Blythe Danner

Known for: Acting
Born: February 3, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Movies: 89

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

Upcoming Blythe Danner Movies

Focker-in-Law

2026

November 25, 2026

Best-Known Movies

6.7

Meet the Parents

2000

6.8

Paul

2011

6.3

Meet the Fockers

2004

7.2

The Lucky One

2012

5.7

Little Fockers

2010

6.5

What's Your Number?

2011

7.6

Detachment

2011

6.9

The X-Files

1998

7.5

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995

6.3

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

2008

Filmography

2026	Focker-in-Law	Dina Byrnes
2026	Wildwood	(voice)
2023	Happiness for Beginners	Gigi
2019	Strange but True	Gail
2019	The Tomorrow Man	Ronnie
2019	The Chaperone	Mary O'Dell
2018	What They Had	Ruth
2018	The Mayo Clinic	(voice)
2018	Hearts Beat Loud	Marianne Fisher
2017	Halfway There	Jeanne Ross
2017	Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport	Narrator
2016	Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future	Aline Saarinen (voice)
2016	Tumbledown	Ellen Jespersen
2015	I'll See You in My Dreams	Carol Petersen
2014	Murder of a Cat	Edie Moisey
2013	Gilded Lilys	Caroline Lily
2012	Hello I Must Be Going	Ruth
2012	The Lucky One	Nana
2011	What's Your Number?	Ava Darling
2011	Detachment	Ms. Perkins
2011	Paul	Tara Walton
2010	Little Fockers	Dina Byrnes
2010	Waiting for Forever	Miranda Twist
2009	The Lightkeepers	Mrs. Bascom
2009	Beyond All Boundaries	Elsa Maxwell
2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2	Greta
2008	Side by Each	Daisy/Delores/Delilah
2008	Pretty/Handsome	Bunny Fitzpayne
2006	The Last Kiss	Anna
2004	Meet the Fockers	Dina Byrnes
2004	Back When We Were Grownups	Rebecca Holmes Davitch
2003	Sylvia	Aurelia Plath
2002	We Were the Mulvaneys	Corinne Mulvaney
2002	Mark Twain	Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
2001	The Invisible Circus	Gail
2000	Meet the Parents	Dina Byrnes
1999	Things I Forgot to Remember	Mrs. Bradford
1999	The Love Letter	Lillian
1999	Forces of Nature	Virginia
1998	Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery	Mrs. Murphy (voice)
1998	Saint Maybe	Bee Bedloe
1998	The X-Files	Cassidy
1998	No Looking Back	Claudia's Mom
1998	The Proposition	Syril Danning
1998	Eye of the Storm	Irma
1997	Mad City	Mrs. Banks
1997	The Myth of Fingerprints	Lena
1997	A Call to Remember	Paula Tobias
1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Beatrice
1995	Homage	Katherine Samuel
1994	Leave of Absence	Elisa
1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Bianca Honicut
1993	Tracey Ullman Takes on New York	Eleanor Levine
1992	Lincoln	Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
1992	Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings	The Daughter
1992	Husbands and Wives	Rain's mother
1992	Getting Up and Going Home	Lily Montgomery
1991	The Prince of Tides	Sally Wingo
1991	Never Forget	Jane Mermelstein
1990	Alice	Dorothy
1990	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	Grace Barron
1990	Judgment	Emmeline Guitry
1989	Money, Power, Murder.	Jeannie
1988	Another Woman	Lydia
1987	Elizabeth Bishop: One Art	Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
1986	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Kate
1985	Guilty Conscience	Louise Jamison
1984	Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues	Anne Sullivan
1983	In Defense of Kids	Ellen Wilcox
1983	Man, Woman and Child	Sheila Beckwith
1979	The Great Santini	Lillian Meechum
1979	You Can't Take it With You	Alice Sycamore
1979	Too Far to Go	Joan Barlow Maple
1978	Are You in the House Alone?	Anne Osborne
1978	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story	Eleanor Gehrig
1977	The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer	Elizabeth Custer
1976	Futureworld	Tracy Ballard
1976	The Eccentricities of a Nightingale	Alma Winemiller
1975	Hearts of the West	Miss Trout
1975	The Seagull	Nina
1974	Lovin' Molly	Molly Taylor
1974	Sidekicks	Prudy Jenkins
1974	F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles	Zelda Fitzgerald
1972	1776	Martha Jefferson
1972	To Kill a Clown	Lily Frischer
1972	To Be Young, Gifted and Black	Self and other assorted characters
1972	Scarecrow	Rachel Merton
1971	Dr. Cook's Garden	Janey Rausch
1970	George M!	Agnes Nolan

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