| Blythe Danner  Born: 3-Feb-1943
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Futureworld A child of wealthy parents, Blythe Danner enjoyed a prep school education, and spent a year in Berlin as a foreign exchange student. She was there as the Berlin Wall was constructed. She considered becoming a nurse, but couldn't stand the sight of blood. Instead she studied drama at Bard College, then performed in repertory with the Theater Company of Boston. She won a Tony playing a teenaged divorcee in Butterflies Are Free in 1970, and has been nominated three times since.
In movies, her best reviews came for two adaptations of novels by Pat Conroy, The Great Santini (as Robert Duvall's long-suffering wife) and The Prince of Tides (as Nick Nolte's long-suffering wife). Her biggest box office success came in Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, as Robert De Niro's long-suffering wife. She also had memorable roles in Merchant-Ivory's Mr. and Mrs. Bridge with Paul Newman, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Woody Allen's Another Woman, Alice. and Husbands and Wives. For sheer camp, little could top Danner's performance in Futureworld, opposite Peter Fonda but dreaming of Yul Brynner.
Her TV series include Adam's Rib (in the Katharine Hepburn role), Tattingers with Stephen Collins, and Presidio Med with Dana Delany. She is currently playing Hank Azaria's screwball mother on the Showtime series Huff.
Father: (bank executive)
Mother: Katherine Danner (housewife)
Brother: Harry Danner (opera singer-actor)
Brother: William Moennig (violin maker)
Boyfriend: Chevy Chase (actor-comedian, dated in mid-1960s)
Husband: Bruce Paltrow (TV director, b. 26-Nov-1943, d. 3-Oct-2002 throat cancer)
Daughter: Gwyneth Paltrow (actress)
Son: Jake Paltrow (TV director, b. 26-Sep-1975)
High School: The George School, Bucks County, PA (1961)
University: BA Theater, Bard College (1965)
EMILY's List
Environmental Media Association Board of Directors
Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee
Hollywood Women's Political Committee
John Kerry for President
National Leadership PAC
Tony 1970 Best Actress, for Butterflies Are Free
TELEVISION
Presidio Med Dr. Harriet Lanning (2002-03)
Huff Izzy Huffstodt (2004-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
What's Your Number? (29-Sep-2011)
Detachment (25-Apr-2011)
Paul (14-Feb-2011)
Little Fockers (22-Dec-2010) · Dina Byrnes
Waiting for Forever (10-Feb-2010) · Miranda
The Lightkeepers (18-Dec-2009)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (6-Aug-2008)
The Last Kiss (10-Sep-2006)
Meet the Fockers (16-Dec-2004)
Sylvia (17-Oct-2003)
Three Days of Rain (May-2002)
We Were the Mulvaneys (8-Apr-2002)
The Invisible Circus (26-Jan-2001)
Meet the Parents (6-Oct-2000) · Dina Byrnes
The Love Letter (21-May-1999)
Forces of Nature (12-Mar-1999) · Virginia
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (13-Dec-1998) [VOICE]
The X Files (19-Jun-1998)
No Looking Back (27-Mar-1998) · Claudia's Mom
The Proposition (27-Mar-1998) · Syril Danning
Mad City (10-Oct-1997)
The Myth of Fingerprints (6-Sep-1997)
A Call to Remember (30-Aug-1997)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (8-Sep-1995) · Beatrice
Homage (Jan-1995)
Leave of Absence (11-May-1994)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1-May-1994)
Husbands and Wives (14-Sep-1992)
Cruel Doubt (17-May-1992)
The Prince of Tides (25-Dec-1991)
Alice (25-Dec-1990) · Dorothy
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (23-Nov-1990)
Judgment (13-Oct-1990)
Another Woman (18-Nov-1988)
Brighton Beach Memoirs (25-Dec-1986) · Kate
Guilty Conscience (1985) · Louise Jamison
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (23-Apr-1984)
Man, Woman and Child (18-Nov-1983)
Inside the Third Reich (9-May-1982)
The Great Santini (26-Oct-1979)
Too Far to Go (12-Mar-1979)
Are You in the House Alone? (20-Sep-1978) · Anne Osborne
Futureworld (13-Aug-1976)
Hearts of the West (4-Oct-1975)
Lovin' Molly (14-Apr-1974) · Molly Taylor
F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Last of the Belles" (7-Jan-1974)
1776 (9-Nov-1972)
To Kill a Clown (23-Aug-1972) · Lily Frischer
The Scarecrow (10-Jan-1972)
Dr. Cook's Garden (19-Jan-1971)
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