Lois Smith
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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Fotos
Películas (83)
The Gettysburg Address
2025 · Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
Lightning Bug
2025 · Lydia
On the End
2025 · Trudie Ferreira
The Uninvited
2025 · Helen
Mack & Rita
2022 · Betty
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
Uncle Frank
2020 · Aunt Butch
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020 · Harper Pitt
Tesla
2020 · The Grande Dame
Lady Bird
2017 · Sister Sarah Joan
Marjorie Prime
2017 · Marjorie
The Comedian
2016 · Miriam
The Nice Guys
2016 · Mrs. Glenn
Run All Night
2015 · Margaret Conlon
Showing Up
2014 · Self
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013 · The Youngest Daughter (later)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012 · Aunt Mel
Roadie
2012 · Mom
Please Give
2010 · Mrs. Portman
A Dog Year
2009 · Lois Blair
Killshot
2008 · Lenore
Diminished Capacity
2008 · Belle
Turn the River
2008 · Abby
Griffin & Phoenix
2006 · Dr. Imberman
Hollywoodland
2006 · Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive
2006 · Elizabeth, Social Worker
Sweet Land
2005 · Inge (as an older woman)
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005 · Self
P.S.
2004 · Ellie Silverstein
Iron Jawed Angels
2004 · Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
The Best Thief in the World
2004 · Helen
A Foreign Affair
2003 · Ma Adams
Red Betsy
2003 · Helen Rounds
Minority Report
2002 · Dr. Iris Hineman
The Laramie Project
2002 · Lucy Thompson
Powder Keg
2001 · Mother
The Pledge
2001 · Helen Jackson
Tumbleweeds
1999 · Ginger
The Eternal
1998 · Mrs. Ferriter
Hudson River Blues
1997 · Julia
Eye of God
1997 · Thanks
Larger Than Life
1996 · Luluna
Twister
1996 · Aunt Meg
Dead Man Walking
1995 · Helen's Mother
How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · Sophia
Truman
1995 · Madge Wallace Gates
Holy Matrimony
1994 · Orna
Falling Down
1993 · D-Fens' Mother
Skylark
1993 · Lou Wheaton
Deadly Matrimony
1992
The Donner Party
1992 · voice
Keep the Change
1992 · Lureen
Hard Promises
1992 · Mrs. Bell
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Mama Threadgoode
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991 · Alice Todd
The Grapes of Wrath
1991 · Ma Joad
Coney Island
1991 · (voice)
Green Card
1990 · Brontë's Mother
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Self
Midnight Run
1988 · Mrs. Nelson
Fatal Attraction
1987 · Martha
Black Widow
1987 · Sara
Doubletake
1985 · Sarah
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985 · Mary Neal
Twisted
1985 · Helen Giles
Reckless
1984 · Mrs. Prescott
Reuben, Reuben
1983 · Mare Spofford
Four Friends
1981 · Mrs. Carnahan
The House of Mirth
1981 · Bertha Dorset
Resurrection
1980 · Kathy
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980 · Cornelia
Foxes
1980 · Mrs. Axman
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976 · Anita Cunningham
Up the Sandbox
1972 · Elinore
Particular Men
1972 · Anne Starr
Dragon Country
1970 · Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Five Easy Pieces
1970 · Partita Dupea
The Way We Live Now
1970 · Jane Aldridge
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967 · Evelyn
The Master Builder
1960 · Hilda
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Spurs O'Brien
East of Eden
1955 · Anne
The Steel Harp
· Hanna
Series (53)
Elsbeth
2024 · Delores Feinn
This Fool
2022 · Beverly
Gossip Girl
2021 · Iris Lefferts
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021 · Doris 'Mama' Boone
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019 · Mimi Waldenstock
Impulse
2018 · Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
9JKL
2017 · Wrong Nana
Sneaky Pete
2015 · Reverend Ethel Landry
Grace and Frankie
2015 · Mrs. Hanson
Younger
2015 · Belinda Lacroix
The Affair
2014 · Mrs. Gunther
Mom
2013 · Claire
The Blacklist
2013 · Lucy Game
Ray Donovan
2013 · Dolores
The Americans
2013 · Betty Turner
Ruth & Erica
2012 · Ruth
True Blood
2008 · Adele Stackhouse
Army Wives
2007 · Elsie
Anatomía según Grey
2005 · Mrs. Dickerson
Desperate Housewives
2004 · Allison Scavo
LAX
2004 · Rose Sinclair
Cold Case
2003 · Fannie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Betty Bennett
The Hire
2001 · Mother
La Ley y el Orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
1999 · Rebecca Tolliver
A Will of their Own
1998 · Miss Maude
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · Libby
The Practice
1997 · Mary Beth Berluti
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Mildred Mancini
ER
1994 · Gracie
Frasier
1993 · Moira
Switched at Birth
1991 · Margaret
Good Sports
1991 · Mrs. Tannen
La Ley y el Orden
1990 · Eunice Varick
American Experience
1988 · (voice)
thirtysomething
1987
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
1985 · Marie Ganucci, Dorothy Hermes
Rage of Angels
1983 · Clara
American Playhouse
1982 · Ma Joad
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Sara
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Evelyn
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Libby Clayton
The Defenders
1961 · Esther Terranova
Route 66
1960 · Dana, Lucy Brown
Startime
1959 · Cindy
Naked City
1958 · Dawn Garrison
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee / Performer, Self - Nominee
Matinee Theater
1955
The United States Steel Hour
1953 · Jeannie
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Jenny Musgrave
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Studio One
1948 · Lisa Molloy