Blythe Danner

Biography

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

Career Overview

Blythe Danner has 110 screen credits in a career dating back to 1952. Their work spans 6 cinematic universes — most prominently Meet the Parents with 4 titles. Signature works include The Lucky One, Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

female

Known Credits

110

Birth Date

1943-02-03 00:00:00

Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For

• 

  The Lucky One
• 

  Meet the Fockers
• 

  Meet the Parents
• 

  Focker-In-Law
• 

  I'll See You in My Dreams
• 

  Paul

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 6 universes

• Meet the Parents (4 titles)
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1 titles)
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Collection (1 titles)
• The X Files Collection (1 titles)
• Eugene Trilogy (1 titles)
• Westworld Films (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Robert De Niro (6 collaborations)
• Jay Roach (5 collaborations)
• John Hamburg (5 collaborations)
• Brett Haley (5 collaborations)
• Bruno Coon (4 collaborations)
• Jon Poll (4 collaborations)
• Ben Stiller (4 collaborations)
• Jane Rosenthal (3 collaborations)
• Nancy Tenenbaum (3 collaborations)
• Greg Glienna (3 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (110 credits)

  • Focker-In-Law

    Dina Byrnes

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Wildwood

    (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Small Potatoes

    Mimi

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Happiness for Beginners

    Gigi

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Strange but True

    Gail

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • The Tomorrow Man

    Ronnie

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • The Chaperone

    Mary O'Dell

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • What They Had

    Ruth

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • The Mayo Clinic

    (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Hearts Beat Loud

    Marianne Fisher

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Patrick Melrose

    - At Last (2018) ... Nancy Valance actor actors

    - Mother's Milk (2018) ... Nancy Valance actor actors
    2018
  • Halfway There

    Jeanne Ross

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • The Great War

    Self (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Will & Grace

    - Of Mouse and Men (2020) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - Bad Blood (2019) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - So Long Division (2018) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - It's a Family Affair (2018) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors
    2017
  • American Gods

    - Conscience of the King (2021) ... Demeter / Caroline Wells actor actors

    - Sister Rising (2021) ... Demeter / Caroline Wells actor actors

    - Ashes and Demons (2021) ... Demeter actor actors
    2017
  • Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future

    Aline Saarinen (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Tumbledown

    Ellen Jespersen

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • I'll See You in My Dreams

    Carol Petersen

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Murder of a Cat

    Edie Moisey

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Gilded Lilys

    Caroline Lily

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Hello I Must Be Going

    Ruth

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • The Lucky One

    Nana

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Prohibition

    Reader (voice)

    actor

    actors

    - A Nation of Hypocrites (2011) ... Reader (voice) actor actors

    - A Nation of Scofflaws (2011) ... Reader (voice) actor actors

    - A Nation of Drunkards (2011) ... Reader (voice) actor actors
    2011
  • What's Your Number?

    Ava Darling

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Detachment

    Ms. Perkins

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Paul

    Tara Walton

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Little Fockers

    Dina Byrnes

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Waiting for Forever

    Miranda Twist

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Beyond All Boundaries

    Elsa Maxwell

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Nurse Jackie

    - Tiny Bubbles (2009) ... Maureen Cooper actor actors
    2009
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

    Greta

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Side by Each

    Daisy/Delores/Delilah

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • The Last Kiss

    Anna

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Medium

    - A Taste of Her Own Medicine (2009) ... Louise Leaming actor actors
    2005
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

    - Blythe Danner / Stewart Francis (2005) ... Self actor actors
    2005
  • Meet the Fockers

    Dina Byrnes

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Back When We Were Grownups

    Rebecca Holmes Davitch

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Sylvia

    Aurelia Plath

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    - Felicity Huffman, Megan Mullally (2005) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • We Were the Mulvaneys

    Corinne Mulvaney

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Mark Twain

    Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • The Invisible Circus

    Gail

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Good Day Live

    - Blythe Danner (2004) ... Self actor actors
    2001
  • Meet the Parents

    Dina Byrnes

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Things I Forgot to Remember

    Mrs. Bradford

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Forces of Nature

    Virginia

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

    Mrs. Murphy (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Saint Maybe

    Bee Bedloe

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • The X-Files

    Cassidy

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • No Looking Back

    Claudia's Mom

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • The Proposition

    Syril Danning

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Eye of the Storm

    Irma

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Will & Grace

    - The Mourning Son (2006) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - Blanket Apology (2006) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - A Little Christmas Queer (2005) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - From Queer To Eternity (2005) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors

    - Christmas Break (2004) ... Marilyn Truman actor actors
    1998
  • From the Earth to the Moon

    - Le Voyage dans la Lune (1998) ... Narrator (voice) actor actors
    1998
  • Mad City

    Mrs. Banks

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • The Myth of Fingerprints

    Lena

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • A Call to Remember

    Paula Tobias

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

    Beatrice

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Napoleon

    Mother Dingo (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Homage

    Katherine Samuel

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Leave of Absence

    Elisa

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

    Bianca Honicut

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Tracey Ullman Takes on New York

    Eleanor Levine

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Intimate Portrait

    - Mia Farrow (1999) ... Self - Narrator (voice) actor actors
    1993
  • Lincoln

    Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

    The Daughter

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Husbands and Wives

    Rain's mother

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Getting Up and Going Home

    Lily Montgomery

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The Prince of Tides

    Sally Wingo

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Never Forget

    Jane Mermelstein

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Alice

    Dorothy

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

    Grace Barron

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Judgment

    Emmeline Guitry

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Money, Power, Murder.

    Jeannie

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Tales from the Crypt

    - Maniac At Large (1992) ... Margaret actor actors
    1989
  • Another Woman

    Lydia

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

    Voice of Elizabeth Bishop

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Kate

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Guilty Conscience

    Louise Jamison

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

    Anne Sullivan

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • In Defense of Kids

    Ellen Wilcox

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Man, Woman and Child

    Sheila Beckwith

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • St. Elsewhere

    - The Women (1984) ... Paige Gerradeaux actor actors
    1982
  • The Great Santini

    Lillian Meechum

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • You Can't Take it With You

    Alice Sycamore

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Too Far to Go

    Joan Barlow Maple

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Are You in the House Alone?

    Anne Osborne

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

    Eleanor Gehrig

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

    Elizabeth Custer

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Futureworld

    Tracy Ballard

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    Alma Winemiller

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Hearts of the West

    Miss Trout

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • The Seagull

    Nina

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Saturday Night Live

    - Blythe Danner/Rickie Lee Jones (1982) ... Self - Host actor actors
    1975
  • Lovin' Molly

    Molly Taylor

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Sidekicks

    Prudy Jenkins

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

    Zelda Fitzgerald

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • 1776

    Martha Jefferson

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • To Kill a Clown

    Lily Frischer

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • To Be Young, Gifted and Black

    Self and other assorted characters

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Scarecrow

    Rachel Merton

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • M*A*S*H

    - The More I See You (1976) ... Carlye actor actors
    1972
  • Dr. Cook's Garden

    Janey Rausch

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Great Performances

    - Episode 10 (1993) ... Narrator actor actors

    - Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration (1982) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 6 (1976) ... Alma Winemiller actor actors

    - The Seagull (1975) ... Nina actor actors
    1971
  • Columbo

    - Étude in Black (1972) ... Janice Benedict actor actors
    1971
  • George M!

    Agnes Nolan

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Today

    - Tony Bennett, Ellen Degeneres, Blythe Danner (2006) ... Self actor actors
    1952
  • Golden Globe Awards

    - The 65th Golden Globe Awards (2008) ... Self - Nominee actor actors
    1944