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