Biography
Lois Arlene Smith (nΓ©e 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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Filmography (132)
The Uninvited
2025
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Lightning Bug
2025
On the End
2025
Elsbeth
2024
Mack & Rita
2022
This Fool
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Gossip Girl
2021
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
Uncle Frank
2020
Tesla
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
Impulse
2018
Marjorie Prime
2017
Lady Bird
2017
9JKL
2017
The Nice Guys
2016
The Comedian
2016
Run All Night
2015
Younger
2015
Grace and Frankie
2015
Sneaky Pete
2015
Showing Up
2014
The Affair
2014
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013
Mom
2013
Ray Donovan
2013
The Blacklist
2013
The Americans
2013
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Roadie
2012
Ruth & Erica
2012
Please Give
2010
A Dog Year
2009
Turn the River
2008
Diminished Capacity
2008
True Blood
2008
Army Wives
2007
Hollywoodland
2006
Little Fugitive
2006
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
Sweet Land
2005
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
P.S.
2004
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
The Best Thief in the World
2004
LAX
2004
Desperate Housewives
2004
Red Betsy
2003
Cold Case
2003
Minority Report
2002
The Laramie Project
2002
Powder Keg
2001
The Pledge
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Hire
2001
Tumbleweeds
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Eternal
1998
A Will of their Own
1998
Hudson River Blues
1997
Just Shoot Me!
1997
The Practice
1997
Twister
1996
Larger Than Life
1996
Dead Man Walking
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Truman
1995
Holy Matrimony
1994
Touched by an Angel
1994
ER
1994
Skylark
1993
Falling Down
1993
Frasier
1993
The Donner Party
1992
Hard Promises
1992
Deadly Matrimony
1992
Keep the Change
1992
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
Coney Island
1991
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991
The Grapes of Wrath
1991
Good Sports
1991
Switched at Birth
1991
Green Card
1990
Law & Order
1990
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Midnight Run
1988
American Experience
1988
Black Widow
1987
Fatal Attraction
1987
thirtysomething
1987
Twisted
1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Doubletake
1985
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
1985
Reckless
1984
Reuben, Reuben
1983
Rage of Angels
1983
The House of Mirth
1981
Four Friends
1981
Resurrection
1980
Foxes
1980
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
Particular Men
1972
Up the Sandbox
1972
Five Easy Pieces
1970
Dragon Country
1970
The Way We Live Now
1970
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
CBS Playhouse
1966
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Defenders
1961
The Master Builder
1960
Route 66
1960
Startime
1959
Naked City
1958
Tony Awards
1956
East of Eden
1955
Strange Lady in Town
1955
Matinee Theater
1955
Letter to Loretta
1953
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Studio One
1948
The Steel Harp
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EspaΓ±ol
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