Lois Smith
Born: 1930-11-03 in Topeka, Kansas, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Uninvited as Helen
- The Gettysburg Address as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
- On the End as Trudie Ferreira
- Lightning Bug as Lydia
2024
- Elsbeth as Delores Feinn
2022
- This Fool as Beverly
- Mack & Rita as Betty
2021
- Law & Order: Organized Crime as Doris 'Mama' Boone
- Gossip Girl as Iris Lefferts
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2020
- Uncle Frank as Aunt Butch
- Tesla as The Grande Dame
- The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Harper Pitt
2019
- On Becoming a God in Central Florida as Mimi Waldenstock
2018
- Impulse as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
2017
- Lady Bird as Sister Sarah Joan
- 9JKL as Wrong Nana
- Marjorie Prime as Marjorie
2016
- The Nice Guys as Mrs. Glenn
- The Comedian as Miriam
2015
- Younger as Belinda Lacroix
- Grace and Frankie as Mrs. Hanson
- Sneaky Pete as Reverend Ethel Landry
- Run All Night as Margaret Conlon
2014
- The Affair as Mrs. Gunther
- Showing Up as Self
2013
- The Blacklist as Lucy Game
- Mom as Claire
- The Americans as Betty Turner
- Ray Donovan as Dolores
- The Man Who Came Out Only at Night as The Youngest Daughter (later)
2012
- Ruth & Erica as Ruth
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Aunt Mel
- Roadie as Mom
2010
- Please Give as Mrs. Portman
2009
- A Dog Year as Lois Blair
2008
- True Blood as Adele Stackhouse
- Turn the River as Abby
- Diminished Capacity as Belle
2007
- Army Wives as Elsie
2006
- Hollywoodland as Helen Bessolo
- Griffin & Phoenix as Dr. Imberman
- Little Fugitive as Elizabeth
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Mrs. Dickerson
- Sweet Land as Inge (as an older woman)
- James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
2004
- Desperate Housewives as Allison Scavo
- LAX as Rose Sinclair
- Iron Jawed Angels as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
- P.S. as Ellie Silverstein
- The Best Thief in the World as Helen
2002
- Minority Report as Dr. Iris Hineman
- The Laramie Project as Lucy Thompson
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Betty Bennett
- The Hire as Mother
- The Pledge as Helen Jackson
- Powder Keg as Mother
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rebecca Tolliver
- Tumbleweeds as Ginger
1998
- A Will of their Own as Miss Maude
- The Eternal as Mrs. Ferriter
1997
- The Practice as Mary Beth Berluti
- Just Shoot Me! as Libby
- Eye of God ... (Thanks)
- Hudson River Blues
1996
- Twister as Aunt Meg
- Larger Than Life as Luluna
1995
- Dead Man Walking as Helen's Mother
- How to Make an American Quilt as Sophia
- Truman as Madge Wallace Gates
1994
- ER as Gracie
- Touched by an Angel as Mildred Mancini
- Holy Matrimony as Orna
1993
- Frasier as Moira
- Falling Down as D-Fens' Mother
- Skylark as Lou Wheaton
1992
- Deadly Matrimony
- Hard Promises as Mrs. Bell
- Keep the Change as Lureen
- The Donner Party as voice
1991
- Fried Green Tomatoes as Mama Threadgoode
- Good Sports as Mrs. Tannen
- Switched at Birth as Margaret
- The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- Coney Island as (voice)
- White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Alice Todd
1990
- Law & Order as Eunice Varick
- Green Card as Brontë's Mother
1988
- American Experience as (voice)
- Midnight Run as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
- Hello Actors Studio as Self
1987
- thirtysomething
- Fatal Attraction as Martha
- Black Widow as Sara
1985
- The Equalizer as Marie Ganucci
- Spenser: For Hire
- Doubletake as Sarah
- The Execution of Raymond Graham as Mary Neal
- Twisted as Helen Giles
1984
- Reckless as Mrs. Prescott
1983
- Rage of Angels as Clara
- Reuben, Reuben as Mare Spofford
1981
- Four Friends as Mrs. Carnahan
- The House of Mirth as Bertha Dorset
1980
- Foxes as Mrs. Axman
- Resurrection as Kathy
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as Cornelia
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Sara
1976
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Anita Cunningham
1972
- Up the Sandbox as Elinore
- Particular Men
1970
- Five Easy Pieces as Partita Dupea
- Dragon Country as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
- The Way We Live Now as Jane Aldridge
1967
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night as Evelyn
1966
- CBS Playhouse as Evelyn
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Libby Clayton
- The Defenders as Esther Terranova
1960
- Route 66
- The Master Builder as Hilda
1959
- Startime as Cindy
1958
- Naked City as Dawn Garrison
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee / Performer
1955
- Matinee Theater
- East of Eden as Anne
- Strange Lady in Town as Spurs O'Brien
1953
- The United States Steel Hour as Jeannie
- Letter to Loretta as Jenny Musgrave
1948
- Studio One as Lisa Molloy