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Biography #2 (for Sylvia)
Blythe Danner received a Tony Award for her debut Broadway role, in Leonard Gershe's play Butterflies Are Free. She received subsequent Tony Award nominations for Blanche in Tennesse Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, and Phyllis in Stephen Sondheim's Follies.She starred as Beatrice opposite Kevin Kline's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (for New York Shakespeare Festival). Her other Broadway credits include The Philadelphia Story (Lincoln Center), The Deep Blue Sea (the Roundabout Theatre), and Blithe Spirit. For more than 20 years, she has been a member of the Williamstown Theater Festival, and has also performed at Mark Taper Forum, B.A.M., and the Manhattan Theatre Club. For the latter, she starred in A.R. Gurney's Sylvia (unrelated to Sylvia and Sylvia Plath).
On-screen, Ms. Danner most recently starred opposite Robert De Niro in Jay Roach's blockbuster comedy Meet the Parents, for which a sequel is planned. Her other film credits include 1776, The Great Santini (opposite Robert Duvall), Brighton Beach Memoirs (adapted by Neil Simon from his play), Merchant Ivory's Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman), Barbra Streisand's The Prince of Tides, and three Woody Allen films.
Her many television appearances include PBS adaptations of Chekhov's The Seagull and G.B. Shaw's Candida. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2002 for her performance in Lifetime's We Were the Mulvaneys. She received CableACE Award nominations for her performances in the telefilms A Call to
Remember and Judgment. She has a recurring role as Will's mother on the hit NBC comedy Will and Grace.
Ms. Danner drives an electric car and powers it and her home with solar panels. She highly recommends all alternative energies to one and all.
Bio courtesy Focus Features for "Sylvia" (01-Jan-2000)
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