Blythe Danner: movies and TV shows
Blythe Danner has 136 credits in the archive: 92 films and 44 TV series, from 1944 to 2026. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2026 · busiest year: 1998 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wildwood | (voice) | Film | — | 83 |
| 2026 | Focker-In-Law | Dina Byrnes | Film | — | 83 |
| 2023 | Happiness for Beginners | Gigi | Film | 6.2 | 80 |
| 2019 | Strange but True | Gail | Film | 6.0 | 76 |
| 2019 | The Chaperone | Mary O'Dell | Film | 6.2 | 76 |
| 2019 | The Tomorrow Man | Ronnie | Film | 5.7 | 76 |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Nancy Valance | TV | 7.5 | 75 |
| 2018 | Hearts Beat Loud | Marianne Fisher | Film | 6.8 | 75 |
| 2018 | What They Had | Ruth | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 75 |
| 2017 | American Gods | Demeter / Caroline Wells | TV | 7.1 | 74 |
| 2017 | American Gods | Demeter | TV | 7.1 | 74 |
| 2017 | Will & Grace | Marilyn Truman | TV | 7.5 | 74 |
| 2017 | Halfway There | Jeanne Ross | Film | 2.0 | 74 |
| 2017 | The Great War | Self (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2017 | The Great War | Self (voice) | TV | 9.0 | 74 |
| 2017 | Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport | Narrator | Film | — | 74 |
| 2016 | Madoff | Ruth Madoff | TV | 6.4 | 73 |
| 2016 | Tumbledown | Ellen Jespersen | Film | 6.2 | 73 |
| 2016 | Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future | Aline Saarinen (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 2015 | The Slap | Virginia | TV | 5.9 | 72 |
| 2015 | I'll See You in My Dreams | Carol Petersen | Film | 6.3 | 72 |
| 2014 | Murder of a Cat | Edie Moisey | Film | 5.0 | 71 |
| 2013 | Gilded Lilys | Caroline Lily | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 2012 | The Lucky One | Nana | Film | 7.2 | 69 |
| 2012 | Hello I Must Be Going | Ruth | Film | 5.9 | 69 |
| 2011 | Detachment | Ms. Perkins | Film | 7.6 | 68 |
| 2011 | Paul | Tara Walton | Film | 6.7 | 68 |
| 2011 | Up All Night | Angie Chafin | TV | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2011 | What's Your Number? | Ava Darling | Film | 6.5 | 68 |
| 2011 | Prohibition | Reader (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 68 |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | Dina Byrnes | Film | 5.7 | 67 |
| 2010 | Waiting for Forever | Miranda Twist | Film | 5.9 | 67 |
| 2009 | Nurse Jackie | Maureen Cooper | TV | 7.1 | 66 |
| 2009 | Beyond All Boundaries | Elsa Maxwell | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 2009 | The Lightkeepers | Mrs. Bascom | Film | 5.8 | 66 |
| 2008 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | Greta | Film | 6.3 | 65 |
| 2008 | Side by Each | Daisy/Delores/Delilah | Film | 10.0 | 65 |
| 2006 | The Last Kiss | Anna | Film | 6.1 | 63 |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | TV | 6.8 | 62 |
| 2005 | Medium | Louise Leaming | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | Dina Byrnes | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 2004 | Huff | Isabelle Huffstodt | TV | 7.7 | 61 |
| 2004 | Back When We Were Grownups | Rebecca Holmes Davitch | Film | 4.8 | 61 |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | TV | 5.5 | 60 |
| 2003 | Working Shakespeare | TV | — | 60 | |
| 2003 | Sylvia | Aurelia Plath | Film | 5.8 | 60 |
| 2002 | Presidio Med | Dr. Harriet Lanning | TV | 8.0 | 59 |
| 2002 | We Were the Mulvaneys | Corinne Mulvaney | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 59 |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice) | TV | — | 59 |
| 2001 | Good Day Live | Self | TV | 3.8 | 58 |
| 2001 | The Invisible Circus | Gail | Film | 5.2 | 58 |
| 2000 | Meet the Parents | Dina Byrnes | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 1999 | Forces of Nature | Virginia | Film | 5.5 | 56 |
| 1999 | Things I Forgot to Remember | Mrs. Bradford | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1999 | The Love Letter | Lillian | Film | 5.2 | 56 |
| 1998 | Will & Grace | Marilyn Truman | TV | 6.9 | 55 |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.1 | 55 |
| 1998 | The X-Files | Cassidy | Film | 6.9 | 55 |
| 1998 | No Looking Back | Claudia's Mom | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 1998 | Eye of the Storm | Irma | Film | 6.7 | 55 |
| 1998 | The Proposition | Syril Danning | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1998 | Saint Maybe | Bee Bedloe | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 1998 | Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery | Mrs. Murphy (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 55 |
| 1997 | The Myth of Fingerprints | Lena | Film | 5.1 | 54 |
| 1997 | Mad City | Mrs. Banks | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 1997 | A Call to Remember | Paula Tobias | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1997 | Thomas Jefferson | Martha Jefferson (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1995 | Napoleon | Mother Dingo (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Beatrice | Film | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1995 | Homage | Katherine Samuel | Film | 4.5 | 52 |
