Blythe Danner

Known for: Acting

Born: 1943-02-03 (age 83)

From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.

Filmography (129)

MOVIE
Focker-In-Law
2026
as Dina Byrnes
MOVIE
Wildwood
2026
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Happiness for Beginners
2023
as Gigi
MOVIE★ 6.0
Strange but True
2019
as Gail
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Tomorrow Man
2019
as Ronnie
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Chaperone
2019
as Mary O'Dell
MOVIE★ 6.5
What They Had
2018
as Ruth
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.8
Hearts Beat Loud
2018
as Marianne Fisher
TV★ 7.5
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Nancy Valance
MOVIE★ 2.0
Halfway There
2017
as Jeanne Ross
MOVIE
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
2017
as Narrator
TV★ 7.5
Will & Grace
2017
as Marilyn Truman
TV★ 7.1
American Gods
2017
as Demeter / Caroline Wells
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)
TV★ 9.0
The Great War
2017
as Self (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.3
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
2016
as Aline Saarinen (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Tumbledown
2016
as Ellen Jespersen
TV★ 6.4
Madoff
2016
as Ruth Madoff
MOVIE★ 6.3
I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
as Carol Petersen
TV★ 5.9
The Slap
2015
as Virginia
MOVIE★ 5.0
Murder of a Cat
2014
as Edie Moisey
MOVIE★ 8.0
Gilded Lilys
2013
as Caroline Lily
MOVIE★ 5.9
Hello I Must Be Going
2012
as Ruth
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Lucky One
2012
as Nana
TV★ 7.9
Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.5
What's Your Number?
2011
as Ava Darling
TV★ 6.0
Up All Night
2011
as Angie Chafin
MOVIE★ 7.6
Detachment
2011
as Ms. Perkins
MOVIE★ 6.7
Paul
2011
as Tara Walton
MOVIE★ 5.7
Little Fockers
2010
as Dina Byrnes
MOVIE★ 5.9
Waiting for Forever
2010
as Miranda Twist
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Mrs. Bascom
MOVIE★ 6.8
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Elsa Maxwell
TV★ 7.1
Nurse Jackie
2009
as Maureen Cooper
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008
as Greta
MOVIE★ 10.0
Side by Each
2008
as Daisy/Delores/Delilah
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Last Kiss
2006
as Anna
TV★ 7.5
Medium
2005
as Louise Leaming
TV★ 6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.3
Meet the Fockers
2004
as Dina Byrnes
MOVIE★ 4.8
Back When We Were Grownups
2004
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
TV★ 7.7
Huff
2004
as Isabelle Huffstodt
MOVIE★ 5.8
Sylvia
2003
as Aurelia Plath
TV★ 5.5
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
TV
Working Shakespeare
2003
TV★ 8.0
Presidio Med
2002
as Dr. Harriet Lanning
MOVIE★ 6.8
We Were the Mulvaneys
2002
as Corinne Mulvaney
MOVIE★ 7.1
Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
TV
Mark Twain
2002
as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
TV★ 3.8
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Invisible Circus
2001
as Gail
MOVIE★ 6.7
Meet the Parents
2000
as Dina Byrnes
MOVIE★ 7.0
Things I Forgot to Remember
1999
as Mrs. Bradford
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Love Letter
1999
as Lillian
MOVIE★ 5.5
Forces of Nature
1999
as Virginia
MOVIE★ 7.6
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
1998
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.6
Saint Maybe
1998
as Bee Bedloe
TV★ 6.9
Will & Grace
1998
as Marilyn Truman
MOVIE★ 6.9
The X-Files
1998
as Cassidy
TV★ 8.1
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.5
No Looking Back
1998
as Claudia's Mom
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Proposition
1998
as Syril Danning
MOVIE★ 6.7
Eye of the Storm
1998
as Irma
MOVIE★ 6.2
Mad City
1997
as Mrs. Banks
