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Blythe Danner

Television Actress / Film Actress / Stage Actress / Voice Actress / Environmentalist | * 02/03/1943 (81) | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America (USA))
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Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. Accolades she has received include two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff (2004–2006), and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress for her performance in Butterflies Are Free on Broadway (1969–1972). Danner was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Marilyn Truman on Will & Grace (2001–06; 2018–20), and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her roles in We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) and Back When We Were Grownups (2004). For the latter, she also received a Golden Globe Award nomination. Danner played Dina Byrnes in Meet the Parents (2000) and its sequels... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As G ...

Meet the Parents

12

2000 | 3.3/5 | 1h 48min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulnes ...

Paul

15

2011 | 3.4/5 | 1h 44min
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
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Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's ...

The Last Kiss

15

2006 | 3.0/5 | 1h 55min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two ...

I'll See You in My Dreams

12

2015 | 3.2/5 | 1h 32min
Drama, Comedy
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Awards & Nominations for Blythe Danner

Theatre World Award Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Lucy Award 2x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series 2x Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
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Movies with Blythe Danner as Actress(85)

as Gigi2023 Happiness for Beginners
as Mary O'Dell2019 The Chaperone
as Gail2019 Strange but True
as Ronnie2019 The Tomorrow Man
as Ruth2018 What They Had
as Marianne Fisher2018 Hearts Beat Loud
as Jeanne Ross2017 Halfway There
as Narrator2017 Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
as Self (voice)2017 The Great War (American Experience)
2016 Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
as Ellen Jespersen2015 Tumbledown
as Carol Petersen2015 I'll See You in My Dreams
as Edie Moisey2014 Murder of a Cat
as Nana2012 The Lucky One
as Ruth2012 Hello I Must Be Going
as Ms. Perkins2011 Detachment
as Tara Walton2011 Paul
as Ava Darling2011 What's Your Number?
as Dina Byrnes2010 Little Fockers
as Miranda Twist2010 Waiting for Forever
as Elsa Maxwell2009 Beyond All Boundaries
as Mrs. Bascom2009 The Lightkeepers
as Greta2008 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008 Side by Each
as Anna2006 The Last Kiss
as Dina Byrnes2004 Meet the Fockers
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch2004 Back When We Were Grownups
as Aurelia Plath2003 Sylvia
as Corinne Mulvaney2002 We Were the Mulvaneys
as Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)2002 Mark Twain
as Gail2001 The Invisible Circus
as Dina Byrnes2000 Meet the Parents
as Lillian MacFarquhar1999 The Love Letter
as Mrs. Bradford1999 Things I Forgot to Remember
as Virginia1999 Forces of Nature
as Bee Bedloe1998 Saint Maybe
as Mrs. Murphy (voice)1998 Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
as Cassidy1998 The X Files
as Claudia's Mom1998 No Looking Back
as Irma1998 Eye of the Storm
as Syril Danning1998 The Proposition
as Lena1997 The Myth of Fingerprints
as Paula Tobias1997 A Call to Remember
as Mrs. Banks1997 Mad City
as Mother Dingo (voice)1995 Napoleon
as Beatrice1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Katherine Samuel1995 Homage
as Bianca Honicut1994 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Elisa1994 Leave of Absence
as Eleanor Levine1993 Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
as Rain's mother1992 Husbands and Wives
as Lily Montgomery1992 Getting Up and Going Home
as Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)1992 Lincoln
as Sally Wingo1991 The Prince of Tides
as Jane Mermelstein1991 Never Forget
as Grace Barron1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
as Emmeline Guitry1990 Judgment
as Dorothy1990 Alice
as Jeannie1989 Money, Power, Murder.
as Lydia1988 Another Woman
as Kate1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs
1985 Guilty Conscience
as Anne Sullivan1984 Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
as Sheila Beckwith1983 Man, Woman and Child
as Ellen Wilcox1983 In Defense of Kids
as Margarete Speer1982 Inside the Third Reich
as Lillian Meechum1979 The Great Santini
as Joan Barlow Maple1979 Too Far to Go
as Alice Sycamore1979 You Can't Take it With You
as Anne Osborne1978 Are You in the House Alone?
as Eleanor Gehrig1978 A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
as Elisabeth Custer1977 The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Alma Winemiller1976 The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
as Tracy Ballard1976 Futureworld
as Nina1975 The Seagull
as Miss Trout1975 Hearts of the West
as Molly Taylor1974 Lovin' Molly
as Prudy Jenkins1974 Sidekicks
as Zelda Fitzgerald1974 F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
as Lily Frischer1972 To Kill A Clown
as Rachel Merton1972 The Scarecrow
as Martha Jefferson1972 1776
as Self and other assorted characters1972 To Be Young, Gifted and Black
as Janey Rausch1971 Dr. Cook's Garden
as Agnes Nolan Cohan1970 George M!

TV Shows/Series with Blythe Danner as Actress(32)

as Bunny2024 Pretty/Handsome
as Nancy Valance2018 Patrick Melrose
as Demeter2017 American Gods
as Demeter / Caroline Wells2017 American Gods
as Ruth Madoff2016 Madoff
as Reader (voice)2011 Prohibition
2011 Up All Night
as Louise Leaming2005 Medium
as Isabelle Huffstodt2004 Huff
as herself2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Dr. Harriet Lanning2002 Presidio Med
as herself2001 Good Day Live
as Marilyn Truman1998 Will & Grace
as Narrator1998 From the Earth to the Moon
as Martha Jefferson1997 Thomas Jefferson
as Bonnie Von Stein1992 Cruel Doubt
as Margaret1989 Tales from the Crypt
1988 Tattingers
1982 St. Elsewhere
as Self - Host / Various1975 Saturday Night Live
1973 Adam's Rib
as Carlye1972 M*A*S*H
as Janice Benedict1971 Columbo
as Nina1971 Great Performances
as Alma Winemiller1971 Great Performances
as herself1971 Great Performances
as Narrator1971 Great Performances
1959 The Bell Telephone Hour
as herself1952 Today
as Elizabeth Custer1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Bee Bedloe1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rebecca Holmes Davitch1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Full Name: Blythe Danner
Born: Wednesday, 02/03 1943 (February) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 81 years + 82 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Bard College, George School
Represented by: Don Buchwald & Associates
Spouses (current/former): Bruce Paltrow
Blythe Danner frequently works together with these people:
Andy Samberg (30x, Actor)
Bill Hader (21x, Actor)
Fred Armisen (18x, Actor)
Kristen Wiig (17x, Actress)
Tom Hanks (17x, Actor)
Will Forte (15x, Actor)
Kenan Thompson (15x, Actor)
Maurice Evans (12x, Actor)
Julie Harris (11x, Actress)
Amy Poehler (10x, Actress)
Paul Simon (9x, Actor)
Helen Robin (7x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:9024, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/23/2024