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Date of Birth: Blythe Danner3 February 1943Mother of Jake Paltrow. Won Tony for "Butterflies Are Free". [1970] Mother, with Bruce Paltrow, of Gwyneth Paltrow. Has two brothers - Harry Danner is an opera singer & William is a violin expert. Aunt of Hillary Danner. 1965 graduate of Bard College Graduated high school from George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania. Aunt of actress Katherine Moennig. 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. ... She has a sister, Dorothy Danner, who is an opera director/choreographer. Won Broadway's 1970 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) 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 (Musical) in 2001 for a revival of "Follies." The first actress to be nominated for 3 Emmy awards in the same year (2005). Played 'Thomas Jefferson's wife 'Martha Jefferson' in the film version of the musical 1776 (1972). Her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, later portrayed the daughter of Thomas & Martha Jefferson in the film Jefferson in Paris (1995). 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 Bruce Anthony Martin, child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and son-in-law Chris Martin, who was born on 8 April 2006. Became a grandmother to Apple Blythe Alison Martin, child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and son-in-law Chris Martin, who was born on 14 May 2004. Of German (Pennsylvania Dutch) and Anglo-Saxon descent. Has played the wife of two different Thomas Jeffersons. She played the wife of Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard) in 1776 (1972), and later the wife of Nick Nolte in The Prince of Tides (1991). Nolte went on to play Jefferson in Jefferson in Paris (1995), opposite her real-life daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow. Is fluent in German, which she learned from her German grandmother. Read more At this site you can watch Blythe Danner movies online for free.
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