Blythe Danner

Producer, Actor

Birthdate: Feb 3, 1943

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Blythe Danner Movies

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Upcoming (2)

2026 |
Focker In-Law
Focker In-Law
2026
PG-13
Comedy
A young man named Henry, son of Greg and Pam Focker, faces family chaos when he decides to marry a strong-willed woman who appears to be his complete mismatch.
asDina Byrnes
2026 |
Wildwood
Wildwood
2026
Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
The adventures of Prue McKeel as she sets off to the forests outside Portland to find her kidnapped brother.

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Previous (13)

2022 |
Alice
Alice
2022
R
1h 40m
Crime, Drama, Thriller
5.6
A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
asDorothy Smith
2019 |
The Tomorrow Man
The Tomorrow Man
2019
PG-13
1h 34m
Drama, Romance
5.9
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love.
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asRonnie
2019 |
The Chaperone
The Chaperone
2019
TV-14
1h 48m
Drama
6.6
In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
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asMary O'Dell
2018 |
What They Had
What They Had
2018
R
1h 41m
Drama
6.7
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
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asRuth
2018 |
Hearts Beat Loud
Hearts Beat Loud
2018
PG-13
1h 37m
Comedy, Drama, Music
6.9
A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
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asMarianne Fisher
2016 |
Tumbledown
Tumbledown
2016
R
1h 45m
Comedy, Music, Romance
6.2
A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.
asLinda
2012 |
The Lucky One
The Lucky One
2012
PG-13
1h 41m
Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
6.4
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
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asEllie
2005 |
Howl’s Moving Castle
Howl’s Moving Castle
2005
1h 59m
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
8.2
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
asMadame Suliman
2004 |
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Fockers
2004
PG-13
1h 55m
Comedy, Romance
6.4
All hell breaks loose when the Byrnes family meets the Focker family for the first time.
asDina Byrnes
2003 |
Sylvia
Sylvia
2003
R
1h 40m
Biography, Drama, Romance
6.3
Story of the relationship between poets Edward James "Ted" Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
asAurelia Plath
2000 |
Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents
2000
PG-13
1h 48m
Comedy, Romance
7
Chicago male nurse and chronic under-achiever Greg Focker meets his charming teacher girlfriend Pam Byrnes' parents Jack and Dina before proposing, but suspicious Jack is an overprotective former CIA agent - every date's worst nightmare.
asDina Byrnes
1995 |
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
PG-13
1h 49m
Comedy, Drama
6.8
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
asBeatrice
1972 |
1776
1776
1972
PG
2h 21m
Drama, Family, History, Musical
7.6
A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.
asMartha Jefferson