1. Blythe Katherine Danner was born on February 3,1943 and is an American actress.
28 Facts About Blythe Danner
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Blythe Danner played Dina Byrnes in Meet the Parents and its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.
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Blythe Danner has collaborated on several occasions with Woody Allen, appearing in three of his films: Another Woman, Alice, and Husbands and Wives.
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Blythe Danner is the sister of Harry Blythe Danner and the widow of Bruce Paltrow.
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Blythe Danner is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.
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Blythe Danner is the maternal grandmother of media personality Apple Martin.
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Blythe Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine and Harry Earl Blythe Danner, a bank executive.
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Blythe Danner has a brother, opera singer and actor Harry Danner, a sister and a maternal half-brother.
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Blythe Danner has Pennsylvania Dutch, some English and Irish ancestry; her maternal grandmother was a German immigrant, and one of her paternal great-grandmothers was born in Barbados to a family of European descent.
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Blythe Danner graduated from George School, a Quaker high school located near Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1960.
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Blythe Danner won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for portraying a free-spirited divorcee in Butterflies Are Free.
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In 1972, Blythe Danner portrayed Martha Jefferson in the film version of 1776.
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Blythe Danner's earliest starring film role was opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown.
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Blythe Danner played lawyer Amanda Bonner in television's Adam's Rib, opposite Ken Howard as Adam Bonner.
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Blythe Danner played Zelda Fitzgerald in F Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'.
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Blythe Danner was the eponymous heroine in the film Lovin' Molly.
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Blythe Danner appeared in Futureworld, playing Tracy Ballard with co-star Peter Fonda.
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Blythe Danner appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the 2000 comedy hit Meet the Parents, and its sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.
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In 2006, Blythe Danner was awarded an inaugural Katharine Hepburn Medal by Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center.
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In 2015, Blythe Danner was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Blythe Danner has been involved in environmental issues such as recycling and conservation for over 30 years.
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In 2011, Blythe Danner joined Moms Clean Air Force, to help call on parents to join in the fight against toxic air pollution.
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Blythe Danner has since appeared on morning talk shows and given interviews in such magazines as People.
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Blythe Danner has appeared in commercials for Prolia, a brand of denosumab used in the treatment of osteoporosis.
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Blythe Danner was married to producer and director Bruce Paltrow, who died of oral cancer in 2002.
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Blythe Danner's niece is the actress Katherine Moennig, the daughter of her maternal half-brother William.
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Blythe Danner co-starred with her daughter in the 1992 television film Cruel Doubt and again in the 2003 film Sylvia, in which she portrayed Aurelia Plath, mother to Gwyneth's title role of Sylvia Plath.
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Blythe Danner is a practitioner of transcendental meditation, which she has described as "very helpful and comforting".