
Lois Smith
Acting
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.

The Gettysburg Address
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)

On the End
Trudie Ferreira
Lightning Bug
Lydia

The Uninvited
Helen

Mack & Rita
Betty

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

Uncle Frank
Aunt Butch

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Harper Pitt

Tesla
The Grande Dame

Lady Bird
Sister Sarah Joan

Marjorie Prime
Marjorie

The Comedian
Miriam

The Nice Guys
Mrs. Glenn

Run All Night
Margaret Conlon

Showing Up
Self

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
The Youngest Daughter (later)

The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Aunt Mel

Roadie
Mom

Please Give
Mrs. Portman

A Dog Year
Lois Blair

Diminished Capacity
Belle

Turn the River
Abby

Griffin & Phoenix
Dr. Imberman

Hollywoodland
Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive
Social Worker
Little Fugitive
Elizabeth

Sweet Land
Inge (as an older woman)

James Dean: Sense Memories
Self

P.S.
Ellie Silverstein

Iron Jawed Angels
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

The Best Thief in the World
Helen

Red Betsy
Helen Rounds

Minority Report
Dr. Iris Hineman

The Laramie Project
Lucy Thompson

Powder Keg
Mother

The Pledge
Helen Jackson

Tumbleweeds
Ginger

The Eternal
Mrs. Ferriter

Hudson River Blues

Larger Than Life
Luluna

Twister
Aunt Meg

Dead Man Walking
Helen's Mother

How to Make an American Quilt
Sophia

Truman
Madge Wallace Gates

Holy Matrimony
Orna

Falling Down
D-Fens' Mother

Skylark
Lou Wheaton

Deadly Matrimony

The Donner Party
voice

Keep the Change
Lureen

Hard Promises
Mrs. Bell

Fried Green Tomatoes
Mama Threadgoode

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Alice Todd

The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad

Coney Island
(voice)

Green Card
Brontë's Mother

Hello Actors Studio
Self

Midnight Run
Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend

Fatal Attraction
Martha

Black Widow
Sara

Doubletake
Sarah

The Execution of Raymond Graham
Mary Neal

Twisted
Helen Giles

Reckless
Mrs. Prescott

Reuben, Reuben
Mare Spofford

Four Friends
Mrs. Carnahan
The House of Mirth
Bertha Dorset

Resurrection
Kathy

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Cornelia

Foxes
Mrs. Axman

Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Anita Cunningham

Up the Sandbox
Elinore

Particular Men

Dragon Country
Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")

Five Easy Pieces
Partita Dupea

The Way We Live Now
Jane Aldridge

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Evelyn

The Master Builder
Hilda

Strange Lady in Town
Spurs O'Brien

East of Eden
Anne







