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Blythe Danner
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February 3, 1943 in Philadelphia, PA
Biography:American actress "Blythe Danner" brings a kind of classy elegance to her work that betrays her real-life background: the daughter of a Philadelphia bank executive, she enjoyed an expensive prep school education and undergraduate study at Bard College. Her earliest theatrical work was with the Theater Company of Boston and the Trinity Square Playhouse of Boston; by the time she was 25, Danner had won the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Lincoln Center Rep's production of The Miser. In 1970, she earned a Tony for her performance in "Butterflies are Free"; based on the true story of a blind attorney, Danner played the central character's free-spirit love interest. Given the tenor of '70s newspaper publicity, Danner was featured in several magazine and newspaper photo spreads because she spent much of Butterflies' first act clad in nothing but her underwear. Subsequently, the actress... Full Biography
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Blake Lively, left, and Blythe Danner in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" (Warner Bros....
Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner in "The Last Kiss"
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