Lois Smith
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1930-11-03 (94 years old)
Place of Birth Topeka, Kansas, USA
Also Known As Lois Arlene Humbert, Lois Arlene Smith
Lois Smith
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.
Known For
Actor
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
as Helen
as Betty
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
as Iris Lefferts
as Doris 'Mama' Boone
as Aunt Butch
as Harper Pitt
as The Grande Dame
as Mimi Waldenstock
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
as Sister Sarah Joan
as Marjorie
as Wrong Nana
as Miriam
as Mrs. Glenn
as Margaret Conlon
as Reverend Ethel Landry
as Mrs. Hanson
as Belinda Lacroix
as Self
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
as Claire
as Lucy Game
as Dolores
as Betty Turner
as Aunt Mel
as Mom
as Ruth
as Mrs. Portman
as Lois Blair
as Abby
as Adele Stackhouse
as Dr. Imberman
as Helen Bessolo
as Elizabeth
as Social Worker
as Inge (as an older woman)
as Self
as Mrs. Dickerson
as Ellie Silverstein
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
as Helen
as Allison Scavo
as Rose Sinclair
as Helen Rounds
as Fannie
as Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse]
as Lucy Thompson
as Mother
as Helen Jackson
as Betty Bennett
as Mother
as Ginger
as Rebecca Tolliver
as Mrs. Ferriter
as Miss Maude
as Libby
as Luluna
as Aunt Meg
as Helen's Mother
as Sophia
as Madge Wallace Gates
as Orna
as Mildred Mancini
as Gracie
as D-Fens' Mother
as Lou Wheaton
as Moira
as voice
as Lureen
as Mrs. Bell
as Mama Threadgoode
as Alice Todd
as Margaret
as Ma Joad
as (voice)
as Brontë's Mother
as Eunice Varick
as Self
as Mrs. Nelson
as (voice)
as Martha
as Sara
as Sarah
as Mary Neal
as Helen Giles
as Marie Ganucci
as Dorothy Hermes
as Mrs. Prescott
as Mare Spofford
as Clara
as Mrs. Carnahan
as Bertha Dorset
as Kathy
as Cornelia
as Mrs. Axman
as Sara
as Anita Cunningham
as Elinore
as Partita Dupea
as Jane Aldridge
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
as Zoe Cannell
as Evelyn
as Libby Clayton
as Esther Terranova
as Hilda
as Dana
as Lucy Brown
as Dawn Garrison
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Nominee/Performer
as Spurs O'Brien
as Anne
as Jeannie
as Jenny Musgrave
as Lisa Molloy
as Self - Actor - Scene from Edwin Booth
Crew
as Thanks