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. 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.



Mother of Jake Paltrow. Mother, with Bruce Paltrow, of Gwyneth Paltrow. Aunt of Hillary Danner. Graduated high school from George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania. She was slated to play the Stockard Channing role in the original stage production of "Six Degrees of Separation", but left the company after a few days of rehearsal. Won Broadway's 1970 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "Butterflies Are Free." She has been nominated for Tonys three additional times: as Best Actress (Play), in 1980 for Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" and in 1988 for a revival of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire;" and as Best Actress (Musical) in 2001 for a revival of "Follies." 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). Godfather of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow is Steven Spielberg. Became a grandmother to Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, child of her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow and son-in-law Chris Martin, who was born on 8 April 2006. Of German (Pennsylvania Dutch) and Anglo-Saxon descent. Is fluent in German, which she learned from her German grandmother.