Lois Smith profile
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Lois Smith

3rd November 1930 Topeka, Kansas, USA Acting

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.

81 Movies 56 TV Shows 140 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Tesla poster
Tesla 14th August 2020 as The Grande Dame
Lady Bird poster
Lady Bird 1st September 2017 as Sister Sarah Joan
Sweet Land poster
Sweet Land 21st October 2005 as Inge (as an older woman)
P.S. poster
P.S. 15th October 2004 as Ellie Silverstein
Truman poster
Truman 9th September 1995 as Madge Wallace Gates
Skylark poster
Skylark 7th February 1993 as Lou Wheaton
Twisted poster
Twisted 23rd August 1985 as Helen Giles
Reckless poster
Reckless 3rd February 1984 as Mrs. Prescott
Foxes poster
Foxes 29th February 1980 as Mrs. Axman
Dragon Country poster
Dragon Country 3rd December 1970 as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Elsbeth poster
Elsbeth 29th February 2024 as Delores Feinn
Impulse poster
Impulse 6th June 2018 as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
9JKL poster
9JKL 2nd October 2017 as Wrong Nana
Younger poster
Younger 31st March 2015 as Belinda Lacroix
Mom poster
Mom 23rd September 2013 as Claire
LAX poster
LAX 13th September 2004 as Rose Sinclair
ER poster
ER 19th September 1994 as Gracie