Lois Smith

Lois Arlene Smith (née Humbert; born November 3, 1930) is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1955 drama film East of Eden, and later played supporting roles in a number of movies, including Five Easy Pieces (1970), Resurrection (1980), Fatal Attraction (1987), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Dead Man Walking, Twister (1996), Minority Report (2002), The Nice Guys (2016) and Lady Bird (2017). In 2017, Smith received critical acclaim for her leading performance in the science-fiction drama film Marjorie Prime, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and Saturn Award, and well as won Satellite Award. Smith also has had many roles on television, both daytime and prime time. She was regular cast member in the HBO horror drama True Blood, and well as received Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series nomination for The Americans. Smith also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving two Tony Award nominations for originating the role of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1990) and for the role of Halie in a revival of Buried Child in 1996. She also starred in an acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful in 2005 for which she received an Obie Award for Best Actress, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Drama Desk Award. Smith is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Topeka, Kansas, USA, 1930-11-03

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	East of Eden	Anne	76
2	1955	Strange Lady in Town	Spurs O'Brien	45
3	1967	Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night	Evelyn	0
4	1970	Dragon Country	Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")	50
5	1970	Five Easy Pieces	Partita Dupea	71
6	1976	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Anita Cunningham	64
7	1985	Twisted	Helen Giles	51
8	1985	The Execution of Raymond Graham	Mary Neal	64
9	1985	Doubletake	Sarah	52
10	1987	Black Widow	Sara	62
11	1988	Hello Actors Studio	Self	60
12	1991	Coney Island	(voice)	60
13	1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Mama Threadgoode	77
14	1992	The Donner Party	voice	68
15	1993	Skylark	Lou Wheaton	72
16	1993	Falling Down	D-Fens' Mother	74
17	1994	Holy Matrimony	Orna	53
18	1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Sophia	64
19	1995	Dead Man Walking	Helen's Mother	73
20	1996	Twister	Aunt Meg	65
21	1998	The Eternal	Mrs. Ferriter	43
22	2002	The Laramie Project	Lucy Thompson	63
23	2002	Minority Report	Dr. Iris Hineman	74
24	2003	Red Betsy	Helen Rounds	0
25	2004	The Best Thief in the World	Helen	44
26	2004	Iron Jawed Angels	Reverend Anna Howard Shaw	69
27	2004	P.S.	Ellie Silverstein	56
28	2005	James Dean: Sense Memories	Self	0
29	2005	Sweet Land	Inge (as an older woman)	64
30	2006	Little Fugitive	Elizabeth	57
31	2006	Little Fugitive	Social Worker	57
32	2006	Hollywoodland	Helen Bessolo	61
33	2008	Turn the River	Abby	53
34	2009	A Dog Year	Lois Blair	62
35	2010	Please Give	Mrs. Portman	62
36	2012	Roadie	Mom	57
37	2012	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Aunt Mel	70
38	2014	Showing Up	Self	92
39	2025	The Uninvited	Helen	58
40		The Steel Harp		0
41	1960	The Master Builder	Hilda	0
42	1970	The Way We Live Now	Jane Aldridge	0
43	1972	Particular Men		0
44	1972	Up the Sandbox	Elinore	58
45	1980	Foxes	Mrs. Axman	59
46	1980	The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	Cornelia	0
47	1980	Resurrection	Kathy	65
48	1981	The House of Mirth	Bertha Dorset	0
49	1981	Four Friends	Mrs. Carnahan	69
50	1983	Reuben, Reuben	Mare Spofford	65
51	1984	Reckless	Mrs. Prescott	58
52	1987	Fatal Attraction	Martha	68
53	1988	Midnight Run	Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend	72
54	1990	Green Card	Brontë's Mother	61
55	1991	The Grapes of Wrath	Ma Joad	0
56	1991	Switched at Birth	Margaret	66
57	1991	White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd	Alice Todd	60
58	1992	Hard Promises	Mrs. Bell	54
59	1992	Keep the Change	Lureen	60
60	1992	Deadly Matrimony		52
61	1995	Truman	Madge Wallace Gates	76
62	1996	Larger Than Life	Luluna	55
63	1997	Hudson River Blues		0
64	1999	Tumbleweeds	Ginger	65
65	2001	The Pledge	Helen Jackson	66
66	2001	Powder Keg	Mother	68
67	2006	Griffin & Phoenix	Dr. Imberman	71
68	2008	Diminished Capacity	Belle	54
69	2013	The Man Who Came Out Only at Night	The Youngest Daughter (later)	0
70	2015	Run All Night	Margaret Conlon	64
71	2016	The Nice Guys	Mrs. Glenn	71
72	2016	The Comedian	Miriam	57
73	2017	Marjorie Prime	Marjorie	61
74	2017	Lady Bird	Sister Sarah Joan	73
75	2020	Tesla	The Grande Dame	58
76	2020	The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America	Harper Pitt	100
77	2020	Uncle Frank	Aunt Butch	73
78	2021	The French Dispatch	Upshur 'Maw' Clampette	70
79	2022	Mack & Rita	Betty	55
80	2025	The Gettysburg Address	Elizabeth Crawford (voice)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Lisa Molloy	50
2	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
3	1953	Letter to Loretta	Jenny Musgrave	65
4	1953	The United States Steel Hour	Jeannie	62
5	1955	Matinee Theater		50
6	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
7	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee/Performer	51
8	1958	Naked City	Dawn Garrison	55
9	1959	Startime		60
10	1960	Route 66		63
11	1960	Route 66	Dana	63
12	1960	Route 66	Lucy Brown	63
13	1961	The Defenders	Esther Terranova	62
14	1961	Dr. Kildare	Libby Clayton	55
15	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
16	1970	Somerset	Zoe Cannell	50
17	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Sara	67
18	1983	Rage of Angels	Clara	55
19	1985	The Equalizer	Marie Ganucci	72
20	1985	The Equalizer	Dorothy Hermes	72
21	1985	Spenser: For Hire		67
22	1987	thirtysomething		63
23	1988	American Experience	(voice)	74
24	1990	Law & Order	Eunice Varick	74
25	1991	Good Sports		60
26	1993	Frasier	Moira	77
27	1994	ER	Gracie	78
28	1994	Touched by an Angel	Mildred Mancini	72
29	1997	Just Shoot Me!	Libby	66
30	1997	The Practice	Mary Beth Berluti	77
31	1998	A Will of their Own	Miss Maude	70
32	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Rebecca Tolliver	79
33	2001	The Hire	Mother	76
34	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Betty Bennett	76
35	2003	Cold Case	Fannie	78
36	2004	LAX	Rose Sinclair	74
37	2004	Desperate Housewives	Allison Scavo	79
38	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Mrs. Dickerson	82
39	2008	True Blood	Adele Stackhouse	76
40	2012	Ruth & Erica	Ruth	80
41	2013	The Americans	Betty Turner	79
42	2013	Ray Donovan	Dolores	75
43	2013	Mom	Claire	73
44	2013	The Blacklist	Lucy Game	76
45	2015	Younger	Belinda Lacroix	68
46	2015	Grace and Frankie	Mrs. Hanson	77
47	2015	Sneaky Pete	Reverend Ethel Landry	75
48	2017	9JKL	Wrong Nana	64
49	2018	Impulse	Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones	76
50	2019	On Becoming a God in Central Florida	Mimi Waldenstock	65
51	2021	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Doris 'Mama' Boone	79
52	2021	Gossip Girl	Iris Lefferts	73
53	2022	This Fool	Beverly	77

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