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