Lois Smith

Acting

Born Nov 03, 1930

From 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.

Lois Smith

Known For

The Nice Guys

Twister

Lady Bird

Minority Report

Falling Down

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Dead Man Walking

Fried Green Tomatoes

East of Eden

Run All Night

Filmography — Acting

The Nice Guys

Twister

Lady Bird

Minority Report

Falling Down

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Dead Man Walking

Fried Green Tomatoes

East of Eden

Run All Night

Fatal Attraction

The Pledge

Midnight Run

Tesla

Hollywoodland

Iron Jawed Angels

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Black Widow

P.S.

Uncle Frank

How to Make an American Quilt

Five Easy Pieces

The Comedian

A Dog Year

Green Card

Truman

The Laramie Project

Mack & Rita

Please Give

The Gettysburg Address

Griffin & Phoenix

Marjorie Prime

The Uninvited

Up the Sandbox

Roadie

Reckless

Holy Matrimony

Sweet Land

Larger Than Life

The Eternal

Foxes

Doubletake

Hello Actors Studio

Resurrection

Deadly Matrimony

Four Friends

Powder Keg

Showing Up

Skylark

The Donner Party

Strange Lady in Town

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Hard Promises

Hudson River Blues

Little Fugitive

The Execution of Raymond Graham

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

The Best Thief in the World

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Twisted

James Dean: Sense Memories

Turn the River

The House of Mirth

Reuben, Reuben

Diminished Capacity

Tumbleweeds

The Grapes of Wrath