Blythe Danner

Although to some she's best known as the mother of Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, this handsome, husky-voiced actress has enjoyed her own illustrious, award-winning career both on stage and screen...
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02/02/1943
Philadelphia, PA
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Played Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer's mother in the Two and a Half Men pilot, but claimed she didn't have a feel for the role and was subsequently replaced by Holland Taylor.
Has twice played Paltrow's mother on screen: in the TV miniseries Cruel Doubt (1992) and the feature film Sylvia (2003).
In 1974, during her first of many summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, she played Nina in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull; 20 years later, she appeared as Arkadina in the same play wh