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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Dr. Iris Hineman
Minority Report
Anne
East of Eden
Helen Bessolo
Hollywoodland
Aunt Meg
Twister
Helen's Mother
Dead Man Walking
Orna
Holy Matrimony
Inge (as an older woman)
Sweet Land
Anita Cunningham
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Sophia
How to Make an American Quilt
Ellie Silverstein
P.S.
Partita Dupea
Five Easy Pieces
Lois Blair
A Dog Year
Abby
Turn the River
Lou Wheaton
Skylark
Helen
The Uninvited
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
Iron Jawed Angels
Sara
Black Widow
Aunt Mel
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Mrs. Ferriter
The Eternal
Elizabeth
Little Fugitive
Helen
The Best Thief in the World
Mom
Roadie
Spurs O'Brien
Strange Lady in Town
Helen Giles
Twisted
voice
The Donner Party
Mary Neal
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Sarah
Doubletake
Mama Threadgoode
Fried Green Tomatoes
Self
Showing Up
Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Dragon Country
Helen Rounds
Red Betsy
Self
Hello Actors Studio
Social Worker
Little Fugitive
(voice)
Coney Island
D-Fens' Mother
Falling Down
The Steel Harp
Evelyn
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Lucy Thompson
The Laramie Project
Mrs. Portman
Please Give
Self
James Dean: Sense Memories
Margaret Conlon
Run All Night
Bertha Dorset
The House of Mirth
Brontë's Mother
Green Card
Mother
Powder Keg
Martha
Fatal Attraction
Luluna
Larger Than Life
Mrs. Glenn
The Nice Guys
Dr. Imberman
Griffin & Phoenix
Kathy
Resurrection
Marjorie
Marjorie Prime
Particular Men
Miriam
The Comedian
The Youngest Daughter (later)
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
Mrs. Bell
Hard Promises
Sister Sarah Joan
Lady Bird
Mare Spofford
Reuben, Reuben
Mrs. Axman
Foxes
Madge Wallace Gates
Truman
Elinore
Up the Sandbox
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
The French Dispatch
Ginger
Tumbleweeds
Helen Jackson
The Pledge
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
The Gettysburg Address
Hilda
The Master Builder
Aunt Butch
Uncle Frank
Margaret
Switched at Birth
Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
Midnight Run
Cornelia
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Deadly Matrimony
The Grande Dame
Tesla
Mrs. Carnahan
Four Friends
Alice Todd
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Harper Pitt
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Ma Joad
The Grapes of Wrath
Betty
Mack & Rita
Mrs. Prescott
Reckless
Jane Aldridge
The Way We Live Now
Lureen
Keep the Change
Hudson River Blues
Belle
Diminished Capacity
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
80
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-11-03
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
Lois Arlene Humbert