Blythe Danner

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

Focker-In-Law

2026 • Dina Byrnes

Happiness for Beginners

2018 • Marianne Fisher

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Focker-In-Law

2026 • Dina Byrnes

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Happiness for Beginners

2023 • Gigi

2019 • Gail

2019 • Ronnie

2019 • Mary O'Dell

2018 • Ruth

2018 • (voice)

2018 • Marianne Fisher

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Halfway There

2017 • Jeanne Ross

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Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport

2017 • Narrator

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The Great War

2017 • Self (voice)

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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future

2016 • Aline Saarinen (voice)

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Tumbledown

2016 • Ellen Jespersen

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I'll See You in My Dreams

2015 • Carol Petersen

2014 • Edie Moisey

2013 • Caroline Lily

Hello I Must Be Going

2012 • Ruth

2012 • Nana

2011 • Ava Darling

2011 • Ms. Perkins

2011 • Tara Walton

2010 • Dina Byrnes

2010 • Miranda Twist

2009 • Mrs. Bascom

Beyond All Boundaries

2009 • Elsa Maxwell

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

2008 • Greta

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Side by Each

2008 • Daisy/Delores/Delilah

2006 • Anna

2004 • Dina Byrnes

Back When We Were Grownups

2004 • Rebecca Holmes Davitch

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Sylvia

2003 • Aurelia Plath

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We Were the Mulvaneys

2002 • Corinne Mulvaney

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Mark Twain

2002 • Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)

2001 • Gail

2000 • Dina Byrnes

Things I Forgot to Remember

1999 • Mrs. Bradford

1999 • Lillian

1999 • Virginia

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

1998 • Mrs. Murphy (voice)

1998 • Bee Bedloe

1998 • Cassidy

1998 • Claudia's Mom

1998 • Syril Danning

1998 • Irma

1997 • Mrs. Banks

The Myth of Fingerprints

1997 • Lena

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A Call to Remember

1997 • Paula Tobias

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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995 • Beatrice

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Napoleon

1995 • Mother Dingo (voice)

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Homage

1995 • Katherine Samuel

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Leave of Absence

1994 • Elisa

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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994 • Bianca Honicut

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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York

1993 • Eleanor Levine

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Lincoln

1992 • Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)

1992 • The Daughter

1992 • Rain's mother

Getting Up and Going Home

1992 • Lily Montgomery

1991 • Sally Wingo

1991 • Jane Mermelstein

1990 • Dorothy

1990 • Grace Barron

1990 • Emmeline Guitry

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Money, Power, Murder.

1989 • Jeannie

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Another Woman

1988 • Lydia

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Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

1987 • Voice of Elizabeth Bishop

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

1986 • Kate

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Guilty Conscience

1985 • Louise Jamison

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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

1984 • Anne Sullivan

1983 • Ellen Wilcox

1983 • Sheila Beckwith

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The Great Santini

1979 • Lillian Meechum

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You Can't Take it With You

1979 • Alice Sycamore

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Too Far to Go

1979 • Joan Barlow Maple

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Are You in the House Alone?

1978 • Anne Osborne

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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978 • Eleanor Gehrig

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The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

1977 • Elizabeth Custer

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Futureworld

1976 • Tracy Ballard

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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976 • Alma Winemiller

1975 • Miss Trout

1975 • Nina

1974 • Molly Taylor

1974 • Prudy Jenkins

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

1974 • Zelda Fitzgerald

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1776

1972 • Martha Jefferson

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To Kill a Clown

1972 • Lily Frischer

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

1972 • Self and other assorted characters

1972 • Rachel Merton

1971 • Janey Rausch

1970 • Agnes Nolan

Unknown year • Mimi