Blythe Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Katharine .
Won Tony for "Butterflies Are Free".
Mother, with Bruce Paltrow , of Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Paltrow.
Has two brothers, Harry Danner is an opera singer & William is a violin expert, and a sister, Dorothy Danner, who is an opera director/choreographer.
Aunt of Hillary Danner and Katherine Moennig.
1965 graduate of Bard College
Graduated high school from George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania.
She was slated to play the Stockard Channing role in the original stage production of "Six Degrees of Separation", but left the company after a few days of rehearsal.
Won Broadways 1970 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress for "Butterflies Are Free." She has been nominated for Tonys three additional times: as Best Actress (Play), in 1980 for Harold Pinter s "Betrayal" and in 1988 for a revival of Tennessee Williams s "A Streetcar Named Desire;" and as Best Actress in 2001 for a revival of "Follies."
The first actress to be nominated for 3 Emmy awards in the same year .
Played Thomas Jeffersons wife, "Martha Jefferson", in the film version of the musical, 1776 . Her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow , later portrayed the daughter of Thomas & Martha Jefferson in the film, Jefferson in Paris . In Ken Burns miniseries, "Thomas Jefferson" , Blythe again played "Martha Jefferson" and her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow , played Jeffersons granddaughter.
Former mother-in-law of Chris Martin.
Godfather of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow is Steven Spielberg.
Good friend of Sheila Lukins, who was the matron of honor at the wedding of Blythe and her late husband, Bruce Paltrow. Sheila is a cookbook author and a contributor to Parade Magazine.
Became a grandmother to Moses Martin (Moses Bruce Anthony Martin), child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and former son-in-law Chris Martin , who was born on 8 April 2006.
Became a grandmother to Apple Martin (Apple Blythe Alison Martin), child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and former son-in-law Chris Martin , who was born on 14 May 2004.
She is of mostly German ancestry, with a small amount of British Isles (English and Irish), roots. Some of her ancestors lived in Barbados. Blythe speaks German, which she learned from her maternal grandmother, Pauline Friedericke Holzwarth, an immigrant from Oberweissbach, Germany.
Has played the wife of two different Thomas Jeffersons. She played the wife of Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard ) in 1776 , and later the wife of Nick Nolte in The Prince of Tides . Nolte went on to play Jefferson in Jefferson in Paris , opposite her real-life daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow.
Longtime friend of Norman Lloyd.
Lived on Fairview Road in Springfield (DelCo), PA as a child.
[on the birth of Moses, her second grandchild] We love unusual names in,the family.
My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
