
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
Credits
- 2025 · The Gettysburg Address as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
- 2025 · The Uninvited as Helen
- 2022 · This Fool as Beverly
- 2022 · Mack & Rita as Betty
- 2021 · The French Dispatch as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
- 2021 · Gossip Girl as Iris Lefferts
- 2021 · Law & Order: Organized Crime as Doris 'Mama' Boone
- 2020 · Uncle Frank as Aunt Butch
- 2017 · Marjorie Prime as Marjorie
- 2016 · The Comedian as Miriam
- 2012 · Ruth & Erica as Ruth
- 2012 · The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Aunt Mel
- 2010 · Please Give as Mrs. Portman
- 2009 · A Dog Year as Lois Blair
- 2008 · Diminished Capacity as Belle
- 2004 · P.S. as Ellie Silverstein
- 2004 · Iron Jawed Angels as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
- 2002 · The Laramie Project as Lucy Thompson
- 2001 · Powder Keg as Mother
- 1999 · Tumbleweeds as Ginger
- 1998 · A Will of their Own as Miss Maude
- 1998 · The Eternal as Mrs. Ferriter
- 1996 · Larger Than Life as Luluna
- 1995 · How to Make an American Quilt as Sophia
- 1995 · Truman as Madge Wallace Gates
- 1994 · Holy Matrimony as Orna
- 1992 · Deadly Matrimony as
- 1992 · Hard Promises as Mrs. Bell
- 1991 · Switched at Birth as Margaret
- 1990 · Green Card as Brontë's Mother
- 1985 · Doubletake as Sarah
- 1984 · Reckless as Mrs. Prescott
- 1983 · Rage of Angels as Clara
- 1980 · Resurrection as Kathy
- 1976 · Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Anita Cunningham
- 1972 · Up the Sandbox as Elinore
- 1970 · Five Easy Pieces as Partita Dupea
- Future · The Steel Harp as Hanna
- 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Harper Pitt
- 2020 · Tesla as The Grande Dame
- 2019 · On Becoming a God in Central Florida as Mimi Waldenstock
- 2018 · Impulse as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
- 2017 · 9JKL as Wrong Nana
- 2017 · Lady Bird as Sister Sarah Joan
- 2016 · The Nice Guys as Mrs. Glenn
- 2015 · Sneaky Pete as Reverend Ethel Landry
- 2015 · Grace and Frankie as Mrs. Hanson
- 2015 · Younger as Belinda Lacroix
- 2015 · Run All Night as Margaret Conlon
- 2014 · Showing Up as Self
- 2013 · The Man Who Came Out Only at Night as The Youngest Daughter (later)
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Lucy Game
- 2013 · Mom as Claire
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Dolores
- 2013 · The Americans as Betty Turner
- 2012 · Roadie as Mom
- 2008 · True Blood as Adele Stackhouse
- 2008 · Turn the River as Abby
- 2006 · Griffin & Phoenix as Dr. Imberman
- 2006 · Hollywoodland as Helen Bessolo
- 2006 · Little Fugitive as Elizabeth
- 2006 · Little Fugitive as Social Worker
- 2005 · Sweet Land as Inge (as an older woman)
- 2005 · James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Mrs. Dickerson
- 2004 · Desperate Housewives as Allison Scavo
- 2004 · LAX as Rose Sinclair
- 2004 · The Best Thief in the World as Helen
- 2003 · Cold Case as Fannie
- 2003 · Red Betsy as Helen Rounds
- 2002 · Minority Report as Dr. Iris Hineman
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Betty Bennett
- 2001 · The Hire as Mother
- 2001 · The Pledge as Helen Jackson
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rebecca Tolliver
- 1997 · Hudson River Blues as
- 1997 · The Practice as Mary Beth Berluti
- 1997 · Just Shoot Me! as Libby
- 1996 · Twister as Aunt Meg
- 1995 · Dead Man Walking as Helen's Mother
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Mildred Mancini
- 1994 · ER as Gracie
- 1993 · Frasier as Moira
- 1993 · Falling Down as D-Fens' Mother
- 1993 · Skylark as Lou Wheaton
- 1992 · The Donner Party as voice
- 1992 · Keep the Change as Lureen
- 1991 · Fried Green Tomatoes as Mama Threadgoode
- 1991 · White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Alice Todd
- 1991 · The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- 1991 · Coney Island as (voice)
- 1991 · Good Sports as
- 1990 · Law & Order as Eunice Varick
- 1988 · Hello Actors Studio as Self
- 1988 · American Experience as (voice)
- 1988 · Midnight Run as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
- 1987 · thirtysomething as
- 1987 · Fatal Attraction as Martha
- 1987 · Black Widow as Sara
- 1985 · The Execution of Raymond Graham as Mary Neal
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Marie Ganucci
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Dorothy Hermes
- 1985 · Twisted as Helen Giles
- 1983 · Reuben, Reuben as Mare Spofford
- 1981 · Four Friends as Mrs. Carnahan
- 1981 · The House of Mirth as Bertha Dorset
- 1980 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as Cornelia
- 1980 · Foxes as Mrs. Axman
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Sara
- 1972 · Particular Men as
- 1970 · The Way We Live Now as Jane Aldridge
- 1970 · Somerset as Zoe Cannell
- 1970 · Dragon Country as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
- 1967 · Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night as Evelyn
- 1966 · CBS Playhouse as
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Libby Clayton
- 1961 · The Defenders as Esther Terranova
- 1960 · Route 66 as
- 1960 · Route 66 as Dana
- 1960 · Route 66 as Lucy Brown
- 1960 · The Master Builder as Hilda
- 1959 · Startime as
- 1958 · Naked City as Dawn Garrison
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee/Performer
- 1955 · Matinee Theater as
- 1955 · Strange Lady in Town as Spurs O'Brien
- 1955 · East of Eden as Anne
- 1953 · The United States Steel Hour as Jeannie
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Jenny Musgrave
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1948 · Studio One as Lisa Molloy