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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Minority Report
(Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse])
East of Eden
(Anne)
Hollywoodland
(Helen Bessolo)
Twister
(Aunt Meg)
Dead Man Walking
(Helen's Mother)
Holy Matrimony
(Orna)
Sweet Land
(Inge (as an older woman))
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
(Anita Cunningham)
How to Make an American Quilt
(Sophia)
P.S.
(Ellie Silverstein)
Five Easy Pieces
(Partita Dupea)
A Dog Year
(Lois Blair)
Turn the River
(Abby)
Skylark
(Lou Wheaton)
The Uninvited
(Helen)
Iron Jawed Angels
(Reverend Anna Howard Shaw)
Black Widow
(Sara)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
(Aunt Mel)
The Eternal
(Mrs. Ferriter)
Little Fugitive
(Elizabeth)
The Best Thief in the World
(Helen)
Roadie
(Mom)
Strange Lady in Town
(Spurs O'Brien)
Twisted
(Helen Giles)
The Donner Party
(voice)
The Execution of Raymond Graham
(Mary Neal)
Doubletake
(Sarah)
Fried Green Tomatoes
(Mama Threadgoode)
Showing Up
(Self)
Dragon Country
(Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen"))
Red Betsy
(Helen Rounds)
Hello Actors Studio
(Self)
Little Fugitive
(Social Worker)
Coney Island
((voice))
Falling Down
(D-Fens' Mother)
The Steel Harp
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
(Evelyn)
The Laramie Project
(Lucy Thompson)
Please Give
(Mrs. Portman)
James Dean: Sense Memories
(Self)
Run All Night
(Margaret Conlon)
The House of Mirth
(Bertha Dorset)
Green Card
(Brontë's Mother)
Powder Keg
(Mother)
Fatal Attraction
(Martha)
Larger Than Life
(Luluna)
The Nice Guys
(Mrs. Glenn)
Griffin & Phoenix
(Dr. Imberman)
Resurrection
(Kathy)
Marjorie Prime
(Marjorie)
Particular Men
The Comedian
(Miriam)
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
(The Youngest Daughter (later))
Hard Promises
(Mrs. Bell)
Lady Bird
(Sister Sarah Joan)
Reuben, Reuben
(Mare Spofford)
Foxes
(Mrs. Axman)
Truman
(Madge Wallace Gates)
Up the Sandbox
(Elinore)
The French Dispatch
(Upshur 'Maw' Clampette)
Tumbleweeds
(Ginger)
The Pledge
(Helen Jackson)
The Gettysburg Address
(Elizabeth Crawford (voice))
The Master Builder
(Hilda)
Uncle Frank
(Aunt Butch)
Switched at Birth
(Margaret)
Midnight Run
(Mrs. Nelson)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
(Cornelia)
Deadly Matrimony
Tesla
(The Grande Dame)
Four Friends
(Mrs. Carnahan)
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
(Alice Todd)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
(Harper Pitt)
The Grapes of Wrath
(Ma Joad)
Mack & Rita
(Betty)
Reckless
(Mrs. Prescott)
The Way We Live Now
(Jane Aldridge)
Keep the Change
(Lureen)
Hudson River Blues
Spenser: For Hire
thirtysomething
Touched by an Angel
(Mildred Mancini)
Cold Case
(Fannie)
Route 66
Tales of the Unexpected
(Sara)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(Rebecca Tolliver)
Naked City
(Dawn Garrison)
Frasier
(Moira)
The Practice
LAX
(Rose Sinclair)
Studio One
(Lisa Molloy)
The Equalizer
(Marie Ganucci)
Just Shoot Me!
(Libby)
ER
(Gracie)
Somerset
(Zoe Cannell)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(Betty Bennett)
True Blood
(Adele Stackhouse)
Matinee Theater
Law & Order
(Eunice Varick)
CBS Playhouse
Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Kildare
(Libby Clayton)
The Defenders
(Esther Terranova)
Letter to Loretta
(Jenny Musgrave)
Startime
Younger
(Belinda Lacroix)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Mom
(Claire)
Grey's Anatomy
(Mrs. Dickerson)
The Hire
(Mother)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self - Actor - Scene from Edwin Booth)
Rage of Angels
(Clara)
9JKL
(Wrong Nana)
A Will of their Own
(Miss Maude)
American Experience
((voice))
Impulse
(Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones)
Route 66
(Dana)
The United States Steel Hour
(Jeannie)
Ruth & Erica
(Ruth)
Gossip Girl
(Iris Lefferts)
Law & Order: Organized Crime
(Doris 'Mama' Boone)
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
(Mimi Waldenstock)
Ray Donovan
(Dolores)
The Blacklist
(Lucy Game)
Grace and Frankie
(Mrs. Hanson)
Desperate Housewives
(Allison Scavo)
Route 66
(Lucy Brown)
Sneaky Pete
(Reverend Ethel Landry)
The Equalizer
(Dorothy Hermes)
Good Sports
The Americans
(Betty Turner)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee/Performer)
