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In the Spotlight Series: THE COUNTRY HOUSE's Blythe Danner

By: Oct. 13, 2014
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Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere co-production of The Country House, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, is currently playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Blythe Danner, Kate Jennings Grant (The Lyons, Proof), Eric Lange (FX's "The Bridge," "Weeds"), David Rasche (Regrets Only, Speed-the-Plow), Sarah Steele (Slowgirl, Speech and Debate), and Tony nominee Daniel Sunjata (TNT's "Graceland," Take Me Out). Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos of Danner in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In The Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride!

Tony and Emmy winner Blythe Danner (The Commons of Pensacola, Meet the Parents) stars as Anna Patterson, the matriarch of a brood of famous and longing-to-be-famous creative artists who have gathered at their Berkshires summerhouse during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But when the weekend takes an unexpected turn, everyone is forced to improvise... inciting a series of simmering jealousies, romantic outbursts and passionate soul-searching. This witty and compelling new play provides a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other's lives.

Danner won two Emmy awards for her role on Showtime's "Huff" and was nominated twice for roles on "Will & Grace" and in Joyce Carol Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys." She received a Golden Globe nomination for Anne Tyler's Back When We Were Grownups, and her list of career accomplishments continues with a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in Butterflies Are Free and nominations for roles in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire and Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies. She most recently appeared on Broadway in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, and Off-Broadway in The Commons of Pensacola. Her film roles include Woody Allen's Alice, The Great Santini, the Meet the Parents trilogy, What's Your Number? and Sylvia, a film in which she appeared with her daughter, actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.


Blythe Danner photographed at the Hard Rock Cafe on October 2, 2014 in New York City.




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