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Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is a prolific two time Emmy-winning American actress who has appeared in numerous stage, screen, and film roles. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Marilyn Truman, mother of Will Truman in Will & Grace and as Dina Byrnes in Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. In the Hollywood celebrity scene, she may be best known as the mother of Gwyneth Paltrow. February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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William Will Pierce Truman is a fictional character on the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Eric McCormack. ...
Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award-winning American television situation comedy that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and Jack McFarland, an...
Meet the Parents (2000) is a comedy film starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. ...
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Gwyneth Katherine Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ...
Biography
Early life Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a family of part Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, the daughter of a bank executive. She has two brothers — opera singer/actor Harry Danner, and violin maker William Moennig (half-brother). She attended George School, a private Quaker secondary school in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Bard College, where she graduated in 1965. She holds three honorary doctorates of fine arts from Bard, Williams College, and Hobart. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area - City 369. ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch (perhaps more strictly Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvanian German) are descendants of German speaking immigrants who came to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s. ...
George School is a Quaker boarding and day high school in Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA. // History George School was founded in 1891 and opened in 1893 as a school for Hicksite members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) who wanted an alternative to Wilburite Westtown School; George School was the nation...
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Williams College is a private, coeducational, highly selective (18% admission rate in 2006) liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ...
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts institution. ...
Career Danner first appeared on stage with the Theater Company of Boston and the Trinity Square Repertory Company (now Trinity Repertory Company) in Providence, RI. She first gained national attention at age 25 by winning the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Lincoln Center Rep's production of The Miser. She went on to win a Tony Award in 1970 for her Broadway debut in Butterflies Are Free, playing the role later portrayed by Goldie Hawn in the film adaptation. The same year she appeared in her first film role, in a television production of Dr. Cook's Garden. She also received Tony nominations in 1980 for the original Broadway production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, in 1988 for a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire, and again in 2001 for a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. Danner was a close friend of actor Christopher Reeve and appeared with him in several plays. The Trinity Repertory Company is a regional theatre located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...
The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ...
LAvare is a five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
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Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 film with Eileen Heckart, Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert. ...
Hawn in the 1972 movie Butterflies Are Free Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born Goldie Jean Studlendgehawn on November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress. ...
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Betrayal, as a form of deception or dismissal of prior presumptions, is the breaking or violation of a presumptive social contract (trust, or confidence) that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongs individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations. ...
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A Streetcar Named Desire is a famous American play written by Tennessee Williams. ...
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Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. ...
Christopher Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. ...
Due to Danner's WASPy appearance and husky voice, she most frequently is cast as a middle class or upper class wife, or more lately, matriarch; although in 1986 in Brighton Beach Memoirs, she portrayed a middle-aged Jewish woman, and in 1982 in the TV movie Inside the Third Reich, she played the wife of Albert Speer. Her earliest starring film roles were opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown (1972) and in the title role of Lovin' Molly (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet. She has appeared in two films based on the novels of Pat Conroy, The Great Santini (1979) and The Prince of Tides (1991), as well as two television movies adapted from books by Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe and Back When We Were Grownups, both for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy by Neil Simon. ...
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Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945. ...
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Lovin Molly is a 1974 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner in the title role, Ed Binns, and Susan Sarandon. ...
See also: 1973 in film 1974 1975 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ...
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Pat Conroy (born October 26, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) is a New York Times bestselling author who has written such acclaimed works as The Lorccracker Heather is beautiful!!!!Discipline, Beach Music, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide, The Boo, My Losing Season, and...
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Anne Tyler (born on October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. ...
Back When We Were Grownups is a novel written by Anne Tyler in 2001, in memory of her husband who had died in 1997. ...
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Danner is more recently known for her role opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy hit Meet the Parents (2000) and its 2004 sequel, Meet the Fockers (with Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman). From 2004 to 2006 she starred in the TV series Huff. In July 2006, she received a second consecutive Emmy nomination for her work in the series and took home her second Emmy statuette for her portrayal of Izzie Huffstodt at the ceremony on August 27, 2006. Robert De Niro Jr. ...
