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Main Movie Roles 2011 - Paul 2010 - Little Fockers 2008 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 2006 - The Last Kiss 2004 - Sylvia 2004 - Meet the Fockers 2000 - Meet the Parents 1999 - Forces of Nature 1999 - The Love Letter 1998 - The Proposition 1998 - The X-Files: Fight the Future 1997 - Mad City 1992 - Husbands and Wives 1991 - The Prince of Tides 1990 - Alice 1988 - Another Woman 1986 - Brighton Beach Memoirs 1979 - The Great Santini 1976 - Futureworld 1972 - 1776

BIOGRAPHY:

Blythe studied acting and got her degree from Bard College and began her career in Boston theater companies. By 25, she won the Theater World Award for her work in 'Moliere''s "The Miser" at Lincoln Center. She also won the 1970 Tony award for her role in "Butterflies Are Free". She made her film premiere in the same year in the television production of Dr. Cook's Garden (1971) (TV). For 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival. She has also been nominated for Tonys for performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Betrayal". Married to director Bruce Paltrow, she is the mother of two acting children Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Paltrow.


TRIVIA:

• Aunt of actress 'Katherine Moennig' (qv).
• Of German (Pennsylvania Dutch) and Anglo-Saxon descent.
• Played 'Thomas Jefferson's wife 'Martha Jefferson' in the film version of the musical _1776 (1972)_ (qv). Her daughter, 'Gwyneth Paltrow' (qv), later portrayed the daughter of Thomas & Martha Jefferson in the film _Jefferson in Paris (1995)_ (qv).
• (1970) Won Tony for "Butterflies Are Free".
• Became a grandmother to Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, child of her daughter 'Gwyneth Paltrow' (qv) and son-in-law 'Chris Martin (XI)' (qv), who was born on 8 April 2006.
• The first actress to be nominated for 3 Emmy awards in the same year (2005).
• Aunt of 'Hillary Danner' (qv).
• Is fluent in German, which she learned from her German grandmother.