MOVIE★ 5.1
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Lena
MOVIE★ 6.4
A Call to Remember
1997
as Paula Tobias
TV★ 7.5
Thomas Jefferson
1997
as Martha Jefferson (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.4
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
as Beatrice
MOVIE★ 6.2
Napoleon
1995
as Mother Dingo (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.5
Homage
1995
as Katherine Samuel
MOVIE★ 4.5
Leave of Absence
1994
as Elisa
MOVIE★ 4.5
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut
TV★ 6.8
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Bianca Honicut
TV★ 4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
1993
as Eleanor Levine
MOVIE★ 7.3
Lincoln
1992
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
as The Daughter
MOVIE★ 7.0
Husbands and Wives
1992
as Rain's mother
MOVIE★ 10.0
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
as Lily Montgomery
TV★ 4.8
Cruel Doubt
1992
as Bonnie Von Stein
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Prince of Tides
1991
as Sally Wingo
MOVIE★ 5.0
Never Forget
1991
as Jane Mermelstein
MOVIE★ 6.4
Alice
1990
as Dorothy
MOVIE★ 6.1
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
as Grace Barron
MOVIE★ 5.5
Judgment
1990
as Emmeline Guitry
MOVIE★ 5.4
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
as Jeannie
TV★ 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Margaret
TV★ 6.0
Tattingers
1988
MOVIE★ 6.8
Another Woman
1988
as Lydia
MOVIE
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
1987
as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
MOVIE★ 6.6
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
as Kate
MOVIE★ 6.0
Guilty Conscience
1985
as Louise Jamison
MOVIE★ 7.0
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Anne Sullivan
MOVIE★ 7.0
In Defense of Kids
1983
as Ellen Wilcox
MOVIE★ 5.6
Man, Woman and Child
1983
as Sheila Beckwith
TV★ 5.7
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Paige Gerradeaux
TV★ 8.0
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Margarete Speer
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Great Santini
1979
as Lillian Meechum
MOVIE★ 7.0
You Can't Take it With You
1979
as Alice Sycamore
MOVIE★ 3.5
Too Far to Go
1979
as Joan Barlow Maple
MOVIE★ 6.5
Are You in the House Alone?
1978
as Anne Osborne
MOVIE★ 9.5
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
as Eleanor Gehrig
MOVIE★ 2.0
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
as Elizabeth Custer
MOVIE★ 5.9
Futureworld
1976
as Tracy Ballard
MOVIE★ 8.3
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1976
as Alma Winemiller
TV★ 6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
MOVIE★ 5.7
Hearts of the West
1975
as Miss Trout
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Seagull
1975
as Nina
MOVIE★ 4.9
Lovin' Molly
1974
as Molly Taylor
MOVIE★ 6.5
Sidekicks
1974
as Prudy Jenkins
MOVIE★ 5.2
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
1974
as Zelda Fitzgerald
TV★ 7.5
Adam's Rib
1973
as Amanda Bonner
MOVIE★ 6.9
1776
1972
as Martha Jefferson
TV★ 7.9
M*A*S*H
1972
as Carlye
MOVIE★ 5.7
To Kill a Clown
1972
as Lily Frischer
MOVIE★ 7.0
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
as Self and other assorted characters
MOVIE★ 8.0
Scarecrow
1972
as Rachel Merton
TV★ 8.1
Columbo
1971
as Janice Benedict
TV★ 6.1
Great Performances
1971
as Nina
MOVIE★ 6.8
Dr. Cook's Garden
1971
as Janey Rausch
MOVIE★ 8.5
George M!
1970
as Agnes Nolan
TV
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
TV★ 5.7
Today
1952
as Self
TV★ 8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Elizabeth Custer
TV★ 7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
TV★ 2.8
Pretty/Handsome
—
as Bunny
MOVIE
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
—
as Self
MOVIE
Small Potatoes
—
as Mimi