Lois Smith
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.
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Acting
TV
Grey's Anatomy
as Mrs. Dickerson
2005
Movie
Minority Report
as Dr. Iris Hineman
2002
Movie
Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan
2017
Movie
The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn
2016
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rebecca Tolliver
1999
Movie
Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother
1993
Movie
Twister
as Aunt Meg
1996
TV
The Blacklist
as Lucy Game
2013
Movie
Run All Night
as Margaret Conlon
2015
Movie
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2021
TV
Desperate Housewives
as Allison Scavo
2004
TV
True Blood
as Adele Stackhouse
2008
Movie
Fatal Attraction
as Martha
1987
Movie
Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother
1995
Movie
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode
1991
Movie
Midnight Run
as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
1988
Movie
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Aunt Mel
2012
Movie
The Pledge
as Helen Jackson
2001
TV
The Americans
as Betty Turner
2013
TV
ER
as Gracie
1994
TV
Frasier
as Moira
1993
TV
Ray Donovan
as Dolores
2013
Movie
East of Eden
as Anne
1955
TV
Law & Order
as Eunice Varick
1990
