Blythe Danner
Milestones
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Birthday: February 3, 1943
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2006
Co-starred in "The Last Kiss" directed by Tony Goldwyn and scripted by Paul Haggis
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2006
Earned an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for "Will & Grace"
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2004
Reprised her role as Dina Byrnes for the comedy sequel "Meet the Fockers"
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2004
Starred as Hank Azaria's mother in the Showtime drama "Huff"
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2004
Starred in the TV movie "Back When We Were Grownups" (CBS); received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Mini Series or TV movie
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2003
Portrayed Sylvia Plath's mother opposite her real life daughter Gwyneth Paltrow in "Sylvia"
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2002
Cast as Corinne Mulvaney in the Lifetime drama "We Were The Mulvaney's"
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2002
Cast as Dr. Harriet Lanning in the short-lived CBS medical drama "Presidio Med"
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2001
Cast as Phyllis in the all-star Broadway revival of "Follies", featuring Judith Ivey, Treat Williams and Gregory Harrison; received Tony nomination
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2001
Cast in the recurring role as Will's mother on the NBC comedy "Will & Grace"; earned an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress in 2005
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2001
Played the mother of Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster in "The Invisible Circus"
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2000
Appeared as Robert De Niro's wife in "Meet the Parents"
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1999
Co-starred with Edward Herrmann in a staged reading of A R Gurney's "Ancestral Voices"
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1999
Played Kate Capshaw's mother in "The Love Letter"
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1998
Co-starred in "Anne Tyler's 'Saint Maybe'" (CBS), a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" production
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1998
Had lead role in ill-fated revival of "The Deep Blue Sea"
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1998
Hosted "Sophisticated Ladies: Charleston and Savannah With Blythe Danner" (PBS)
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1998
Played a Janet Reno-like character in a cameo in "The X-Files"
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1998
Provided the voice of the title character, a crime-solving tiger cat in "Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery" (ABC)
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1998
Starred as a woman who accidentally killed her daughter in the taut drama "The Farmhouse"; screened at Gen Art Film Festival; aired on Sundance Channel in 1999
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1997
Cast as a Holocaust survivor in "A Call to Remember", aired on Starz! and Encore
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1997
Portrayed the matriarch of a troubled family in "The Myth of Fingerprints"; screened at Sundance; Roy Scheider co-starred as the family patriarch
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1997
Voiced Martha Jefferson in the PBS documentary "Thomas Jefferson", directed by Ken Burns
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1997
Was one of the museum employees taken hostage by a disgruntled former security guard (John Travolta) in "Mad City"
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1995
Appeared Off-Broadway in A R Gurney's stage comedy "Sylvia"
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1994
Had featured role in the CBS miniseries "Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All"
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1994
Portrayed Arkadina in Williamstown production of "The Seagull" with daughter Gwyneth Paltrow as Nina
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1992
Played Juliette Lewis' mother in Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives"
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1992
Played the victim of a an attempted murder who begins to suspect her son of the crime in the NBC miniseries "Cruel Doubt"; daughter Gwyneth Paltrow played her onscreen daughter
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1991
Acted alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in "Picnic" at Williamstown Theatre Festival
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1991
Gave a fine performance as Nick Nolte's wife in "The Prince of Tides"
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1990
Cast as the mother of a child molested by a priest in the HBO drama "Judgment"
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1990
Second film with Woody Allen, "Alice"
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1990
Supported Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in the Merchant Ivory production "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge"
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1988
Appeared in Woody Allen's "Another Woman"
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1988
Appeared opposite Kevin Kline in the New York Shakespeare Festival's summer production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in NYC's Central Park
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1988
Earned Tony nomination as Blanche Du Bois in a stage revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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1988
Played the co-owner of a NYC restaurant in the NBC drama "Tattinger's"; series was cancelled after a brief run and retooled as a sitcom called "Nick & Hillary" (NBC, 1989) which lasted only a handful of episodes
