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Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff (2004–2006), and a Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in Butterflies Are Free on Broadway (1969–1972). Danner was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Marilyn Truman on Will & Grace, and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her roles in We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) and Back When We Were Grownups (2004). For the latter, she also received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Birth Name
Blythe Katharine Danner
Born
Wednesday, 03 February 1943
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Happiness for Beginners | Gigi | 2023 |
| Ridley Jones | Grandma Jones | 2021 |
| Hollywood's Stories | Self | 2019 |
| Strange But True | Gail | 2019 |
| The Tomorrow Man | Ronnie | 2019 |
| The Chaperone | Mary O'Dell | 2019 |
| What They Had | Ruth | 2018 |
| Hearts Beat Loud | Marianne Fisher | 2018 |
| Patrick Melrose | Nancy Valance | 2018 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Happiness for Beginners | Gigi | 2023 |
| Ridley Jones | Grandma Jones | 2021 |
| Hollywood's Stories | Self | 2019 |
| Strange But True | Gail | 2019 |
| The Tomorrow Man | Ronnie | 2019 |
| The Chaperone | Mary O'Dell | 2019 |
| What They Had | Ruth | 2018 |
| Hearts Beat Loud | Marianne Fisher | 2018 |
| Patrick Melrose | Nancy Valance | 2018 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Kevyn Aucoin: Beauty & the Beast in Me | Self | 2018 |
| Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport | Narrator | 2017 |
| Will & Grace | Marilyn Truman | 2017 |
| Gypsy | Nancy | 2017 |
| American Gods | Demeter | 2017 |
| Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future | Aline Saarinen | 2016 |
| Tumbledown | Linda / Ellen Jespersen | 2016 |
| Madoff | Ruth Madoff | 2016 |
| Odd Mom Out | Jill's Mom | 2015 |
| I'll See You in My Dreams | Carol Petersen | 2015 |
| The Slap | Virginia | 2015 |
| Murder of a Cat | Edie Moisey / Edie | 2014 |
| The Meredith Vieira Show | Self | 2014 |
| Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
| The Broadway.com Show | Self | 2013 |
| Home & Family | Self | 2012 |
| Katie | Self - Guest | 2012 |
| Hello I Must Be Going | Ruth / Ruth Minsky | 2012 |
| The Lucky One | Ellie / Nana | 2012 |
| CBS This Morning | Self - Guest | 2012 |
| Prohibition | Reader (voice) / Reader | 2011 |
| What's Your Number? | Ava Darling | 2011 |
| Up All Night | Dr. Angie Chafin | 2011 |
| Detachment | Ms. Perkins | 2011 |
| Paul | Tara Walton | 2011 |
| Little Fockers | Dina Byrnes | 2010 |
| The Lightkeepers | Mrs. Bascom | 2010 |
| Waiting for Forever | Miranda Twist | 2010 |
| Talk Stoop | Self | 2009 |
| Nurse Jackie | Maureen Cooper | 2009 |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Herself | 2009 |
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | Greta | 2008 |
| Pretty/Handsome | Bunny Fitzpayne | 2008 |
| Side by Each | Daisy / Delores / Delilah | 2008 |
| The Last Kiss | Anna | 2006 |
| Stolen | Isabella Stewart Gardner | 2006 |
| Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| Medium | Louise Leaming | 2005 |
| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self - Guest | 2005 |
| Meet the Fockers | Dina Byrnes | 2004 |
| Back When We Were Grownups | Rebecca Holmes Davitch | 2004 |
| Huff | Isabelle Huffstodt / Isabelle 'Izzy' Huffstodt | 2004 |
| Howl's Moving Castle | Madame Suliman | 2004 |
| Sylvia | Aurelia Plath | 2003 |
| Freedom: A History of US | Emma Lazarus / Appleton's Journal | 2003 |
| The Quality of Light | Mary | 2003 |
| Presidio Med | Dr. Harriet Lanning | 2002 |
| Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life | Narrator | 2002 |
| The 56th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 2002 |
| Three Days of Rain | Woman In Cab | 2002 |
| We Were the Mulvaneys | Corinne Mulvaney | 2002 |
| Mark Twain | Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice) / Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens | 2002 |
| Echoes from the White House | 2001 | |
