emmeline Guitry

Money, Power, Murder.

as Jeannie

Another Woman

as Lydia

Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

1987

as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop

Brighton Beach Memoirs

as Kate

Guilty Conscience

as Louise Jamison

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

as Anne Sullivan

In Defense of Kids

as Ellen Wilcox

Man, Woman and Child

as Sheila Beckwith

The Great Santini

as Lillian Meechum

You Can't Take it With You

1979

as Alice Sycamore

Too Far to Go

1979

as Joan Barlow Maple

2.0

Are You in the House Alone?

1978

as Anne Osborne

6.3

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978

as Eleanor Gehrig

9.0

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

as Elizabeth Custer

Futureworld

as Tracy Ballard

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976

as Alma Winemiller

8.3

The Seagull

1975

as Nina

Hearts of the West

as Miss Trout

Lovin' Molly

as Molly Taylor

Sidekicks

as Prudy Jenkins

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

as Zelda Fitzgerald

1776

as Martha Jefferson

Scarecrow

as Rachel Merton

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

1972

as Self and other assorted characters

To Kill a Clown

as Lily Frischer

Dr. Cook's Garden

as Janey Rausch

George M!

as Agnes Nolan

Small Potatoes

as Mimi

Television (36)

Patrick Melrose

as Nancy Valance

American Gods

as Demeter

Will & Grace

as Marilyn Truman

Madoff

as Ruth Madoff

The Slap

as Virginia

Up All Night

as Angie Chafin

Prohibition

as Reader (voice)

Nurse Jackie

as Maureen Cooper

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self

Medium

as Louise Leaming

Huff

as Isabelle Huffstodt

7.7

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

Working Shakespeare

Presidio Med

as Dr. Harriet Lanning

8.0

Mark Twain

2002

as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)

Good Day Live

as Self

Will & Grace

as Marilyn Truman

From the Earth to the Moon

as narrator

Thomas Jefferson

as Martha Jefferson

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994

as Bianca Honicut

5.0

Intimate Portrait

1993

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Cruel Doubt

as Bonnie Von Stein

Tales from the Crypt

as Margaret

Tattingers

St. Elsewhere

as Paige Gerradeaux

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Margarete Speer

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Adam's Rib

as Amanda Bonner

M*A*S*H

as Carlye

Columbo

as Janice Benedict

Great Performances

as Nina

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Today

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Elizabeth Custer

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Pretty/Handsome

as Bunny

2.8