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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Gettysburg Address
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
Lightning Bug
as Lydia
On the End
as Trudie Ferreira
The Uninvited
as Helen
Elsbeth
as Delores Feinn
Mack & Rita
as Betty
This Fool
as Beverly
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
Gossip Girl
as Iris Lefferts
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Doris 'Mama' Boone
Uncle Frank
as Aunt Butch
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Harper Pitt
Tesla
as The Grande Dame
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
as Mimi Waldenstock
Impulse
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
9JKL
as Wrong Nana
Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan
Marjorie Prime
as Marjorie
The Comedian
as Miriam
The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn
Sneaky Pete
as Reverend Ethel Landry
Grace and Frankie
as Mrs. Hanson
Younger
as Belinda Lacroix
Run All Night
as Margaret Conlon
The Affair
as Mrs. Gunther
Showing Up
as Self
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
Mom
as Claire
The Blacklist
as Lucy Game
Ray Donovan
as Dolores
The Americans
as Betty Turner
Ruth & Erica
as Ruth
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Aunt Mel
Roadie
as Mom
Please Give
as Mrs. Portman
A Dog Year
as Lois Blair
Killshot
as Lenore
True Blood
as Adele Stackhouse
Diminished Capacity
as Belle
Turn the River
as Abby
Army Wives
as Elsie
Griffin & Phoenix
as Dr. Imberman
Hollywoodland
as Helen Bessolo
Little Fugitive
as Elizabeth
Little Fugitive
as Social Worker
Sweet Land
as Inge (as an older woman)
James Dean: Sense Memories
as Self
Grey's Anatomy
as Mrs. Dickerson
P.S.
as Ellie Silverstein
Desperate Housewives
as Allison Scavo
LAX
as Rose Sinclair
Iron Jawed Angels
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
The Best Thief in the World
as Helen
Cold Case
as Fannie
A Foreign Affair
as Ma Adams
Red Betsy
as Helen Rounds
The Laramie Project
as Lucy Thompson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Betty Bennett
Powder Keg
as Mother
The Hire
as Mother
The Pledge
as Helen Jackson
Tumbleweeds
as Ginger
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rebecca Tolliver
A Will of their Own
as Miss Maude
The Eternal
as Mrs. Ferriter
Hudson River Blues
as Julia
Just Shoot Me!
as Libby
The Practice
as Mary Beth Berluti
Larger Than Life
as Luluna
Twister
as Aunt Meg
Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother
How to Make an American Quilt
as Sophia
Truman
as Madge Wallace Gates
Touched by an Angel
as Mildred Mancini
ER
as Gracie
Holy Matrimony
as Orna
Frasier
as Moira
Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother
Skylark
as Lou Wheaton
Deadly Matrimony
as Unknown
The Donner Party
as voice
Keep the Change
as Lureen
Hard Promises
as Mrs. Bell
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
as Alice Todd
Switched at Birth
as Margaret
The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
Coney Island
as (voice)
Good Sports
as Mrs. Tannen
Green Card
as Brontë's Mother
Law & Order
as Eunice Varick
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
American Experience
as (voice)
Midnight Run
as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
thirtysomething
as Unknown
Fatal Attraction
as Martha
Doubletake
as Sarah
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Mary Neal
Spenser: For Hire
as Unknown
The Equalizer
as Marie Ganucci
The Equalizer
as Dorothy Hermes
Twisted
as Helen Giles
Reckless
as Mrs. Prescott
Reuben, Reuben
as Mare Spofford
Rage of Angels
as Clara
American Playhouse
as Ma Joad
Four Friends
as Mrs. Carnahan
Resurrection
as Kathy
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Cornelia
Foxes
as Mrs. Axman
Tales of the Unexpected
as Sara
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
as Anita Cunningham
Up the Sandbox
as Elinore
Particular Men
as Anne Starr
Dragon Country
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
Five Easy Pieces
as Partita Dupea
The Way We Live Now
as Jane Aldridge
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Evelyn
Dr. Kildare
as Libby Clayton
The Defenders
as Esther Terranova
Route 66
as Unknown
Route 66
as Dana
Route 66
as Lucy Brown
The Master Builder
as Hilda
Startime
as Cindy
Naked City
as Dawn Garrison
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Performer
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
Matinee Theater
as Unknown
Strange Lady in Town
as Spurs O'Brien
East of Eden
as Anne
The United States Steel Hour
as Jeannie
Letter to Loretta
as Jenny Musgrave
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Unknown
Studio One
as Lisa Molloy