Blythe Danner

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RECENT CREDITS

Detachment (FILM) Mar. 16, 2012

What's Your Number? (FILM) Sep. 30, 2011

Paul (FILM) Mar. 18, 2011

Waiting for Forever (FILM) Feb. 4, 2011

Little Fockers (FILM) Dec. 22, 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS

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

Has twice played Paltrow's mother on screen: in the TV miniseries Cruel Doubt (1992) and the feature film Sylvia (2003).

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.

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Paul 2011 -Tara Walton

Actor

Film

What's Your Number? 2011

Actor

Film

Waiting for Forever 2011 -Miranda

Actor

Film

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 2008 -Greta

Actor

Film

The Last Kiss 2006 -Anna

Actor

Film

Stolen 2006 -Narrator

Voice

Film

Meet the Fockers 2004 -Dina Byrnes

Actor

Film

Sylvia 2003 -Aurelia Plath

Actor

Film

The Invisible Circus 2001 -Gail O'Connor

Actor

Film

Meet the Parents 2000 -Dina Byrnes

Actor

Film

The Love Letter 1999 -Lillian

Actor

Film

Forces of Nature 1999 -Virginia

Actor

Film

The X-Files 1998 -Jana Cassidy

Actor

Film

Husbands and Wives 1992 -Rain's Mother

Actor

Film

The Prince of Tides 1991 -Sallie Wingo

Actor

Film

Alice 1990 -Dorothy

Actor

Film

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge 1990 -Grace Barron

Actor

Film

Another Woman 1988 -Lydia

Actor

Film

Brighton Beach Memoirs 1986 -Kate

Actor

Film

A Call to Remember -Paula Tobias

Actor

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

Actor

Adam's Rib -Amanda

Actor

Are You in the House Alone?

Actor

Columbo -Janice

Actor

Etude in Black (1972) -Janice

Actor

TV Episode

Dr. Cook's Garden

Actor

Eccentricities of a Nightingale -Alma Winemiller

Actor

Echoes From the White House

Voice

Getting Up and Going Home -Lily

Actor

Guilty Conscience

Actor

Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk?

Narrator

Huff 2004-2006 -Izzy

Actor

Which Lip Is the Cervical Lip? (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Black Shadows (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Tapping the Squid (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Bethless (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Radio Silence (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

A Cornfield Grows in L.A. (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

So...What Brings You to Armageddon? (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Red Meat (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Used, Abused and Unenthused (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Sweet Release (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Whipped Doggie (2006) -Izzy

Actor

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Maps Don't Talk (2006) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Crazy, Nuts and All Messed Up (2005) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

All the King's Horses (2005) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

The Sample Closet (2005) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

The Good Doctor (2005) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Christmas Is Ruined (2005) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Cold Day in Shanghai (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

That Stupid Cabin (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Is She Dead! (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Flashpants (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Control (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Lipstick on Your Panties (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Assault and Pepper (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Huff (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Pilot Episode (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

Pilot Episode (2004) -Izzy

Actor

TV Episode

In Defense of Kids

Actor

Inside the Third Reich -Margarete

Actor

Leave of Absence -Eliza Mercer

Actor

Medium

Actor

Nurse Jackie

Actor

Presidio Med 2002-2003 -Harriet Lanning

Actor

Cascading (2003) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Best of Enemies (2003) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Good Question (2003) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Breathless (2003) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

With Grace (2003) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Suffer unto Me the Children (2003) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Pick Your Battles (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Once upon a Family (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Milagros (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Secrets (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

When Approaching a Let-Go (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Do No Harm (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Second Chance (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

This Baby's Gonna Fly (Pilot) (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Presidio Med (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

This Baby's Gonna Fly (Pilot) (2002) -Harriet Lanning

Actor

TV Episode

Saint Maybe -Bee Bedloe

Actor

Saturday Night Live

Host

Blythe Danner; Rickie Lee Jones (1982) -Host

Host

TV Episode

Tattinger's -Hillary Tattinger

Actor

Too Far to Go

Actor

We Were the Mulvaneys -Corinne Mulvaney

Actor

Will & Grace 2001-2006 -Marilyn Truman

Actor

The Mourning Son (2006) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Blanket Apology (2006) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

From Queer to Eternity (2005) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Christmas Break (2004) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

I Never Cheered for My Father (2004) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Heart like a Wheelchair (2003) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Me and Mr. Jones (2003) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Home Court Disadvantage (2003) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Cheatin' Trouble Blues (2002) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

Moveable Feast (2001) -Marilyn Truman

Actor

TV Episode

The Proposition 1998 -Syril Danning

Actor

Film

No Looking Back 1998 -Claudia's Mom

Actor

Film

Mad City 1997 -Mrs. Banks

Actor

Film

The Myth of Fingerprints 1997 -Lena

Actor

Film

Homage 1995 -Katherine Samuel

Actor

Film

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar 1995 -Beatrice

Actor

Film

The Great Santini 1979 -Lillian Meechum

Actor

Film

Futureworld 1976 -Tracy Ballard

Actor

Film

1776 1972 -Martha Jefferson

Actor

Film

A Call to Remember -Paula

Actor

Film

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story -Eleanor Gehrig

Actor

Film

Are You in the House Alone? -Anne Osborne

Actor

Film

Back When We Were Grownups -Rebecca Davitch

Actor

Film

Dr. Cook's Garden -Jane Rausch

Actor

Film

Eccentricities of a Nightgale -Alma Winemiller

Actor

Film

Echoes from the White House

Voice

Film

Eye of the Storm

Actor

Film

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles -Zelda Fitzgerald

Actor

Film

In Defense of Kids

Actor

Film

Inside the Third Reich -Margarete Speer

Actor

Film

Judgment -Emmeline Guitry

Actor

Film

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864 -Elizabeth Todd Edwards

Voice

Film

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865 -Elizabeth Todd Edwards

Voice

Film

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862 -Elizabeth Todd Edwards

Voice

Film

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863 -Elizabeth Todd Edwards

Voice

Film

Getting Up and Going Home -Lily

Actor

Film

Guilty Conscience -Louise Jamison

Actor

Film

Hearts of the West -Miss Trout

Actor

Film

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues -Anne Sullivan

Actor

Film

Lovin' Molly -Molly

Actor

Film

Cruel Doubt

Actor

Film

Man, Woman and Child -Sheila Beckwith

Actor

Film

Money, Power, Murder -Jeannie

Actor

Film

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All -Bianca

Actor

Film

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery -Mrs. Murphy

Voice

Film

Never Forget -Jane Mermelstein

Actor

Film

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

Actor

Film

Saint Maybe

Actor

Film

Sidekicks -Prudy Jenkins

Actor

Film

Too Far to Go -Joan Barlow Maple

Actor

Film

To Kill a Clown -Lily Frischer

Actor

Film

We Were the Mulvaneys

Actor

Film

Detachment 2012

Actor

Film

Little Fockers 2010 -Dina Byrnes

Actor

Film

The Lightkeepers 2010 -Emeline Bascom

Actor

Film

Highlights

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

Has twice played Paltrow's mother on screen: in the TV miniseries Cruel Doubt (1992) and the feature film Sylvia (2003).

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.