
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 · 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 · Tesla as The Grande Dame
- 2018 · Impulse as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
- 2017 · Lady Bird as Sister Sarah Joan
- 2017 · Marjorie Prime as Marjorie
- 2016 · The Comedian as Miriam
- 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
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Lucy Game
- 2013 · Mom as Claire
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Dolores
- 2013 · The Americans as Betty Turner
- 2008 · True Blood as Adele Stackhouse
- 2007 · Army Wives as Elsie
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Mrs. Dickerson
- 2004 · Desperate Housewives as Allison Scavo
- 2003 · Cold Case as Fannie
- 2002 · Minority Report as Dr. Iris Hineman
- 2002 · The Laramie Project as Lucy Thompson
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Betty Bennett
- 2001 · The Pledge as Helen Jackson
- 1999 · Tumbleweeds as Ginger
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rebecca Tolliver
- 1997 · The Practice as Mary Beth Berluti
- 1997 · Just Shoot Me! as Libby
- 1996 · Twister as Aunt Meg
- 1995 · How to Make an American Quilt as Sophia
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Mildred Mancini
- 1994 · ER as Gracie
- 1993 · Frasier as Moira
- 1993 · Falling Down as D-Fens' Mother
- 1991 · White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Alice Todd
- 1991 · The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- 1990 · Law & Order as Eunice Varick
- 1988 · American Experience as (voice)
- 1988 · Midnight Run as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
- 1987 · thirtysomething as
- 1987 · Black Widow as Sara
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Marie Ganucci
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Dorothy Hermes
- 1984 · Reckless as Mrs. Prescott
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Sara
- 1976 · Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Anita Cunningham
- 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
- 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
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1948 · Studio One as Lisa Molloy
- Future · The Steel Harp as Hanna
- 2025 · Lightning Bug as Lydia
- 2025 · On the End as Trudie Ferreira
- 2022 · This Fool as Beverly
- 2020 · Uncle Frank as Aunt Butch
- 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Harper Pitt
- 2019 · On Becoming a God in Central Florida as Mimi Waldenstock
- 2017 · 9JKL as Wrong Nana
- 2014 · Showing Up as Self
- 2013 · The Man Who Came Out Only at Night as The Youngest Daughter (later)
- 2012 · Ruth & Erica as Ruth
- 2012 · The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Aunt Mel
- 2012 · Roadie as Mom
- 2010 · Please Give as Mrs. Portman
- 2009 · A Dog Year as Lois Blair
- 2008 · Diminished Capacity as Belle
- 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
- 2004 · P.S. as Ellie Silverstein
- 2004 · LAX as Rose Sinclair
- 2004 · Iron Jawed Angels as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
- 2004 · The Best Thief in the World as Helen
- 2003 · Red Betsy as Helen Rounds
- 2001 · Powder Keg as Mother
- 2001 · The Hire as Mother
- 1998 · A Will of their Own as Miss Maude
- 1998 · The Eternal as Mrs. Ferriter
- 1997 · Hudson River Blues as
- 1996 · Larger Than Life as Luluna
- 1995 · Dead Man Walking as Helen's Mother
- 1995 · Truman as Madge Wallace Gates
- 1994 · Holy Matrimony as Orna
- 1993 · Skylark as Lou Wheaton
- 1992 · Deadly Matrimony as
- 1992 · The Donner Party as voice
- 1992 · Keep the Change as Lureen
- 1992 · Hard Promises as Mrs. Bell
- 1991 · Fried Green Tomatoes as Mama Threadgoode
- 1991 · Switched at Birth as Margaret
- 1991 · Coney Island as (voice)
- 1991 · Good Sports as
- 1990 · Green Card as Brontë's Mother
- 1988 · Hello Actors Studio as Self
- 1987 · Fatal Attraction as Martha
- 1985 · Doubletake as Sarah
- 1985 · The Execution of Raymond Graham as Mary Neal
- 1985 · Twisted as Helen Giles
- 1983 · Reuben, Reuben as Mare Spofford
- 1983 · Rage of Angels as Clara
- 1981 · Four Friends as Mrs. Carnahan
- 1981 · The House of Mirth as Bertha Dorset
- 1980 · Resurrection as Kathy
- 1980 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as Cornelia
- 1980 · Foxes as Mrs. Axman
- 1972 · Up the Sandbox as Elinore
- 1972 · Particular Men as
- 1970 · Dragon Country as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
- 1970 · Five Easy Pieces as Partita Dupea
- 1970 · The Way We Live Now as Jane Aldridge
- 1967 · Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night as Evelyn
- 1966 · CBS Playhouse as
- 1960 · The Master Builder as Hilda
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Jenny Musgrave