Blythe Danner

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). In Ken Burns miniseries, Thomas Jefferson (1997), Blythe again played "Martha Jefferson" and her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, played Jefferson's granddaughter.

Blythe Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Katharine (Kile) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has German, as well as English and Irish, ancestry. Danner 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 Molière'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.

She and her niece Hillary Danner both appeared in episodes of Columbo (1971) in which the murderer was a conductor: Blythe in Columbo: Étude in Black (1972) and Hillary in Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes (2000).

Became a grandmother to Apple Martin (Apple Blythe Alison Martin), child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and former son-in-law Chris Martin, who was born on 14 May 2004.

The first actress to be nominated for 3 Emmy awards in the same year (2005).

Became a grandmother to Moses Martin (Moses Bruce Anthony Martin), child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and former son-in-law Chris Martin, who was born on 8 April 2006.