Acting
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.
Movies with Lois Smith
Twister
1996
Falling Down
1993
Lady Bird
2017
Minority Report
2002
The Nice Guys
2016
Run All Night
2015
Fatal Attraction
1987
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Dead Man Walking
1995
Hollywoodland
2006
Midnight Run
1988
Tesla
2020
The Uninvited
2025
The Pledge
2001
Holy Matrimony
1994
Five Easy Pieces
1970
Please Give
2010
East of Eden
1955
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Showing Up
2014
Black Widow
1987
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Uncle Frank
2020
Green Card
1990
The Comedian
2016
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
The Eternal
1998
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
Mack & Rita
2022
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Deadly Matrimony
1992
P.S.
2004
Diminished Capacity
2008
Coney Island
1991
A Dog Year
2009
Up the Sandbox
1972
Sweet Land
2005
Larger Than Life
1996
The Laramie Project
2002
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Turn the River
2008
Red Betsy
2003
The Grapes of Wrath
1991
Little Fugitive
2006
Particular Men
1972
Powder Keg
2001
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
Hard Promises
1992
The Donner Party
1992
Reckless
1984
Marjorie Prime
2017
Foxes
1980
Strange Lady in Town
1955
Four Friends
1981
Truman
1995
Reuben, Reuben
1983
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Tumbleweeds
1999
Doubletake
1985
Skylark
1993
Keep the Change
1992
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
The House of Mirth
1981
Resurrection
1980
Roadie
2012
Dragon Country
1970
Twisted
1985
Hudson River Blues
1997
The Best Thief in the World
2004
The Way We Live Now
1970
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
On the End
2025
The Steel Harp
Lightning Bug
2025
The Master Builder
1960
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013
TV Shows with Lois Smith
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Blacklist
2013
Desperate Housewives
2004
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
ER
1994
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Frasier
1993
True Blood
2008
Younger
2015
Cold Case
2003
Mom
2013
The Practice
1997
The Americans
2013
American Experience
1988
The Equalizer
1985
Elsbeth
2024
Ray Donovan
2013
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
The Affair
2014
Tony Awards
1956
Touched by an Angel
1994
Sneaky Pete
2015
The Defenders
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
Army Wives
2007
Grace and Frankie
2015
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Naked City
1958
Studio One
1948
Route 66
1960
Matinee Theater
1955
Just Shoot Me!
1997
thirtysomething
1987
Gossip Girl
2021
Impulse
2018
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Startime
1959
LAX
2004
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
CBS Playhouse
1966
The Hire
2001
Good Sports
1991
This Fool
2022
9JKL
2017
Letter to Loretta
1953
Ruth & Erica
2012
A Will of their Own
1998
Switched at Birth
1991
Rage of Angels
1983