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Lois Smith

Lois Smith

Actor · Born 1930-11-03 · Topeka, Kansas, USA

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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 starre…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Grey's Anatomy (2005) — Mrs. Dickerson
  2. Minority Report (2002) — Dr. Iris Hineman
  3. Lady Bird (2017) — Sister Sarah Joan
  4. The Nice Guys (2016) — Mrs. Glenn
  5. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Rebecca Tolliver
  6. Falling Down (1993) — D-Fens' Mother
  7. Twister (1996) — Aunt Meg
  8. The Blacklist (2013) — Lucy Game
  9. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) — Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
  10. Run All Night (2015) — Margaret Conlon
  11. Desperate Housewives (2004) — Allison Scavo
  12. True Blood (2008) — Adele Stackhouse
  13. Fatal Attraction (1987) — Martha
  14. Dead Man Walking (1995) — Helen's Mother
  15. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) — Mama Threadgoode
  16. Midnight Run (1988) — Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
  17. The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) — Aunt Mel
  18. The Pledge (2001) — Helen Jackson
  19. The Americans (2013) — Betty Turner
  20. ER (1994) — Gracie
  21. Frasier (1993) — Moira
  22. Ray Donovan (2013) — Dolores
  23. East of Eden (1955) — Anne
  24. Law & Order (1990) — Eunice Varick
  25. Mom (2013) — Claire
  26. Five Easy Pieces (1970) — Partita Dupea
  27. Green Card (1990) — Brontë's Mother
  28. Hollywoodland (2006) — Helen Bessolo
  29. Uncle Frank (2020) — Aunt Butch
  30. Cold Case (2003) — Fannie
  31. The Affair (2014) — Mrs. Gunther
  32. Sneaky Pete (2015) — Reverend Ethel Landry
  33. Tesla (2020) — The Grande Dame
  34. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) — Betty Bennett
  35. Grace and Frankie (2015) — Mrs. Hanson
  36. Gossip Girl (2021) — Iris Lefferts
  37. Impulse (2018) — Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
  38. Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) — Doris 'Mama' Boone
  39. Younger (2015) — Belinda Lacroix
  40. Black Widow (1987) — Sara