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
Wildwood (2026)
as The Seer (voice)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
as Dina Byrnes
The Lucky One (2012)
as Nana
Meet the Parents (2000)
as Dina Byrnes
Paul (2011)
as Tara Walton
Focker-in-Law (2026)
as Dina Byrnes
The X-Files (1998)
as Cassidy
Little Fockers (2010)
as Dina Byrnes
Futureworld (1976)
as Tracy Ballard
What's Your Number? (2011)
as Ava Darling
Detachment (2011)
as Ms. Perkins
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
as Beatrice
Lovin' Molly (1974)
as Molly Taylor
Strange but True (2019)
as Gail
Pretty/Handsome (2008)
as Bunny Fitzpayne
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
as Greta
Halfway There (2017)
as Jeanne Ross
I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)
as Carol Petersen
Mad City (1997)
as Mrs. Banks
Forces of Nature (1999)
as Virginia
The Prince of Tides (1991)
as Sally Wingo
Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
as Marianne Fisher
Happiness for Beginners (2023)
as Gigi
Husbands and Wives (1992)
as Rain's mother
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
as Grace Barron
1776 (1972)
as Martha Jefferson
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
as Lena
The Last Kiss (2006)
as Anna
Alice (1990)
as Dorothy
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare (—)
as Self
Man, Woman and Child (1983)
as Sheila Beckwith
The Love Letter (1999)
as Lillian
Mark Twain (2002)
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
Another Woman (1988)
as Lydia
Tumbledown (2016)
as Ellen Jespersen
The Mayo Clinic (2018)
as (voice)
What They Had (2018)
as Ruth
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984)
as Anne Sullivan
Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
as Ruth
Sidekicks (1974)
as Prudy Jenkins
Sylvia (2003)
as Aurelia Plath
The Tomorrow Man (2019)
as Ronnie
The Proposition (1998)
as Syril Danning
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
as Kate
The Invisible Circus (2001)
as Gail
Murder of a Cat (2014)
as Edie Moisey
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978)
as Eleanor Gehrig
The Great Santini (1979)
as Lillian Meechum
Judgment (1990)
as Emmeline Guitry
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)
as Alma Winemiller
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
as Bianca Honicut
The Chaperone (2019)
as Mary O'Dell
Too Far to Go (1979)
as Joan Barlow Maple
Back When We Were Grownups (2004)
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Waiting for Forever (2010)
as Miranda Twist
Hearts of the West (1975)
as Miss Trout
Never Forget (1991)
as Jane Mermelstein
Guilty Conscience (1985)
as Louise Jamison
Things I Forgot to Remember (1999)
as Mrs. Bradford
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art (1987)
as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
as Elsa Maxwell
No Looking Back (1998)
as Claudia's Mom
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles (1974)
as Zelda Fitzgerald
A Call to Remember (1997)
as Paula Tobias
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (1998)
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
as Corinne Mulvaney
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
Leave of Absence (1994)
as Elisa
Are You in the House Alone? (1978)
as Anne Osborne
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York (1993)
as Eleanor Levine
Money, Power, Murder. (1989)
as Jeannie
The Lightkeepers (2009)
as Mrs. Bascom
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)
The Seagull (1975)
as Nina
To Kill a Clown (1972)
as Lily Frischer
Homage (1995)
as Katherine Samuel
George M! (1970)
as Agnes Nolan
Gilded Lilys (2013)
as Caroline Lily
Scarecrow (1972)
as Rachel Merton
Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
as Janey Rausch
Lincoln (1992)
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
Saint Maybe (1998)
as Bee Bedloe
Small Potatoes (—)
as Mimi
In Defense of Kids (1983)
as Ellen Wilcox
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977)
as Elizabeth Custer
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport (2017)
as Narrator
Side by Each (2008)
as Daisy/Delores/Delilah