Meet the Parents (2000) is a comedy film starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. ...
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// Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004. ...
Meet the Fockers (2004) is a comedy film and a sequel to Meet the Parents starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller. ...
Barbara Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, film producer and director. ...
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From 2001 to 2006, she regularly guest starred on Will & Grace as Will's mother Marilyn. In 2005, she was nominated for three Emmy Awards, for her work on Will & Grace, Huff and Back When We Were Grownups. Emmy host Ellen DeGeneres even poked fun at her during the ceremony, saying that Danner shouldn't be nervous because she's almost certain to win at least one Emmy. And indeed she did: Danner won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (for Huff, and it was her first Emmy win) and thanked her daughter and late husband, among others. She said New Orleans (which had recently been devastated by Hurricane Katrina) was her husband's favorite city, and ended by paying tribute to "our sons and daughters in Iraq," followed by, "let's get the heck outta there!" 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award-winning American television situation comedy that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and Jack McFarland, an...
William Will Pierce Truman is a fictional character on the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Eric McCormack. ...
This is a list of the supporting - major and minor recurring - characters on the NBC situation comedy Will & Grace, with information on each of them. ...
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Ellen Lee DeGeneres (surname pronounced in IPA: (born January 26, 1958 in Metairie, Louisiana) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. ...
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For 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival, where she also serves on the Board of Directors.
In 2006, Danner was awarded the Katharine Hepburn Medal, which recognizes "women whose lives, work and contributions embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress," by Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center. Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...
Personal life She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow, and is the widow of late producer Bruce Paltrow, who died from complications of pneumonia while losing his battle with throat cancer in 2002. Danner first co-starred with her daughter in 1992 in the TV movie Cruel Doubt, then again in the 2003 film Sylvia, playing the mother of the title character, played by her daughter. Gwyneth Katherine Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ...
Jacob D. Paltrow (born September 26, 1975) is a Jewish-American director. ...
Television and film producer Bruce Paltrow (November 26, 1943 - October 3, 2002) was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
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Is a 1992 made for TV starring Blythe Danner and Matt McGrath. ...
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Movie poster of Sylvia Sylvia is a 2003 British motion picture that tells a biographical story of romance between Sylvia Plath, a prominent American poet and Ted Hughes, an English poet. ...
She is also the aunt of actresses Hillary Danner and Katherine Moennig, and sister-in-law (through brother Harry) of opera director Dorothy Danner. Katherine Sian Moennig (born December 29, 1976) is an American actor. ...
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Although she has worked frequently on TV and on stage, Danner put her film career on hold for a number of years to raise her children. Danner often said the proudest night of her life was when Gwyneth won an Academy Award for Best Actress (for Shakespeare in Love), and Danner was the first person Paltrow thanked, tearfully, followed by her father and grandfather, who were both ill with cancer and subsequently died. The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ...
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Environmental activism In addition to her acting work, Blythe Danner has been involved in environmental issues such as recycling and conservation for over 30 years, having seen firsthand the contrast between her rural youth and her later residence in Los Angeles and New York. She has been active with INFORM, is on the Board of Environmental Activists and the Board of Directors of the Environmental Media Association, and won the 2002 EMA Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award. She was instrumental in implementing curbside recycling in Santa Monica and in retaining the New York City recycling program despite threatened budget cuts in 1991, has driven an electric car since the first General Motors EV1 was available, and has installed solar panels at her house. In 2002 Danner, her husband Bruce Paltrow, and her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow worked together on a series of public service announcements encouraging use of alternative energy sources and alternative fuel vehicles. Blythe Danner recently announced that she plans to take up skydiving. The international recycling symbol. ...
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Theater credits - The Miser (1968)
- Butterflies Are Free (1970)
- Betrayal (1980)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1988)
- Blythe Spirit (1987)
- Follies (2001)
- Much Ado About Nothing
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