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1987
Co-starred with Richard Chamberlain and Judith Ivey in a revival of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit"; played Elvira
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1986
Played the matriarch of a Jewish family in the film version of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical "Brighton Beach Memoirs"; Judith Ivey co-starred as her sister
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1985
Offered nice turn as the wife of a philandering attorney (Anthony Hopkins) who was plotting to kill her in the three-character drama "Guilty Conscience" (CBS)
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1984
Cast as Annie Sullivan in the syndicated "Helen Keller -- The Miracle Continues"
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1984
Made guest appearance in an episode of "St. Elsewhere" (NBC)
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1982
Portrayed the wife of German architect Albert Speer in the ABC miniseries "Inside the Third Reich"
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1980
Returned to Broadway appearing alongside Raul Julia and Roy Scheider in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal"; earned Tony nomination
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1979
Delivered a strong turn as the devoted wife of a military officer in "The Great Santini"
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1979
With Michael Moriarty, starred in "Too Far to Go", adapted from short stories by John Updike; originally aired on NBC; briefly released theatrically
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1978
Earned critical praise as Eleanor Gehrig in the NBC biographical drama, "A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story"
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1977
Had lead in "The New York Idea", staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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1977
Portrayed Elizabeth Custer, the general's wife, in "The Court-Martial of General George Armstrong Custer" (ABC), a fictionalized speculation of what might have happened had Custer not died at Little Big Horn
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1976
Co-starred in the sequel "Futureworld"
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1976
Reteamed with Alan Alda in a memorable episode of "M*A*S*H*" (CBS)
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1975
Again paired with Langella in the Williamstown production of Tennessee Williams' "Eccentricities of a Nightingale"; production filmed and aired on "Theater in America"
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1975
Was leading lady to Jeff Bridges in the amiable comedy "Hearts of the West"
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1974
Began on-going association with the Williamstown Theatre Festival; appeared as Nina in Chekhov's "The Seagull"; production filmed and aired on public television's "Theater in America" series; co-stared with Frank Langella
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1974
Had leading role of a woman who comes betweeen two friends in "Lovin' Molly"
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1974
Portrayed Zelda to Richard Chamberlain's F Scott Fitzgerald in the ABC drama "F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'"
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1973
Starred as Amanda in the short-lived ABC sitcom, "Adam's Rib", opposite Ken Howard
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1972
Appeared on "Columbo" (NBC)
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1972
Film acting debut, "To Kill a Clown", co-starring Alan Alda
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1972
Made feature singing debut as Martha Jefferson in "1776", opposite Ken Howard
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1971
Played featured role in the ABC movie "Dr. Cook's Garden", starring Bing Crosby
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1970
Had supporting role in NBC production of the Broadway musical "George M!"
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1968
TV debut in "Day Tripper" episode of "N.Y.P.D" (ABC)
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1967
Spent part of the theater season acting with Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island
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1967
Was cast in first Broadway show, the musical "Mata Hari"; had featured role; show closed during out-of-town tryout
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1966
NYC debut in the Off-Broadway play "The Infantry"
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1965
Professional stage debut as Laura in "The Glass Menagerie"
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1965 to 1966
Spent one season as a member of the Theatre Company of Boston
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1961
Traveled to Berlin as a foreign exchange music student; was present when the Berlin Wall was erected
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Breakthrough stage role as the kooky, sexually liberated teenage divorcee Jill Tanner, who befriends her blind male neighbor, in "Butterflies Are Free"; received Tony Award
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Garnered attention for her performance in the Lincoln Center productions of "Summertree" (1968) and "The Miser" (1969)
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Raised in a community on Philadelphia's Main Line
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Sang soprano with a jazz group at Baggy Pants in Stowe, Vermont
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Starred in the Lincoln Center revival of "The Philadelphia Story"
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Starred opposite Jason Robards in Pinter's "Moonlight"