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

Filmography

• 2026Focker-in-Law — Dina Byrnes
• 2026Wildwood — (voice)
• 2023Happiness for Beginners — Gigi
• 2019Strange but True — Gail
• 2019The Chaperone — Mary O'Dell
• 2019The Tomorrow Man — Ronnie
• 2018Hearts Beat Loud — Marianne Fisher
• Patrick Melrose — Nancy Valance
• 2018The Mayo Clinic — (voice)
• 2018What They Had — Ruth
• American Gods — Demeter / Caroline Wells
• 2017Halfway There — Jeanne Ross
• 2017Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport — Narrator
• Will & Grace — Marilyn Truman
• 2016Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future — Aline Saarinen (voice)
• Madoff — Ruth Madoff
• 2016Tumbledown — Ellen Jespersen
• 2015I'll See You in My Dreams — Carol Petersen
• The Slap — Virginia
• 2014Murder of a Cat — Edie Moisey
• 2013Gilded Lilys — Caroline Lily
• 2012Hello I Must Be Going — Ruth
• 2012The Lucky One — Nana
• 2011Detachment — Ms. Perkins
• 2011Paul — Tara Walton
• Prohibition — Reader (voice)
• Up All Night — Angie Chafin
• 2011What's Your Number? — Ava Darling
• 2010Little Fockers — Dina Byrnes
• 2010Waiting for Forever — Miranda Twist
• 2009Beyond All Boundaries — Elsa Maxwell
• Nurse Jackie — Maureen Cooper
• 2009The Lightkeepers — Mrs. Bascom
• 2008Side by Each — Daisy/Delores/Delilah
• 2008The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 — Greta
• 2006The Last Kiss — Anna
• Medium — Louise Leaming
• 2004Back When We Were Grownups — Rebecca Holmes Davitch
• Huff — Isabelle Huffstodt
• 2004Meet the Fockers — Dina Byrnes
• 2003Sylvia — Aurelia Plath
• Working Shakespeare
• 2002Mark Twain — Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
• Mark Twain — Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
• Presidio Med — Harriet Lanning
• 2002We Were the Mulvaneys — Corinne Mulvaney
• 2001The Invisible Circus — Gail
• 2000Meet the Parents — Dina Byrnes
• 1999Forces of Nature — Virginia
• 1999The Love Letter — Lillian
• 1999Things I Forgot to Remember — Mrs. Bradford
• 1998Eye of the Storm — Irma
• From the Earth to the Moon — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery — Mrs. Murphy (voice)
• 1998No Looking Back — Claudia's Mom
• 1998Saint Maybe — Bee Bedloe
• 1998The Proposition — Syril Danning
• 1998The X-Files — Cassidy
• Will & Grace — Marilyn Truman
• 1997A Call to Remember — Paula Tobias
• 1997Mad City — Mrs. Banks
• 1997The Myth of Fingerprints — Lena
• Thomas Jefferson — Martha Jefferson (voice)
• 1995Homage — Katherine Samuel
• 1995To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar — Beatrice
• 1994Leave of Absence — Elisa
• 1994Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All — Bianca Honicut
• Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All — Bianca Honicut
• 1993Tracey Ullman Takes on New York — Eleanor Levine
• Cruel Doubt — Bonnie Von Stein
• 1992Getting Up and Going Home — Lily Montgomery
• 1992Husbands and Wives — Rain's mother
• 1992Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings — The Daughter
• 1992Lincoln — Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
• 1991Never Forget — Jane Mermelstein
• 1991The Prince of Tides — Sally Wingo
• 1990Alice — Dorothy
• 1990Judgment — Emmeline Guitry
• 1990Mr. & Mrs. Bridge — Grace Barron
• 1989Money, Power, Murder. — Jeannie
• Tales from the Crypt — Margaret
• 1988Another Woman — Lydia
• Tattingers
• 1987Elizabeth Bishop: One Art — Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
• 1986Brighton Beach Memoirs — Kate
• 1985Guilty Conscience — Louise Jamison
• 1984Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues — Anne Sullivan
• 1983In Defense of Kids — Ellen Wilcox
• 1983Man, Woman and Child — Sheila Beckwith
• Inside the Third Reich — Margarete Speer
• St. Elsewhere — Paige Gerradeaux
• 1979The Great Santini — Lillian Meechum
• 1979Too Far to Go — Joan Barlow Maple
• 1979You Can't Take it With You — Alice Sycamore
• 1978A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story — Eleanor Gehrig
• 1978Are You in the House Alone? — Anne Osborne
• 1977The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer — Elizabeth Custer
• 1976Futureworld — Tracy Ballard
• 1976The Eccentricities of a Nightingale — Alma Winemiller
• 1975Hearts of the West — Miss Trout
• 1975The Seagull — Nina
• 1974F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles — Zelda Fitzgerald
• 1974Lovin' Molly — Molly Taylor
• 1974Sidekicks — Prudy Jenkins
• Adam's Rib — Amanda Bonner
• 19721776 — Martha Jefferson
• M*A*S*H — Carlye
• 1972Scarecrow — Rachel Merton
• 1972To Kill a Clown — Lily Frischer
• Columbo — Janice Benedict
• 1971Dr. Cook's Garden — Janey Rausch
• Great Performances — Nina, Alma Winemiller, Self, Narrator
• 1970George M! — Agnes Nolan
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Elizabeth Custer, Bee Bedloe, Rebecca Holmes Davitch
• Pretty/Handsome — Bunny
• Small Potatoes — Mimi

Appearances as themselves (11)

• The Great War — Self (voice)
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Good Day Live — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• 1972To Be Young, Gifted and Black — Self and other assorted characters
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare — Self