Blythe Danner
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Blythe Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Katharine
(Kile) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has German, as well
as English and Irish, ancestry. Danner studied acting and got her
degree from Bard College and began her career in Boston theater
companies. By 25, she won the Theater World Award for her work in
Molière's "The Miser", at Lincoln Center. She
also won the 1970 Tony award for her role in "Butterflies Are Free".
She made her film premiere in the same year in the television
production of
Dr. Cook's Garden (1971).
For 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown
Summer Theater Festival. She has also been nominated for Tonys for
performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Betrayal". Married to
director Bruce Paltrow, she is the mother
of two acting children, Gwyneth Paltrow
and Jake Paltrow.
