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.
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Known For
Acting
2002
asDr. Iris Hineman
1955
asAnne
2006
asHelen Bessolo
1996
asAunt Meg
1995
asHelen's Mother
1994
asOrna
2005
asInge (as an older woman)
1976
asAnita Cunningham
1995
asSophia
2004
asEllie Silverstein
1970
asPartita Dupea
2009
asLois Blair
2008
asAbby
1993
asLou Wheaton
2025
asHelen
2004
asReverend Anna Howard Shaw
1987
asSara
2012
asAunt Mel
1998
asMrs. Ferriter
2006
asElizabeth
2004
asHelen
2012
asMom
1955
asSpurs O'Brien
1985
asHelen Giles
1992
asvoice
1985
asMary Neal
1985
asSarah
1991
asMama Threadgoode
2014
asSelf
1970
asWoman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
2003
asHelen Rounds
1988
asSelf
2006
asSocial Worker
1991
as(voice)
1993
asD-Fens' Mother
as 
1967
asEvelyn
2002
asLucy Thompson
2010
asMrs. Portman
2005
asSelf
2015
asMargaret Conlon
1981
asBertha Dorset
1990
asBrontë's Mother
2001
asMother
1987
asMartha
1996
asLuluna
2016
asMrs. Glenn
2006
asDr. Imberman
1980
asKathy
2017
asMarjorie
1972
as
2016
asMiriam
2013
asThe Youngest Daughter (later)
1992
asMrs. Bell
2017
asSister Sarah Joan
1983
asMare Spofford
1980
asMrs. Axman
1995
asMadge Wallace Gates
1972
asElinore
2021
asUpshur 'Maw' Clampette
1999
asGinger
2001
asHelen Jackson
2025
asElizabeth Crawford (voice)
1960
asHilda
2020
asAunt Butch
1991
asMargaret
1988
asMrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
1980
asCornelia
1992
as
2020
asThe Grande Dame
1981
asMrs. Carnahan
1991
asAlice Todd
2020
asHarper Pitt
1991
asMa Joad
2022
asBetty
1984
asMrs. Prescott
1970
asJane Aldridge
1992
asLureen
1997
as
2008
asBelle
as
as
asMildred Mancini
asFannie
as
asSara
asRebecca Tolliver
asDawn Garrison
asMoira
asRose Sinclair
asLisa Molloy
asMarie Ganucci
asLibby
asGracie
asZoe Cannell
asBetty Bennett
asAdele Stackhouse
as
asEunice Varick
as 
as
asLibby Clayton
asEsther Terranova
asJenny Musgrave
as
asBelinda Lacroix
asSelf - Nominee
asClaire
asMrs. Dickerson
asMother
asClara
asWrong Nana
asMiss Maude
as(voice)
asDeirdre 'Dippy' Jones
asDana
asJeannie
asRuth
asIris Lefferts
asDoris 'Mama' Boone
asMimi Waldenstock
asDolores
asLucy Game
asMrs. Hanson
asAllison Scavo
asLucy Brown
asReverend Ethel Landry
asDorothy Hermes
as
asBetty Turner
asSelf - Nominee/Performer
asBeverly
asMary Beth Berluti
Production
Crew
1997
asDirecting
