Blythe Danner

Highest Rated: 94% The Great Santini (1979)

Lowest Rated: 5% Waiting for Forever (2011)

Birthday: Feb 3, 1943

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

American actress Blythe Danner brings a kind of classy elegance to her work that betrays her real-life background: the daughter of a Philadelphia bank executive, she enjoyed an expensive prep school education and undergraduate study at Bard College. Her earliest theatrical work was with the Theater Company of Boston and the Trinity Square Playhouse of Boston; by the time she was 25, Danner had won the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Lincoln Center Rep's production of The Miser. In 1970, she earned a Tony for her performance in Butterflies are Free; based on the true story of a blind attorney, Danner played the central character's free-spirit love interest. Given the tenor of '70s newspaper publicity, Danner was featured in several magazine and newspaper photo spreads because she spent much of Butterflies' first act clad in nothing but her underwear. Subsequently, the actress was frequently cast opposite fellow up-and-comer Ken Howard, notably in the short-lived 1973 TV sitcom Adam's Rib. She worked so well with Howard that many fans assumed that the two were married; in fact, Danner's longtime husband is Broadway and TV producer Bruce Paltrow.A "critic's darling" thanks to her husky voice and pleasantly mannered acting style, Danner has worked with distinction in TV and on stage, though her film roles have tended to be few and far between. She was memorable as Robert Duvall's long-suffering wife in The Great Santini (1980) and as Nick Nolte's wife in The Prince of Tides (1991), while in 1986's Brighton Beach Memoirs, the decidedly WASPish Danner surprised fans by portraying a middle-aged Jewish woman. Danner's film appearances became more frequent during the latter half of the '90s: she did starring work in such films as To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The X-Files (1998), and The Love Letter (1999). A memorable turn opposite Robert DeNiro in the 2000 comedy found the established dramatic actress reaching the apex of a particularly impressive comedy run, and a year after reprising her role in the 2004 sequel Meet the Fockers, Danner would make showbiz history by earning a record three Emmy nominations for her roles in Huff, Will and Grace, and Back when We Were Grownups. When the smoke cleared and all of the winners had been announced, Danner did ineed come out on top when she took home the "Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" award for Huff, with nominations for both Huff and Will and Grace at the following year's ceremony offering telling testament as to just how strong her work truly was. In 2006 Danner could be seen performing opposite Zack Braff in the romantic comedy drama remake The Last Kiss. She continued to work steadily, often in comedies such as Paul, Little Fockers, and What's Your Number, and she starred in the 2012 drama The Lucky One.Frequently seen in TV guest roles (she managed to make her Mrs. Albert Speer in 1982's Inside the Third Reich sympathetic, no mean feat), Danner could be seen on television on a regular basis in the brief 1989 series Tattingers, produced by her husband. In 1992, she did stellar work in the made-for-TV movie Cruel Doubt, in which she played the matriarch of a broken family. Her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow was also featured in the movie.

