Lois Smith
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-11-03 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
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.
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Known For
Acting
The Steel Harp
as Hanna
(2025)
The Uninvited
as Helen
(2025)
The Gettysburg Address
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
(2025)
Lightning Bug
as Lydia
(2025)
On the End
as Trudie Ferreira
(2022)
Mack & Rita
as Betty
(2021)
The French Dispatch
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
(2020)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Harper Pitt
(2020)
Tesla
as The Grande Dame
(2020)
Uncle Frank
as Aunt Butch
(2017)
Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan
(2017)
Marjorie Prime
as Marjorie
(2016)
The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn
(2016)
The Comedian
as Miriam
(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)
(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)
Hollywoodland
as Helen Bessolo
(2006)
Little Fugitive
as Elizabeth
(2006)
Little Fugitive
as Social Worker
(2006)
Griffin & Phoenix
as Dr. Imberman
(2005)
Sweet Land
as Inge (as an older woman)
(2005)
James Dean: Sense Memories
as Self
(2004)
Iron Jawed Angels
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
(2004)
P.S.
as Ellie Silverstein
(2004)
The Best Thief in the World
as Helen
(2003)
Red Betsy
as Helen Rounds
(2002)
Minority Report
as Dr. Iris Hineman
(2002)
The Laramie Project
as Lucy Thompson
(2001)
The Pledge
as Helen Jackson
(2001)
Powder Keg
as Mother
(1999)
Tumbleweeds
as Ginger
(1998)
The Eternal
as Mrs. Ferriter
(1997)
(1996)
Twister
as Aunt Meg
(1996)
Larger Than Life
as Luluna
(1995)
How to Make an American Quilt
as Sophia
(1995)
Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother
(1995)
Truman
as Madge Wallace Gates
(1994)
Holy Matrimony
as Orna
(1993)
Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother
(1993)
Skylark
as Lou Wheaton
(1992)
Hard Promises
as Mrs. Bell
(1992)
Keep the Change
as Lureen
(1992)
The Donner Party
as voice
(1992)
(1991)
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
as Alice Todd
(1991)
The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
(1991)
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode
(1991)
Coney Island
as (voice)
(1991)
Switched at Birth
as Margaret
(1990)
Green Card
as Brontë's Mother
(1988)
Midnight Run
as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
(1988)
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
(1987)
Fatal Attraction
as Martha
(1987)
Black Widow
as Sara
(1985)
Doubletake
as Sarah
(1985)
Twisted
as Helen Giles
(1985)
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Mary Neal
(1984)
Reckless
as Mrs. Prescott
(1983)
Reuben, Reuben
as Mare Spofford
(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
(1976)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
as Anita Cunningham
(1972)
Up the Sandbox
as Elinore
(1972)
(1970)
Five Easy Pieces
as Partita Dupea
(1970)
Dragon Country
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
(1970)
The Way We Live Now
as Jane Aldridge
(1967)
(1960)
The Master Builder
as Hilda
(1955)
East of Eden
as Anne
(1955)
Strange Lady in Town
as Spurs O'Brien
Crew
(1997)
Eye of God
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