Lois Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 3, 1930
- Birthplace
- Topeka, Kansas, USA
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.
Filmography
- The Steel Harp
The Steel Harp TBA
as Hanna
The Gettysburg Address 2025
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
On the End 2025
as Trudie Ferreira
Lightning Bug 2025
as Lydia
The Uninvited 2025
as Helen
Mack & Rita 2022
as Betty
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 2021
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
Uncle Frank 2020
as Aunt Butch
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America 2020
as Harper Pitt
Tesla 2020
as The Grande Dame
Lady Bird 2017
as Sister Sarah Joan
Marjorie Prime 2017
as Marjorie
The Comedian 2016
as Miriam
The Nice Guys 2016
as Mrs. Glenn
Run All Night 2015
as Margaret Conlon
Showing Up 2014
as Self
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night 2013
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green 2012
as Aunt Mel
Roadie 2012
as Mom
Please Give 2010
as Mrs. Portman
A Dog Year 2009
as Lois Blair
Killshot 2008
as Lenore
Diminished Capacity 2008
as Belle
Turn the River 2008
as Abby
Griffin & Phoenix 2006
as Dr. Imberman
Hollywoodland 2006
as Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive 2006
as Elizabeth, as Social Worker
Sweet Land 2005
as Inge (as an older woman)
James Dean: Sense Memories 2005
as Self
P.S. 2004
as Ellie Silverstein
Iron Jawed Angels 2004
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
The Best Thief in the World 2004
as Helen
A Foreign Affair 2003
as Ma Adams
Red Betsy 2003
as Helen Rounds
Minority Report 2002
as Dr. Iris Hineman
The Laramie Project 2002
as Lucy Thompson
Powder Keg 2001
as Mother
The Pledge 2001
as Helen Jackson
Tumbleweeds 1999
as Ginger
The Eternal 1998
as Mrs. Ferriter
Hudson River Blues 1997
as Julia
Eye of God 1997
Thanks
Larger Than Life 1996
as Luluna
Twister 1996
as Aunt Meg
Dead Man Walking 1995
as Helen's Mother
How to Make an American Quilt 1995
as Sophia
Truman 1995
as Madge Wallace Gates
Holy Matrimony 1994
as Orna
Falling Down 1993
as D-Fens' Mother
Skylark 1993
as Lou Wheaton
Deadly Matrimony 1992
Actor
The Donner Party 1992
as voice
Keep the Change 1992
as Lureen
Hard Promises 1992
as Mrs. Bell
Fried Green Tomatoes 1991
as Mama Threadgoode
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd 1991
as Alice Todd
The Grapes of Wrath 1991
as Ma Joad
Coney Island 1991
as (voice)
Green Card 1990
as Brontë's Mother
Hello Actors Studio 1988
as Self
Midnight Run 1988
as Mrs. Nelson
Fatal Attraction 1987
as Martha
Black Widow 1987
as Sara
Doubletake 1985
as Sarah
The Execution of Raymond Graham 1985
as Mary Neal
Twisted 1985
as Helen Giles
Reckless 1984
as Mrs. Prescott
Reuben, Reuben 1983
as Mare Spofford
Four Friends 1981
as Mrs. Carnahan
- The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 1981
as Bertha Dorset
Resurrection 1980
as Kathy
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1980
as Cornelia
Foxes 1980
as Mrs. Axman
Next Stop, Greenwich Village 1976
as Anita Cunningham
Up the Sandbox 1972
as Elinore
Particular Men 1972
as Anne Starr
Dragon Country 1970
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Five Easy Pieces 1970
as Partita Dupea
The Way We Live Now 1970
as Jane Aldridge
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 1967
as Evelyn
The Master Builder 1960
as Hilda
Strange Lady in Town 1955
as Spurs O'Brien
East of Eden 1955
as Anne
Credits from TMDB.