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

Saturday Night Live
1982
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Columbo
1972
Medium
2009
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2005
Great Performances
1975
M*A*S*H
1976
Will & Grace
2001
Golden Globe Awards
2008
Tony Awards
1963
St. Elsewhere
1984
Good Day Live
2004

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
134
2026
Focker-in-Law
as Dina Byrnes · unreleased
2026
Wildwood
as (voice) · unreleased
2023
Happiness for Beginners
as Gigi
2021
American Gods
as Demeter / Caroline Wells
2021
American Gods
as Demeter
2019
Strange but True
as Gail
2019
The Chaperone
as Mary O'Dell
2019
The Tomorrow Man
as Ronnie
2018
What They Had
as Ruth
2018
Hearts Beat Loud
as Marianne Fisher
2018
The Mayo Clinic
as (voice)
2018
Patrick Melrose
as Nancy Valance
2018
Will & Grace
as Marilyn Truman
2017
Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
as Narrator
2017
Halfway There
as Jeanne Ross
2017
The Great War
as Self (voice)
2016
Tumbledown
as Ellen Jespersen
2016
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
as Aline Saarinen (voice)
2016
Madoff
as Ruth Madoff
2015
I'll See You in My Dreams
as Carol Petersen
2015
The Slap
as Virginia
2014
Murder of a Cat
as Edie Moisey
2013
Gilded Lilys
as Caroline Lily
2012
Hello I Must Be Going
as Ruth
2012
The Lucky One
as Nana
2011
What's Your Number?
as Ava Darling
2011
Paul
as Tara Walton
2011
Detachment
as Ms. Perkins
2011
Up All Night
as Angie Chafin
2011
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)
2010
Little Fockers
as Dina Byrnes
2010
Waiting for Forever
as Miranda Twist
2009
The Lightkeepers
as Mrs. Bascom
2009
Beyond All Boundaries
as Elsa Maxwell
2009
Medium
as Louise Leaming
2009
Nurse Jackie
as Maureen Cooper
2008
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
as Greta
2008
Side by Each
as Daisy/Delores/Delilah
2008
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
2006
The Last Kiss
as Anna
2006
Today
as Self
2005
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2004
Meet the Fockers
as Dina Byrnes
2004
Back When We Were Grownups
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
2004
Huff
as Isabelle Huffstodt
2004
Good Day Live
as Self
2004
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
2003
Sylvia
as Aurelia Plath
2003
Working Shakespeare
2002
Mark Twain
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
2002
We Were the Mulvaneys
as Corinne Mulvaney
2002
Presidio Med
as Harriet Lanning
2002
Mark Twain
as Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
2001
The Invisible Circus
as Gail
2001
Will & Grace
as Marilyn Truman
2000
Meet the Parents
as Dina Byrnes
1999
Forces of Nature
as Virginia
1999
The Love Letter
as Lillian
1999
Things I Forgot to Remember
as Mrs. Bradford
1999
Intimate Portrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
The X-Files
as Cassidy
1998
Saint Maybe
as Bee Bedloe
1998
No Looking Back
as Claudia's Mom
1998
The Proposition
as Syril Danning
1998
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)
1998
Eye of the Storm
as Irma
1998
From the Earth to the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
1998
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Bee Bedloe
1997
Mad City
as Mrs. Banks
1997
The Myth of Fingerprints
as Lena
1997
A Call to Remember
as Paula Tobias
1997
Thomas Jefferson
as Martha Jefferson (voice)
1995
Homage
as Katherine Samuel
1995
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Beatrice
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Bianca Honicut
1994
Leave of Absence
as Elisa
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Bianca Honicut
1993
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
as Eleanor Levine
1993
Great Performances
as Narrator
1992
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
as The Daughter
1992
Getting Up and Going Home
as Lily Montgomery
1992
Husbands and Wives
as Rain's mother
1992
Lincoln
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
1992
Tales from the Crypt
as Margaret
1992
Cruel Doubt
as Bonnie Von Stein
1991
The Prince of Tides
as Sally Wingo
1991
Never Forget
as Jane Mermelstein
1990
Alice
as Dorothy
1990
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
as Grace Barron
1990
Judgment
as Emmeline Guitry
1989
Money, Power, Murder.
as Jeannie
1988
Another Woman
as Lydia
1988
Tattingers
1987
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
as Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
1986
Brighton Beach Memoirs
as Kate
1985
Guilty Conscience
as Louise Jamison
1984
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
as Anne Sullivan
1984
St. Elsewhere
as Paige Gerradeaux
1983
Man, Woman and Child
as Sheila Beckwith
1983
In Defense of Kids
as Ellen Wilcox
1982
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1982
Great Performances
as Self
1982
Inside the Third Reich
as Margarete Speer
1979
The Great Santini
as Lillian Meechum
1979
Too Far to Go
as Joan Barlow Maple
1979
You Can't Take it With You
as Alice Sycamore
1978
Are You in the House Alone?
as Anne Osborne
1978
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
as Eleanor Gehrig
1977
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Elizabeth Custer
1977
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Elizabeth Custer
1976
Futureworld
as Tracy Ballard
1976
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
as Alma Winemiller
1976
M*A*S*H
as Carlye
1976
Great Performances
as Alma Winemiller
1975
Hearts of the West
as Miss Trout
1975
The Seagull
as Nina
1975
Great Performances
as Nina
1974
Lovin' Molly
as Molly Taylor
1974
Sidekicks
as Prudy Jenkins
1974
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
as Zelda Fitzgerald
1973
Adam's Rib
as Amanda Bonner
1973
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1972
To Kill a Clown
as Lily Frischer
1972
1776
as Martha Jefferson
1972
Scarecrow
as Rachel Merton
1972
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
as Self and other assorted characters
1972
Columbo
as Janice Benedict
1971
Dr. Cook's Garden
as Janey Rausch
1970
George M!
as Agnes Nolan
1963
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
Small Potatoes
as Mimi
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
as Self
Pretty/Handsome
as Bunny