Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 03, 1930
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Credits
134 titles
Lois Smith
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Gettysburg Address
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
On the End
Trudie Ferreira
Lightning Bug
Lydia
The Uninvited
Helen
Elsbeth
Delores Feinn
This Fool
Beverly
Mack & Rita
Betty
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
Gossip Girl
Iris Lefferts
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Doris 'Mama' Boone
Uncle Frank
Aunt Butch
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Harper Pitt
Tesla
The Grande Dame
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Mimi Waldenstock
Impulse
Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
9JKL
Wrong Nana
Lady Bird
Sister Sarah Joan
Marjorie Prime
Marjorie
The Comedian
Miriam
The Nice Guys
Mrs. Glenn
Sneaky Pete
Reverend Ethel Landry
Grace and Frankie
Mrs. Hanson
Younger
Belinda Lacroix
Run All Night
Margaret Conlon
The Affair
Mrs. Gunther
Showing Up
Self
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
The Youngest Daughter (later)
The Blacklist
Lucy Game
Mom
Claire
Ray Donovan
Dolores
The Americans
Betty Turner
Ruth & Erica
Ruth
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Aunt Mel
Roadie
Mom
Please Give
Mrs. Portman
A Dog Year
Lois Blair
True Blood
Adele Stackhouse
Diminished Capacity
Belle
Turn the River
Abby
Army Wives
Elsie
Griffin & Phoenix
Dr. Imberman
Hollywoodland
Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive
Elizabeth
Sweet Land
Inge (as an older woman)
James Dean: Sense Memories
Self
Grey's Anatomy
Mrs. Dickerson
P.S.
Ellie Silverstein
Desperate Housewives
Allison Scavo
LAX
Rose Sinclair
Iron Jawed Angels
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw