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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
132 acting credits
Acting · 132
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
Frasier
1993
True Blood
2008
Cold Case
2003
Mom
2013
The Practice
1997
American Experience
1988
The Americans
2013
The Equalizer
1985
Elsbeth
2024
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
Ray Donovan
2013
Dr. Kildare
1961
Touched by an Angel
1994
Army Wives
2007
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Tony Awards
1956
Younger
2015
Naked City
1958
Grace and Frankie
2015
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Route 66
1960
Matinee Theater
1955
Studio One
1948
Just Shoot Me!
1997
The Defenders
1961
The Affair
2014
Sneaky Pete
2015
thirtysomething
1987
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Gossip Girl
2021
Startime
1959
Impulse
2018
The United States Steel Hour
1953
The Nice Guys
2016
Minority Report
2002
Twister
1996
CBS Playhouse
1966
LAX
2004
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
Lady Bird
2017
Falling Down
1993
The Hire
2001
Run All Night
2015
Letter to Loretta
1953
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
9JKL
2017
This Fool
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Fatal Attraction
1987
Midnight Run
1988
Good Sports
1991
Dead Man Walking
1995
Ruth & Erica
2012
A Will of their Own
1998
East of Eden
1955
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
The Pledge
2001
Rage of Angels
1983
Hollywoodland
2006
Green Card
1990
Uncle Frank
2020
Black Widow
1987
Five Easy Pieces
1970
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
The Comedian
2016
Tesla
2020
P.S.
2004
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
The Laramie Project
2002
Truman
1995
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
The Uninvited
2025
Larger Than Life
1996
A Dog Year
2009
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Reckless
1984
Switched at Birth
1991
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
Mack & Rita
2022
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
Holy Matrimony
1994
Skylark
1993
The Eternal
1998
Sweet Land
2005
Foxes
1980
Deadly Matrimony
1992
Resurrection
1980
Roadie
2012
Marjorie Prime
2017
Up the Sandbox
1972
Tumbleweeds
1999
Please Give
2010
Hello Actors Studio
1988
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Showing Up
2014
Turn the River
2008
Four Friends
1981
Doubletake
1985
Strange Lady in Town
1955
Diminished Capacity
2008
Powder Keg
2001
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991
The Grapes of Wrath
1991
Keep the Change
1992
Little Fugitive
2006
Reuben, Reuben
1983
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
On the End
2025
Hard Promises
1992
The Donner Party
1992
Lightning Bug
2025
The Steel Harp
—
The House of Mirth
1981
Coney Island
1991
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
Twisted
1985
The Way We Live Now
1970
Red Betsy
2003
Hudson River Blues
1997
Particular Men
1972
The Best Thief in the World
2004
The Master Builder
1960
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
Dragon Country
1970