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Blythe Danner
BLYTHE DANNER received a Tony Award for her Broadway debut performance in Butterflies Are Free. Her other Tony-nominated performances include her performance as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, and most recently, Phyllis in Steven Sondheim's Follies at Roundabout Theatre Company; she also appeared Off-Broadway as Mrs. Venable in Roundabout's production of Suddenly Last Summer. For New York's Shakespeare Festival in the Park, Danner played Beatrice to Kevin Kline's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. For more than 20 years she has been a member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and has appeared with such regional companies as the Mark Taper Forum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Repertory Company of Lincoln Center and the Manhattan Theatre Club. Her movies include 1776, The Great Santini with Robert Duvall, Barbara Streisand's The Prince of Tides, three Woody Allen films, Merchant Ivory's Mr. & Mrs. Bridge with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, and Sylvia with her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow. Danner's television appearances include Chekhov's The Seagull, G.B. Shaw's Candida for PBS, St. Elsewhere, Inside the Third Reich, Cruel Doubt, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Guilty Conscience, Hallmark's Saint Maybe, Tattingers, Adam's Rib, Columbo, and M.A.S.H. Blythe Danner was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Joyce Carol Oates's We Were the Mulvaneys. She also had a recurring role as Marilyn Truman on the NBC sitcom Will and Grace. Most recently she won an Emmy Award in September of 2005 for her role as Isabelle 'Izzy' Huffstodt on the Showtime series Huff.

Bio as of January, 2007.



American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:

Working in the Theatre (video)
Leading Ladies - December, 2006 - Watch now.
Performance - April, 1998 - Watch now.
Performance - April, 1988 - Watch now.

Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)