| The Invisible Circus | Gail | 2001 |
| Meet the Parents | Dina Byrnes | 2000 |
| Independent Lens | Isabella Stewart Gardner | 1999 |
| Things I Forgot to Remember | Mrs. Bradford | 1999 |
| The Love Letter | Lillian MacFarquhar | 1999 |
| The 71st Annual Academy Awards | Self - Audience Member | 1999 |
| Forces of Nature | Virginia | 1999 |
| Saint Maybe | Bee Bedloe | 1998 |
| Will & Grace | Marilyn Truman | 1998 |
| The X Files: Fight the Future | Cassidy | 1998 |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Narrator | 1998 |
| No Looking Back | Claudia's Mom | 1998 |
| The Proposition | Syril Danning | 1998 |
| The Farmhouse | Irma Miller / Irma | 1998 |
| Mad City | Mrs. Banks | 1997 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Mrs. Murphy | 1997 |
| The Myth of Fingerprints | Lena | 1997 |
| A Call to Remember | Paula Tobias | 1997 |
| The View | Herself | 1997 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1997 | |
| The West | Self / Alice Fletcher / Emmeline Wells | 1996 |
| Mad TV | Self | 1995 |
| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Beatrice | 1995 |
| Napoleon | Mother Dingo (voice) / Mother Dingo | 1995 |
| Homage | Katherine Samuel | 1995 |
| Extra | Self | 1994 |
| A Century of Women | (voice) | 1994 |
| Leave of Absence | Elisa | 1994 |
| Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Bianca Honicut | 1994 |
| Tracey Takes on New York | Eleanor Levine | 1993 |
| Lincoln | Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice) / Elizabeth Todd Edwards | 1992 |
| Husbands and Wives | Rain's mother / Rain's Parents | 1992 |
| Getting Up and Going Home | Lily | 1992 |
| Cruel Doubt | Bonnie Von Stein | 1992 |
| The Prince of Tides | Sally Wingo | 1991 |
| Never Forget | Jane Mermelstein | 1991 |
| Alice | Dorothy | 1990 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Grace Barron | 1990 |
| Judgment | Emmeline Guitry | 1990 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Margaret | 1989 |
| Tattinger's | Hillary Tattinger | 1988 |
| Another Woman | Lydia | 1988 |
| American Experience | (voice) | 1988 |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs | Kate | 1986 |
| American Masters | Voice of Aline Saarinen | 1986 |
| Guilty Conscience | Louise Jamison | 1985 |
| Man, Woman and Child | Sheila Beckwith | 1983 |
| St. Elsewhere | Paige Gerradeaux | 1982 |
| Inside the Third Reich | Margarete Speer | 1982 |
| Nightcap | Herself | 1982 |
| Entertainment Tonight | Self | 1981 |
| The 53rd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Presenter | 1981 |
| The 34th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1980 |
| The Great Santini | Lillian Meechum | 1979 |
| You Can't Take It with You | Alice Sycamore | 1979 |
| Too Far to Go | Joan Barlow Maple | 1979 |
| Are You in the House Alone? | Anne Osborne | 1978 |
| A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Eleanor Gehrig | 1977 |
| Futureworld | Tracy Ballard / Tracy 'Socks' Ballard | 1976 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
| Saturday Night Live | Various / Self - Host | 1975 |
| Hearts of the West | Miss Trout | 1975 |
| Lovin' Molly | Molly Taylor / Molly | 1974 |
| Sidekicks | Prudy Jenkins | 1974 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'the Last of the Belles' | Zelda Fitzgerald | 1974 |
| The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People | Self | 1973 |
| Adam's Rib | Amanda Bonner | 1973 |
| 1776 | Martha Jefferson | 1972 |
| M*A*S*H | Carlye Breslin Walton | 1972 |
| To Kill a Clown | Lily Frischer | 1972 |
| The Scarecrow | Rachel Merton | 1972 |
| Columbo | Janice Benedict | 1971 |
| Great Performances | Self / Nina / Narrator | 1971 |
| Dr. Cook's Garden | Janey Rausch | 1971 |
| N.Y.P.D. | Felicia | 1967 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2006 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
| 2005 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
| 2005 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 2005 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
| 2002 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