| 1994 | Leave of Absence | Elisa | Film | 4.5 | 51 |
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Bianca Honicut | Film | 4.5 | 51 |
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Bianca Honicut | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 4.5 | 50 |
| 1993 | Tracey Ullman Takes on New York | Eleanor Levine | Film | 6.2 | 50 |
| 1992 | Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings | The Daughter | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1992 | Husbands and Wives | Rain's mother | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1992 | Cruel Doubt | Bonnie Von Stein | TV | 4.8 | 49 |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 49 |
| 1992 | Getting Up and Going Home | Lily Montgomery | Film | 10.0 | 49 |
| 1991 | The Prince of Tides | Sally Wingo | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1991 | Never Forget | Jane Mermelstein | Film | 5.0 | 48 |
| 1990 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Grace Barron | Film | 6.1 | 47 |
| 1990 | Alice | Dorothy | Film | 6.4 | 47 |
| 1990 | Judgment | Emmeline Guitry | Film | 5.5 | 47 |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt | Margaret | TV | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1989 | Money, Power, Murder. | Jeannie | Film | 5.4 | 46 |
| 1988 | Tattingers | TV | 6.0 | 45 | |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Lydia | Film | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Bishop: One Art | Voice of Elizabeth Bishop | Film | — | 44 |
| 1986 | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Kate | Film | 6.6 | 43 |
| 1985 | Guilty Conscience | Louise Jamison | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1984 | Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues | Anne Sullivan | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1983 | Man, Woman and Child | Sheila Beckwith | Film | 5.6 | 40 |
| 1983 | In Defense of Kids | Ellen Wilcox | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1982 | St. Elsewhere | Paige Gerradeaux | TV | 5.7 | 39 |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Margarete Speer | TV | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1979 | The Great Santini | Lillian Meechum | Film | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1979 | Too Far to Go | Joan Barlow Maple | Film | 3.5 | 36 |
| 1979 | You Can't Take it With You | Alice Sycamore | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1978 | Are You in the House Alone? | Anne Osborne | Film | 6.5 | 35 |
| 1978 | A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Eleanor Gehrig | Film | 9.5 | 35 |
| 1977 | The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer | Elizabeth Custer | Film | 2.0 | 34 |
| 1976 | Futureworld | Tracy Ballard | Film | 5.9 | 33 |
| 1976 | The Eccentricities of a Nightingale | Alma Winemiller | Film | 8.3 | 33 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 32 |
| 1975 | Hearts of the West | Miss Trout | Film | 5.6 | 32 |
| 1975 | The Seagull | Nina | Film | 10.0 | 32 |
| 1974 | Lovin' Molly | Molly Taylor | Film | 4.9 | 31 |
| 1974 | Sidekicks | Prudy Jenkins | Film | 6.5 | 31 |
| 1974 | F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles | Zelda Fitzgerald | Film | 5.2 | 31 |
| 1973 | Adam's Rib | Amanda Bonner | TV | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H | Carlye | TV | 7.9 | 29 |
| 1972 | 1776 | Martha Jefferson | Film | 6.9 | 29 |
| 1972 | To Kill a Clown | Lily Frischer | Film | 5.7 | 29 |
| 1972 | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | Self and other assorted characters | Film | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1972 | Scarecrow | Rachel Merton | Film | 8.0 | 29 |
| 1971 | Columbo | Janice Benedict | TV | 8.1 | 28 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Nina | TV | 6.1 | 28 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Alma Winemiller | TV | 6.1 | 28 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 28 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Narrator | TV | 6.1 | 28 |
| 1971 | Dr. Cook's Garden | Janey Rausch | Film | 6.8 | 28 |
| 1970 | George M! | Agnes Nolan | Film | 8.5 | 27 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV | — | 13 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 13 |
| 1952 | Today | Self | TV | 5.6 | 9 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Elizabeth Custer | TV | 8.8 | 8 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Bee Bedloe | TV | 8.8 | 8 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Rebecca Holmes Davitch | TV | 8.8 | 8 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 1 |
| Pretty/Handsome | Bunny | TV | 2.8 | — | |
| RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare | Self | Film | — | — | |
| Small Potatoes | Mimi | Film | — | — |