Lois Smith
Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1930
Place of birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA
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.
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Filmography
83 movies · 53 TV shows, newest first
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The Gettysburg Address
2025
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Lightning Bug
2025
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On the End
2025
5.7
The Uninvited
2025
6.7
Elsbeth
2024
5.5
Mack & Rita
2022
7.4
This Fool
2022
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
7.3
Gossip Girl
2021
7.9
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
7.3
Uncle Frank
2020
10.0
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
5.7
Tesla
2020
6.6
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
7.6
Impulse
2018
6.2
9JKL
2017
7.2
Lady Bird
2017
6.1
Marjorie Prime
2017
5.7
The Comedian
2016
7.1
The Nice Guys
2016
7.5
Sneaky Pete
2015
7.7
Grace and Frankie
2015
6.9
Younger
2015
6.4
Run All Night
2015
6.7
The Affair
2014
9.2
Showing Up
2014
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The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013
7.3
Mom
2013
7.6
The Blacklist
2013
7.5
Ray Donovan
2013
7.9
The Americans
2013
8.0
Ruth & Erica
2012
7.0
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
5.8
Roadie
2012
6.2
Please Give
2010
6.1
A Dog Year
2009
5.8
Killshot
2008
7.6
True Blood
2008
5.3
Diminished Capacity
2008
5.3
Turn the River
2008
7.5
Army Wives
2007
7.1
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
6.1
Hollywoodland
2006
6.5
Little Fugitive
2006
6.3
Sweet Land
2005
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James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
8.2
Grey's Anatomy
2005
5.6
P.S.
2004
7.9
Desperate Housewives
2004
7.3
LAX
2004
5.4
A Foreign Affair
2004
6.8
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
4.6
The Best Thief in the World
2004
7.7
Cold Case
2003
9.0
Red Betsy
2003
7.4
Minority Report
2002
6.2
The Laramie Project
2002
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
6.9
Powder Keg
2001
7.6
The Hire
2001
6.6
The Pledge
2001
6.4
Tumbleweeds
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
7.5
A Will of their Own
1998
4.8
The Eternal
1998
8.0
Hudson River Blues
1997
5.8
Eye of God
1997
6.6
Just Shoot Me!
1997
7.6
The Practice
1997
5.5
Larger Than Life
1996
6.6
Twister
1996
7.3
Dead Man Walking
1995
6.4
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
7.6
Truman
1995
7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994
7.8
ER
1994
5.3
Holy Matrimony
1994
7.7
Frasier
1993
7.4
Falling Down
1993
7.0
Skylark
1993
5.6
Deadly Matrimony
1992
7.0
The Donner Party
1992
7.0
Keep the Change
1992
5.8
Hard Promises
1992
7.7
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
7.5
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991
7.0
Switched at Birth
1991
10.0
The Grapes of Wrath
1991
8.0
Coney Island
1991
6.5
Good Sports
1991
6.1
Green Card
1990
7.3
Law & Order
1990
6.7
Hello Actors Studio
1988
6.5
American Experience
1988
7.2
Midnight Run
1988
6.3
thirtysomething
1987
6.8
Fatal Attraction
1987
6.2
Black Widow
1987
5.0
Doubletake
1985
6.6
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
6.9
Spenser: For Hire
1985
7.1
The Equalizer
1985
4.9
Twisted
1985
5.8
Reckless
1984
6.4
Reuben, Reuben
1983
5.9
Rage of Angels
1983
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
6.8
Four Friends
19818.0
The House of Mirth
1981
6.5
Resurrection
1980
4.0
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
6.0
Foxes
1980
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
6.4
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
5.9
Up the Sandbox
1972
8.0
Particular Men
1972
6.5
Dragon Country
1970
7.1
Five Easy Pieces
1970
9.0
The Way We Live Now
1970
10.0
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
19677.0
CBS Playhouse
1966
5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
6.3
The Defenders
1961
6.7
Route 66
1960
10.0
The Master Builder
1960
6.8
Startime
1959
5.7
Naked City
1958
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Tony Awards
1956
5.3
Matinee Theater
1955
4.9
Strange Lady in Town
1955
7.5
East of Eden
1955
6.3
The United States Steel Hour
1953
6.6
Letter to Loretta
1953
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.4
Studio One
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The Steel Harp
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