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