Lois Smith
Acting
🎂 1930-11-03
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.
Cast credits(133)
Mrs. Dickerson
2005
Lucy Game
2013
Eunice Varick
1990
1950
Rebecca Tolliver
1999
Betty Bennett
2001
Jeannie
1953
Mildred Mancini
1994
1955
Mary Beth Berluti
1997
Allison Scavo
2004
Moira
1993
Betty Turner
2013
Libby Clayton
1961
Claire
2013
Fannie
2003
Marie Ganucci
1985
Dorothy Hermes
1985
Lisa Molloy
1948
Doris 'Mama' Boone
2021
1985
Iris Lefferts
2021
Adele Stackhouse
2008
1960
Dana
1960
Lucy Brown
1960
Gracie
1994
Esther Terranova
1961
Belinda Lacroix
2015
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
Mrs. Hanson
2015
Sara
1979
Dolores
2013
Reverend Ethel Landry
2015
(voice)
1988
1987
Jenny Musgrave
1953
Dawn Garrison
1958
Mimi Waldenstock
2019
Libby
1997
Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
2018
Mother
2001
Rose Sinclair
2004
Beverly
2022
Zoe Cannell
1970
Dr. Iris Hineman
2002
Aunt Meg
1996
1991
Sister Sarah Joan
2017
Miss Maude
1998
Mrs. Glenn
2016
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2021
1966
1959
D-Fens' Mother
1993
Mama Threadgoode
1991
Martha
1987
Helen
2025
Margaret Conlon
2015
Wrong Nana
2017
Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
1988
Clara
1983
Helen Jackson
2001
Ruth
2012
Helen's Mother
1995
Sara
1987
Betty
2022
The Grande Dame
2020
Anne
1955
Aunt Butch
2020
Aunt Mel
2012
Helen Bessolo
2006
Sophia
1995
Brontë's Mother
1990
Mrs. Prescott
1984
Miriam
2016
Ellie Silverstein
2004
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
2025
Partita Dupea
1970
Lucy Thompson
2002
Luluna
1996
Madge Wallace Gates
1995
Ma Joad
1991
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
2004
Dr. Imberman
2006
Lois Blair
2009
Sarah
1985
Margaret
1991
Kathy
1980
Marjorie
2017
Anita Cunningham
1976
Inge (as an older woman)
2005
Mrs. Axman
1980
Ginger
1999
Self
2014
Orna
1994
Elinore
1972
Mrs. Portman
2010
Mrs. Carnahan
1981
Spurs O'Brien
1955
Mrs. Bell
1992
Elizabeth
2006
Social Worker
2006
1992
Mrs. Ferriter
1998
Belle
2008
Abby
2008
Lou Wheaton
1993
Mother
2001
(voice)
1991
Mary Neal
1985
Jane Aldridge
1970
Mom
2012
Alice Todd
1991
voice
1992
Self
1988
Mare Spofford
1983
The Youngest Daughter (later)
2013
Helen Giles
1985
Cornelia
1980
Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
1970
1972
Evelyn
1967
1997
Helen Rounds
2003
Lureen
1992
Helen
2004
Harper Pitt
2020
Self
2005
Hilda
1960
Bertha Dorset
1981
