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Lois Smith

Lois Smith

Birthday: 1930-11-03 | 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Uncle Frank

as    Aunt Butch

2017
Marjorie Prime

as    Marjorie

2017
Lady Bird

as    Sister Sarah Joan

2016
The Comedian

as    Miriam

2016
The Nice Guys

as    Mrs. Glenn

2012
Roadie

as    Mom

2010
Please Give

as    Mrs. Portman

2009
A Dog Year

as    Lois Blair

2008
Turn the River

as    Abby

2006
Griffin & Phoenix

as    Dr. Imberman

2006
Little Fugitive

as    Elizabeth

2006
Hollywoodland

as    Helen Bessolo

2005
Sweet Land

as    Inge (as an older woman)

2004
P.S.

as    Ellie Silverstein

2004
Iron Jawed Angels

as    Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

2003
Red Betsy

as    Helen Rounds

2001
The Pledge

as    Helen Jackson

2001
Powder Keg

as    Mother

1999
The Eternal

as    Mrs. Ferriter

1996
Twister

as    Meg Greene

1995
Dead Man Walking

as    Helen's Mother

1995
1994
Holy Matrimony

as    Orna

1993
Skylark

as    Lou Wheaton