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.
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Acted in
The Gettysburg Address
2025
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
The Uninvited
2024
as Helen
Mack & Rita
2022
as Betty
The French Dispatch
2021
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
Gossip Girl
2021
as Iris Lefferts
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
as Doris 'Mama' Boone
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
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
as Mimi Waldenstock
Impulse
2018
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
9JKL
2017
as Wrong Nana
Lady Bird
2017
as Sister Sarah Joan
Marjorie Prime
2017
as Marjorie
The Comedian
2016
as Miriam
The Nice Guys
2016
as Mrs. Glenn
Sneaky Pete
2015
as Reverend Ethel Landry
Grace and Frankie
2015
as Mrs. Hanson
Younger
2015
as Belinda Lacroix
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)
Mom
2013
as Claire
The Blacklist
2013
as Lucy Game
Ray Donovan
2013
as Dolores
The Americans
2013
as Betty Turner
Ruth & Erica
2012
as Ruth
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
True Blood
2008
as Adele Stackhouse
Turn the River
2008
as Abby
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
as Dr. Imberman
Hollywoodland
2006
as Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive
2006
as Elizabeth
Little Fugitive
2006
as Social Worker
Sweet Land
2005
as Inge (as an older woman)
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
as Self
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Mrs. Dickerson
P.S.
2004
as Ellie Silverstein
Desperate Housewives
2004
as Allison Scavo
LAX
2004
as Rose Sinclair
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
The Best Thief in the World
2004
as Helen
Cold Case
2003
as Fannie
Red Betsy
2003
as Helen Rounds
Minority Report
2002
as Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse]
The Laramie Project
2002
as Lucy Thompson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Betty Bennett
Powder Keg
2001
as Mother
The Hire
2001
as Mother
The Pledge
2001
as Helen Jackson
Tumbleweeds
1999
as Ginger
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Rebecca Tolliver
A Will of their Own
1998
as Miss Maude
The Eternal
1998
as Mrs. Ferriter
Hudson River Blues
1997
The Practice
1997
Just Shoot Me!
1997
as Libby
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
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Mildred Mancini
ER
1994
as Gracie
Holy Matrimony
1994
as Orna
Frasier
1993
as Moira
Falling Down
1993
as D-Fens' Mother
Skylark
1993
as Lou Wheaton
Deadly Matrimony
1992
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
Switched at Birth
1991
as Margaret
The Grapes of Wrath
1991
as Ma Joad
Coney Island
1991
as (voice)
Good Sports
1991
Green Card
1990
as Brontë's Mother
Law & Order
1990
as Eunice Varick
Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self
American Experience
1988
as (voice)
Midnight Run
1988
as Mrs. Nelson
thirtysomething
1987
Fatal Attraction
1987
as Martha
Black Widow
1987
as Sara
Doubletake
1985
as Sarah
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
as Mary Neal
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
1985
as Marie Ganucci
The Equalizer
1985
as Dorothy Hermes
Twisted
1985
as Helen Giles
Reckless
1984
as Mrs. Prescott
Reuben, Reuben
1983
as Mare Spofford
Rage of Angels
1983
as Clara
Four Friends
1981
as Mrs. Carnahan
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
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Sara
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
as Anita Cunningham
Up the Sandbox
1972
as Elinore
Particular Men
1972
Five Easy Pieces
1970
as Partita Dupea
The Way We Live Now
1970
as Jane Aldridge
Somerset
1970
as Zoe Cannell
Dragon Country
1970
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
as Evelyn
CBS Playhouse
1966
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Libby Clayton
The Defenders
1961
as Esther Terranova
Route 66
1960
Route 66
1960
as Dana
Route 66
1960
as Lucy Brown
The Master Builder
1960
as Hilda
Startime
1959
Naked City
1958
as Dawn Garrison
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee/Performer
Matinee Theater
1955
Strange Lady in Town
1955
as Spurs O'Brien
East of Eden
1955
as Anne
The United States Steel Hour
1953
as Jeannie
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Jenny Musgrave
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Studio One
1948
as Lisa Molloy
