Lois Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 3, 1930 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- Topeka, Kansas, USA
- Credits
- 135
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
Grey's Anatomy
2005TV
Mrs. Dickerson
Minority Report
2002Movie
Dr. Iris Hineman
Lady Bird
2017Movie
Sister Sarah Joan
The Nice Guys
2016Movie
Mrs. Glenn
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Rebecca Tolliver
Falling Down
1993Movie
D-Fens' Mother
Filmography
The Gettysburg Address
2025Movie
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
Lightning Bug
2025Movie
Lydia
On the End
2025Movie
Trudie Ferreira
The Uninvited
2025Movie
Helen
Elsbeth
2024TV
Delores Feinn
Mack & Rita
2022Movie
Betty
This Fool
2022TV
Beverly
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021Movie
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
Gossip Girl
2021TV
Iris Lefferts
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021TV
Doris 'Mama' Boone
Uncle Frank
2020Movie
Aunt Butch
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020Movie
Harper Pitt
Tesla
2020Movie
The Grande Dame
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019TV
Mimi Waldenstock
Impulse
2018TV
Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
9JKL
2017TV
Wrong Nana
Lady Bird
2017Movie
Sister Sarah Joan
Marjorie Prime
2017Movie
Marjorie
The Comedian
2016Movie
Miriam
The Nice Guys
2016Movie
Mrs. Glenn
Sneaky Pete
2015TV
Reverend Ethel Landry
Grace and Frankie
2015TV
Mrs. Hanson
Younger
2015TV
Belinda Lacroix
Run All Night
2015Movie
Margaret Conlon
The Affair
2014TV
Mrs. Gunther
Showing Up
2014Movie
Self
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013Movie
The Youngest Daughter (later)
Mom
2013TV
Claire
The Blacklist
2013TV
Lucy Game
Ray Donovan
2013TV
Dolores
The Americans
2013TV
Betty Turner
Ruth & Erica
2012TV
Ruth
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012Movie
Aunt Mel
Roadie
2012Movie
Mom
Please Give
2010Movie
Mrs. Portman
A Dog Year
2009Movie
Lois Blair
Killshot
2008Movie
Lenore
True Blood
2008TV
Adele Stackhouse
Diminished Capacity
2008Movie
Belle
Turn the River
2008Movie
Abby
Army Wives
2007TV
Elsie
Griffin & Phoenix
2006Movie
Dr. Imberman
Hollywoodland
2006Movie
Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive
2006Movie
Elizabeth, Social Worker
Sweet Land
2005Movie
Inge (as an older woman)
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005Movie
Self
Grey's Anatomy
2005TV
Mrs. Dickerson
P.S.
2004Movie
Ellie Silverstein
Desperate Housewives
2004TV
Allison Scavo
LAX
2004TV
Rose Sinclair
Iron Jawed Angels
2004Movie
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
The Best Thief in the World
2004Movie
Helen
Cold Case
2003TV
Fannie
A Foreign Affair
2003Movie
Ma Adams
Red Betsy
2003Movie
Helen Rounds
Minority Report
2002Movie
Dr. Iris Hineman
The Laramie Project
2002Movie
Lucy Thompson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001TV
Betty Bennett
Powder Keg
2001Movie
Mother
The Hire
2001TV
Mother
The Pledge
2001Movie
Helen Jackson
Tumbleweeds
1999Movie
Ginger
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Rebecca Tolliver
A Will of their Own
1998TV
Miss Maude
The Eternal
1998Movie
Mrs. Ferriter
Hudson River Blues
1997Movie
Julia
Just Shoot Me!
1997TV
Libby
The Practice
1997TV
Mary Beth Berluti
Larger Than Life
1996Movie
Luluna
Twister
1996Movie
Aunt Meg
Dead Man Walking
1995Movie
Helen's Mother
How to Make an American Quilt
1995Movie
Sophia
Truman
1995Movie
Madge Wallace Gates
Touched by an Angel
1994TV
Mildred Mancini
ER
1994TV
Gracie
Holy Matrimony
1994Movie
Orna
Frasier
1993TV
Moira
Falling Down
1993Movie
D-Fens' Mother
Skylark
1993Movie
Lou Wheaton
Deadly Matrimony
1992Movie
The Donner Party
1992Movie
voice
Keep the Change
1992Movie
Lureen
Hard Promises
1992Movie
Mrs. Bell
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991Movie
Mama Threadgoode
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991Movie
Alice Todd
Switched at Birth
1991TV
Margaret
The Grapes of Wrath
1991Movie
Ma Joad
Coney Island
1991Movie
(voice)
Good Sports
1991TV
Mrs. Tannen
Green Card
1990Movie
Brontë's Mother
Law & Order
1990TV
Eunice Varick
Hello Actors Studio
1988Movie
Self
American Experience
1988TV
(voice)
Midnight Run
1988Movie
Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
thirtysomething
1987TV
Fatal Attraction
1987Movie
Martha
Black Widow
1987Movie
Sara
Doubletake
1985Movie
Sarah
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985Movie
Mary Neal
Spenser: For Hire
1985TV
The Equalizer
1985TV
Marie Ganucci, Dorothy Hermes
Twisted
1985Movie
Helen Giles
Reckless
1984Movie
Mrs. Prescott
Reuben, Reuben
1983Movie
Mare Spofford
Rage of Angels
1983TV
Clara
American Playhouse
1982TV
Ma Joad
Four Friends
1981Movie
Mrs. Carnahan
The House of Mirth
1981Movie
Bertha Dorset
Resurrection
1980Movie
Kathy
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980Movie
Cornelia
Foxes
1980Movie
Mrs. Axman
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Sara
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976Movie
Anita Cunningham
Up the Sandbox
1972Movie
Elinore
Particular Men
1972Movie
Anne Starr
Dragon Country
1970Movie
Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Five Easy Pieces
1970Movie
Partita Dupea
The Way We Live Now
1970Movie
Jane Aldridge
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967Movie
Evelyn
CBS Playhouse
1966TV
Evelyn
Dr. Kildare
1961TV
Libby Clayton
The Defenders
1961TV
Esther Terranova
Route 66
1960TV
Dana, Lucy Brown
The Master Builder
1960Movie
Hilda
Startime
1959TV
Cindy
Naked City
1958TV
Dawn Garrison
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Nominee / Performer, Self - Nominee
Matinee Theater
1955TV
Strange Lady in Town
1955Movie
Spurs O'Brien
East of Eden
1955Movie
Anne
The United States Steel Hour
1953TV
Jeannie
Letter to Loretta
1953TV
Jenny Musgrave
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950TV
Studio One
1948TV
Lisa Molloy
The Steel Harp
Movie
Hanna