Blythe Danner

In 2002 Danner, her husband Bruce Paltrow, and her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow worked together on a series of PSAs encouraging use of alternative energy sources and alternative fuel vehicles. Duff launched a clothing line, "Stuff" on March 12, 2004 with clothes distributed through Target in the United States and Zellers in Canada. She was instrumental in implementing curbside recycling in Santa Monica and in retaining the New York City recycling program despite threatened budget cuts in 1991, has driven an electric car since the first General Motors EV1 was available, and has installed solar panels at her house. Nicknames include Hil (allegedly the most common), Hilly and Hils. She has been active with INFORM, is on the Board of Environmental Activists and the Board of Directors of the Environmental Media Association, and won the 2002 EMA Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award. to allow her to study. In addition to her acting work, Blythe Danner has been involved with environmental issues such as recycling and conservation for over 30 years, having seen firsthand the contrast between her rural youth and her later residence in Los Angeles and New York. Duff is involved with many charities, is an animal rights enthusiast, and a member of "Kids With a Cause." She gets up at 4.30 a.m.

She often said the proudest night of her life was when Gwyneth won an Oscar for best actress, and her mother was the first person she thanked. Duff has also been reported to have dated Jordan Masterson. Although she has worked frequently on TV and on stage, Danner put her film career on hold for a number of years to raise her children. She also was involved in a celebrity feud with Avril Lavigne. She is also the aunt of actresses Hillary Danner and Katherine Moennig, and sister-in-law (through brother Harry) of opera director Dorothy Danner. There were reports that she had tried to have fellow teen actress Lindsay Lohan banned from the preview of Cheaper by the Dozen because Lohan had previously been dating Carter in late 2003, as well as other reports about a fistfight that supposedly took place between the two actresses. Danner first co-starred with her daughter in 1992 in the TV movie Cruel Doubt, then again in the 2003 film Sylvia, playing the mother of the title character, played by her daughter. Duff has dated singer Aaron Carter, brother of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter.

She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and actor Jake Paltrow, and the widow of producer Bruce Paltrow. The album was supposed to be called "A Girl Can Rock." Its first single is "Fly", and it also includes "Haters", which is rumored to be about Lindsay Lohan, who is sometimes considered to be Duff's enemy. For twenty-five years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival, where she also serves on the Board of Directors. She says that it has an edgier, rock feel into it. She has appeared in two films based on the novels of Pat Conroy, The Great Santini (1979) and The Prince of Tides (1991), as well as two television movies adapted from books by Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe and Back When We Were Grownups, both for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Danner is more recently known for her role opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy hit Meet the Parents (2000) and its (2004) sequel, Meet the Fockers (with Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman), and for her work in 2004 in the cable TV series Huff. On September 28, 2004 (her birthday), she released her second album, the self-titled Hilary Duff. Her earliest starring film roles were opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown (1972) and in the title role of Lovin' Molly (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet. The song is from the soundtrack of A Cinderella Story [1] (http://www.netmusiccountdown.com/news/article.php?id=5567/1).

Due to Danner's WASPy apearance and husky voice, she most frequently is cast as a middle class or upper class wife, or more lately, matriarch; although in 1986 in Brighton Beach Memoirs, she portrayed a middle-aged Jewish woman, and in 1982 in the TV movie Inside the Third Reich, she played the wife of Albert Speer. On May 31, 2004, a video of her cover version of "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Gos with her sister Haylie Duff made its MTV debut. Danner was a close friend of actor Christopher Reeve and appeared with him in several plays. Metamorphosis was nominated in the Juno Awards of 2004 for "International Album of the Year", losing to 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'. She also received Tony nominations in 1980 for the original Broadway production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, in 1988 for a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire, and again in 2001 for a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. Subsequent singles from the album include:. Cook's Garden. One of these songs, So Yesterday, was released as the first single, reaching number 2 in Canada, top 40 in Australia and just outside the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

The same year she appeared in her first film role, in a television production of Dr. The Matrix, who had worked with singers such as Avril Lavigne on her Let Go album and Liz Phair, provided three songs on the album. She went on to win a Tony Award in 1970 for her Broadway debut in Butterflies Are Free, playing the role later portrayed by Goldie Hawn in the film adaptation. The Metamorphosis album featured music that would appeal to teenagers as well as the tweens who had supported her to date. Danner first appeared on stage with the Theater Company of Boston and the Trinity Square Playhouse of Boston, and first gained national attention at age 25 by winning the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Lincoln Center Rep's production of The Miser. In 2003 she recorded her first album, entitled Metamorphosis, which was released on August 26 and went to number one on the US and Canadian charts in that year (see 2003 in music). She holds three honorary doctorates of fine arts from Bard, Williams College, and Hobart. The title track also featured on the soundtrack to The Santa Clause 2 starring Tim Allen.