Lois Smith
Age: 93 | From: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1930-11-03 22:14:50
Aliases: Lois Arlene Humbert
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 51
TV Involvements: 28
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order
(1990) Eunice Varick
Grey's Anatomy
(2005) Mrs. Dickerson
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Rebecca Tolliver
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(2001) Betty Bennett
The Blacklist
(2013) Lucy Game
True Blood
(2008) Adele Stackhouse
Ray Donovan
(2013) Dolores
The Defenders
(1961) Esther TerranovaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Betty | |
| 2021 | Upshur 'Maw' Clampette | |
| Iris Lefferts | ||
| 2020 | Aunt Butch | |
| Harper Pitt | ||
| The Grande Dame | ||
| 2019 | Mimi Waldenstock | |
| 2017 | Wrong Nana | |
| Sister Sarah Joan | ||
| Marjorie | ||
| 2016 | Miriam | |
| Mrs. Glenn | ||
| 2015 | Reverend Ethel Landry | |
| Belinda Lacroix | ||
| Margaret Conlon | ||
| Elizabeth Crawford (voice) | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| 2013 | The Youngest Daughter (later) | |
| Lucy Game | ||
| Claire | ||
| Dolores | ||
| Betty Turner | ||
| 2012 | Aunt Mel | |
| Mom | ||
| 2010 | Mrs. Portman | |
| 2009 | Lois Blair | |
| 2008 | Adele Stackhouse | |
| Abby | ||
| 2006 | Dr. Imberman | |
| Helen Bessolo | ||
| Elizabeth | ||
| Social Worker | ||
| 2005 | Inge (as an older woman) | |
| Mrs. Dickerson | ||
| 2004 | Ellie Silverstein | |
| N/A | ||
| Reverend Anna Howard Shaw | ||
| Helen | ||
| 2003 | Fannie | |
| Helen Rounds | ||
| 2002 | Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse] | |
| Lucy Thompson | ||
| 2001 | Betty Bennett | |
| Mother | ||
| Mother | ||
| Helen Jackson | ||
| 1999 | Ginger | |
| Rebecca Tolliver | ||
| 1998 | Miss Maude | |
| Mrs. Ferriter | ||
| 1997 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1996 | Meg Greene | |
| 1995 | Helen's Mother | |
| Sophia | ||
| Madge Wallace Gates | ||
| 1994 | Mildred Mancini | |
| Gracie | ||
| Orna | ||
| 1993 | Moira | |
| D-Fens' Mother | ||
| Lou Wheaton | ||
| 1992 | N/A | |
| voice | ||
| Lureen | ||
| Mrs. Bell | ||
| 1991 | Mama Threadgoode | |
| Alice Todd | ||
| Margaret | ||
| Ma Joad | ||
| (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1990 | Brontë's Mother | |
| Eunice Varick | ||
| 1988 | Self | |
| (voice) | ||
| Mrs. Nelson | ||
| 1987 | N/A | |
| Martha | ||
| Sara | ||
| 1986 | Helen Giles | |
| 1985 | Sarah | |
| Mary Neal | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marie Ganucci | ||
| Dorothy Hermes | ||
| 1984 | Mrs. Prescott | |
| 1983 | Mare Spofford | |
| Clara | ||
| 1981 | Mrs. Carnahan | |
| Bertha Dorset | ||
| 1980 | Kathy | |
| Cornelia | ||
| Mrs. Axman | ||
| 1979 | Sara | |
| 1976 | Anita Cunningham | |
| 1972 | Elinore | |
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Partita Dupea | |
| Jane Aldridge | ||
| Zoe Cannell | ||
| Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen") | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1961 | Libby Clayton | |
| Esther Terranova | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| Hilda | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| 1958 | Dawn Garrison | |
| 1956 | Self - Nominee | |
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Spurs O'Brien | ||
| Anne | ||
| 1953 | Jeannie | |
| Jenny Musgrave | ||
| 1950 | N/A | |
| 1948 | Lisa Molloy | |
| Self - Actor - Scene from Edwin Booth | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
