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Blythe Danner

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Blythe Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Katharine (Kile) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has German, as well as English and Irish, ancestry. Danner studied acting and got her degree from Bard College and began her career in Boston theater companies. By 25, she won the Theater World Award for her work in Molière's "The Miser", at Lincoln Center. She also won the 1970 Tony award for her role in "Butterflies Are Free". She made her film premiere in the same year in the television production of Dr. Cook's Garden (1971). For 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival. She has also been nominated for Tonys for performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Betrayal". Married to director Bruce Paltrow, she is the mother of two acting children, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Paltrow.
BornFebruary 3, 1943
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  • Won 2 Primetime Emmys

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Blythe Danner and Jason Sudeikis in Tumbledown (2015)
Blythe Danner, Rebecca Hall, Richard Masur, Matthew Delamater, and Claire Haley in Tumbledown (2015)
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Blythe Danner in M*A*S*H (1972)
Gwyneth Paltrow, Blythe Danner, and Daniel Craig in Sylvia (2003)
Gwyneth Paltrow, Blythe Danner, and Daniel Craig in Sylvia (2003)
Blythe Danner in The Last Kiss (2006)
Blythe Danner and Jacinda Barrett in The Last Kiss (2006)

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Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in Meet the Parents (2000)
Meet the Parents
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  • Dina Byrnes
  • 2000
Zach Braff in The Last Kiss (2006)
The Last Kiss
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  • Anna
  • 2006
Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Seth Rogen in Paul (2011)
Paul
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  • Tara Walton
  • 2011
Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, and Ben Stiller in Meet the Fockers (2004)
Meet the Fockers
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  • Dina Byrnes
  • 2004

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  • Crispin Glover, Demore Barnes, Emily Browning, Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Omid Abtahi, and Bruce Langley in American Gods (2017)
    American Gods
  • Sean Hayes, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, and Megan Mullally in Will & Grace (1998)
    Will & Grace
  • Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Nick Robinson, and Margaret Qualley in Strange But True (2019)
    Strange But True
  • Blythe Danner and John Lithgow in The Tomorrow Man (2019)
    The Tomorrow Man
  • Elizabeth McGovern and Haley Lu Richardson in The Chaperone (2018)
    The Chaperone
  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose (2018)
    Patrick Melrose
  • Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons in Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
    Hearts Beat Loud
  • Matthew Lillard and Blythe Danner in Halfway There (2018)
    Halfway There
  • Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, and Taissa Farmiga in What They Had (2018)
    What They Had
  • Naomi Watts in Gypsy (2017)
    Gypsy
  • American Masters (1985)
    American Masters
  • Odd Mom Out (2015)
    Odd Mom Out
  • Richard Dreyfuss in Madoff (2016)
    Madoff
  • Rebecca Hall and Jason Sudeikis in Tumbledown (2015)
    Tumbledown

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  • 1776 (1972)
    1776

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    • February 3, 1943
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Bruce PaltrowDecember 14, 1969 - October 3, 2002 (his death, 2 children)
    • Gwyneth Paltrow
    • Kate Moennig(Niece or Nephew)
  • Other works
    Stage: Appeared in "Butterflies Are Free" on Broadway. NOTE: She won a Tony Award..
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    The first actress to be nominated for 3 Emmy awards in the same year (2005).
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    [on the birth of Moses, her second grandchild] We love unusual names in the family.
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