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Movies

		Credit
57%	Strange But True	Actor	—	2019
42%	The Tomorrow Man	Ronnie	—	2019
44%	The Chaperone	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	O Acompanhante	Actor	—	2019
88%	What They Had	Ruth	—	2018
91%	Hearts Beat Loud	Marianne Fisher	—	2018
No Score Yet	The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science	Actor	—	2018
70%	Tumbledown	Ellen	—	2016
93%	I'll See You in My Dreams	Carol Petersen	—	2015
No Score Yet	Mia, a Dancer's Journey	Mia Slavenska	—	2015
27%	Murder of a Cat	Edie	—	2014
75%	Hello I Must Be Going	Ruth	$84.3K	2012
21%	The Lucky One	Ellie	$60.5M	2012
57%	Detachment	Ms. Perkins	$49.4K	2012
No Score Yet	Mark Twain	Actor	—	2012
24%	What's Your Number?	Ava Darling	$14.1M	2011
70%	Paul	Tara Walton	$37.4M	2011
5%	Waiting for Forever	Miranda	$16.8K	2011
No Score Yet	What's Your Number Ex-Tended Edition	Actor	—	2011
9%	Little Fockers	Dina Byrnes	$148.4M	2010
20%	The Lightkeepers	Emeline Bascom	—	2010
No Score Yet	Harp Dreams	Narrator	—	2010
65%	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2	Greta	$44.1M	2008
46%	The Last Kiss	Anna	$11.6M	2006
67%	Stolen	Narrator	—	2006
40%	Three Days of Rain	Beverly	—	2005
39%	Meet the Fockers	Dina Byrnes	$279.2M	2004
No Score Yet	Back When We Were Grownups	Rebecca Davitch	—	2004
37%	Sylvia	Aurelia Plath	$1.3M	2003
No Score Yet	We Were the Mulvaneys	Corinne Mulvaney	—	2002
No Score Yet	The Tomorrow Man	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Echoes from the White House	Actor	—	2001
21%	The Invisible Circus	Gail	—	2001
84%	Meet the Parents	Dina Byrnes	$164.5M	2000
33%	The Love Letter	Lillian	—	1999
45%	Forces of Nature	Virginia	—	1999
No Score Yet	Saint Maybe	Bee Bedloe	—	1998
65%	The X-Files - Fight the Future	Jana Cassidy	—	1998
11%	The Proposition	Syril Danning	—	1998
36%	No Looking Back	Claudia's Mother	—	1998
No Score Yet	Eye of the Storm	Irma Miller	—	1998
No Score Yet	Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Farmhouse	Actor	—	1998
36%	Mad City	Mrs. Banks	—	1997
60%	The Myth of Fingerprints	Lena	—	1997
No Score Yet	A Call To Remember	Paula Tobias	—	1997
No Score Yet	Homage	Katherine Samuel	—	1996
41%	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Beatrice	—	1995
No Score Yet	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Bianca	—	1994
93%	Husbands and Wives	Rain's Mother	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865	Elizabeth Todd Edwards	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864	Elizabeth Todd Edwards	—	1992
No Score Yet	Cruel Doubt	Bonnie Von Stein	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863	Elizabeth Todd Edwards	—	1992
No Score Yet	Getting Up and Going Home	Lily	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862	Elizabeth Todd Edwards	—	1992
68%	The Prince of Tides	Sallie	—	1991
No Score Yet	Never Forget	Jane Mermelstein	—	1991
75%	Alice	Dorothy	—	1990
80%	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	Grace	—	1990
No Score Yet	Judgment	Emmeline Guitry	—	1990
64%	Another Woman	Lydia	—	1988
69%	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Kate	—	1986
No Score Yet	Guilty Conscience	Louise Jamison	—	1985
No Score Yet	Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues	Anne Sullivan	—	1984
No Score Yet	In Defense of Kids	Actor	—	1983
No Score Yet	Man, Woman and Child	Sheila Beckwith	—	1983
No Score Yet	Inside the Third Reich	Margarete	—	1982
No Score Yet	To Be Young, Gifted & Black	Actor	—	1981
94%	The Great Santini	Lillian Meechum	—	1979
No Score Yet	Too Far to Go	Joan Barlow Maple	—	1979
No Score Yet	Are You in the House Alone?	Anne Osborne	—	1978
No Score Yet	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story	Eleanor Gehrig	—	1978
33%	Futureworld	Tracy Ballard	—	1976
No Score Yet	Anton Chekhov's The Seagull	Actor	—	1975
86%	Hearts Of The West (Hollywood Cowboy)	Miss Trout	—	1975
No Score Yet	Lovin' Molly	Molly Taylor	—	1974
No Score Yet	Sidekicks	Prudy Jenkins	—	1974
No Score Yet	The Last of the Belles	Actor	—	1974
No Score Yet	F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'	Zelda Fitzgerald	—	1974
No Score Yet	Columbo: Étude in Black	Actor	—	1972
No Score Yet	Scarecrow	Actor	—	1972
69%	1776	Martha Jefferson	—	1972
No Score Yet	To Kill a Clown	Lily Frischer	—	1972
No Score Yet	Eccentricities of a Nightingale	Alma Winemiller	—	1966

TV

		Credit
90%	Patrick Melrose 2018	Nancy	2018
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host Guest	2018 1982
No Score Yet	American Experience 1988	Voice	2017
No Score Yet	American Masters 2001	Voice	2016
68%	Madoff 2016	Ruth Madoff	2016
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Odd Mom Out 2015-2017	Sarah Kaplan	2016 2015
No Score Yet	Tavis Smiley 2013-2018	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	The Chew 2011-2018	Guest	2012
71%	Up All Night 2011-2013	Angie Chafin	2012 2011
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2010 2009
No Score Yet	Medium 2005-2011		2009
81%	Nurse Jackie 2009-2015		2009
No Score Yet	Independent Lens 1999	Voice	2007
67%	Huff 2006	Izzy	2006 2005 2004
No Score Yet	Will & Grace 1998	Marilyn Truman	2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
23%	Presidio Med 2002-2003	Harriet Lanning	2003 2002
82%	Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996	Guest	1992
No Score Yet	St. Elsewhere 1982-1988		1984
No Score Yet	MAS*H 1972-1983	Carlye	1976
No Score Yet	Columbo 1968-2003	Janice	1972
No Score Yet	Prohibition 2011	Voice

QUOTES FROM Blythe Danner CHARACTERS

Anna says: If I died, what would you do?

Stephen says: Press my dark suit.

Beth says: "you don't even know him!"

Beth says: You don't even know him!

Ellie says: "you don't neither."

Ellie says: You don't neither.

Beth says: "How did you get him to leave?"

Beth says: How did you get him to leave?

Ellie says: "I gave him the job."

Ellie says: I gave him the job.

Beth says: :o

Ellie says: Start appreciating the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

Ellie says: Well, that's as clean as they'll ever be

Ellie says: Well, that's as clean as they'll ever be.

Martha Jefferson says: Dickinson wants "tyrant" removed from the Declaration

Martha Jefferson says: Dickinson wants 'tyrant' removed from the Declaration

Thomas Jefferson says: Just a moment, Mr. Thomson. I do not consent. The king is a tyrant whether we say so or not. We might as well say so.

Secretary Charles Thomson says: But I already scratched it out.

Thomas Jefferson says: Then scratch it back in!

John Hancock says: Put it back, Mr. Thomson. The King will remain a tyrant.

Martha Jefferson says: [Adams and Frankline wait expectantly on the street below Jefferson's apartment]

John Adams says: [reading a note tossed down from Jefferson] "Dear Mr. Adams, I am taking my wife back to bed. Kindly go away. Your obedient, T. Jefferson." Incredible!

John Adams says: [reading a note tossed down from Jefferson] 'Dear Mr. Adams, I am taking my wife back to bed. Kindly go away. Your obedient, T. Jefferson.' Incredible!

Benjamin Franklin says: [chuckles] You know, perhaps I should have written the Declaration. At my age there's little doubt that the pen is mightier than the sword.