Blythe Danner Timeline

Feb. 3, 1943: Blythe Danner is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1965: She graduates from Bard College.

1969: Danner plays the wife in Bruce Paltrow's off-Broadway play, Someone's Coming Hungry. The two begin a relationship.

1970: Stars in the play, Butterflies Are Free.

Oct. 1970: Marries Bruce Paltrow.

1971: Is awarded a Tony for her performance in Butterflies Are Free.

Sept. 28, 1972:: Daughter Gwyneth Paltrow is born.

Aug. 23, 1972: Stars in the film To Kill a Clown with Heath Lamberts.

Nov. 17, 1972: Stars in the film 1776.

Jan. 1, 1974: Stars in the film Lovin' Molly.

1975: Son Jake Paltrow is born.

Oct. 8, 1975: Stars in the film Hearts of the West with Jeff Bridges.

Aug. 13, 1976: Stars in the film Futureworld with Peter Fonda.

Oct. 26, 1979: Stars in the film The Great Santini with Robert Duvall.

1980: Receives a Tony nomination for her role in Harold Pinter's Broadway production, Betrayal.

Jan. 1, 1983: Stars in Man, Woman and Child with Martin Sheen.

Dec. 25, 1986: Stars in Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Oct. 14, 1988: Stars in the Woody Allen film Another Woman with David Ogden Stiers, Martha Plimpton, Gena Rowlands, John Houseman, Gene Hackman, Sandy Dennis, and Betty Buckley.

Dec. 25, 1990: Stars in the Woody Allen film Alice with Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, William Hurt, Cybill Shepard, Judy Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Bernadette Peters.

1990: Stars in Mr. & Mrs. Bridge with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Dec. 25, 1991: Stars in The Prince of Tides with Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte.

Sept. 18, 1992: Stars in the Woody Allen film Husbands and Wives with Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, and Sydney Pollack.

1988: Stars in a stage production of the Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire.

1988: Receives a Tony nomination for her role in a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.

1992: Danner co-stars with her daughter, Gwyneth, in the TV movie, Cruel Doubt.

Sept. 8 1995: Stars in To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar with Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes.

May 3, 1996: Stars in Homage.

Sept. 17, 1997: Stars in The Myth of Fingerprints with Julianne Moore and Roy Scheider.

Nov. 7, 1997: Stars in Mad City with Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta.

March 27, 1998: Stars in The Proposition with Kenneth Branagh and Madeleine Stowe.

March 27, 1998: Stars in the Edward Burns film, No Looking Back, with Lauren Holly and Jon Bon Jovi.

June 19, 1998: Stars in the film, The X-Files - Fight the Future, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

March 19, 1999: Stars in Forces of Nature with Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock.

May 21, 1999: Stars in The Love Letter with Kate Capshaw, Tom Selleck, Ellen DeGeneres, and Tom Everett Scott.

Oct. 6, 2000: Stars in Meet the Parents with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, and Teri Polo.

Oct. 17, 2003: Plays Sylvia Plath's mother in Sylvia starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig.

Dec. 22, 2004: Stars in Meet the Fockers with Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, and Teri Polo.

2001: Receives a Tony nomination for her role in Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

Oct. 2, 2002: Bruce Paltrow dies of a heart attack at a hospital in Rome, Italy.

Feb. 1, 2003: Gwyneth and Jake throw a surprise birthday party for their Blythe at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

2003: Has a role in Sylvia with daughter Gwyneth, who portrays Sylvia Plath. Danner plays Plath's mother.

2005: Wins Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Huff.