Blythe Katharine Danner (born
February 3,
1943) is an
American Emmy- and
Tony Award-winning
actress. She is the mother of actress
Gwyneth Paltrow.
Biography
Early life
Danner was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive.
[Blythe Danner Biography (1944?-)] She has two brothers: opera singer/actor Harry Danner and violin maker William Moennig (half-brother). Danner, of part
Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, attended
George School, a private Quaker secondary school in
Newtown,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and
Bard College, where she graduated in 1965.
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