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Lois Smith
Lois Smith’s screen credits include Dr. Iris Hineman in Minority Report and Martha in Fatal Attraction.
Born November 3, 1930 Topeka, Kansas, USA2 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2025The Gettysburg AddressElizabeth Crawford (voice)
- 2025Lightning BugLydia
- 2025On the EndTrudie Ferreira
- 2025The UninvitedHelen
- 2022Mack & RitaBetty
- 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunUpshur 'Maw' Clampette
- 2020Uncle FrankAunt Butch
- 2020The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in AmericaHarper Pitt
- 2020TeslaThe Grande Dame
- 2017Lady BirdSister Sarah Joan
- 2017Marjorie PrimeMarjorie
- 2016The ComedianMiriam
- 2016The Nice GuysMrs. Glenn
- 2015Run All NightMargaret Conlon
- 2014Showing UpSelf
- 2013The Man Who Came Out Only at NightThe Youngest Daughter (later)
- 2012The Odd Life of Timothy GreenAunt Mel
- 2012RoadieMom
- 2010Please GiveMrs. Portman
- 2009A Dog YearLois Blair
- 2008KillshotLenore
- 2008Diminished CapacityBelle
- 2008Turn the RiverAbby
- 2006Griffin & PhoenixDr. Imberman
- 2006HollywoodlandHelen Bessolo
- 2006Little FugitiveElizabeth, Social Worker
- 2005Sweet LandInge (as an older woman)
- 2005James Dean: Sense MemoriesSelf
- 2004P.S.Ellie Silverstein
- 2004Iron Jawed AngelsReverend Anna Howard Shaw
- 2004The Best Thief in the WorldHelen
- 2003A Foreign AffairMa Adams
- 2003Red BetsyHelen Rounds
- 2002The Laramie ProjectLucy Thompson
- 2001Powder KegMother
- 2001The PledgeHelen Jackson
- 1999TumbleweedsGinger
- 1998The EternalMrs. Ferriter
- 1997Hudson River BluesJulia
- 1996Larger Than LifeLuluna
- 1996TwisterAunt Meg
- 1995Dead Man WalkingHelen's Mother
- 1995How to Make an American QuiltSophia
- 1995TrumanMadge Wallace Gates
- 1994Holy MatrimonyOrna
- 1993Falling DownD-Fens' Mother
- 1993SkylarkLou Wheaton
- 1992Deadly MatrimonyActor
- 1992The Donner Partyvoice
- 1992Keep the ChangeLureen
- 1992Hard PromisesMrs. Bell
- 1991Fried Green TomatoesMama Threadgoode
- 1991White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma ToddAlice Todd
- 1991The Grapes of WrathMa Joad
- 1991Coney Island(voice)
- 1990Green CardBrontë's Mother
- 1988Hello Actors StudioSelf
- 1988Midnight RunMrs. Nelson
- 1987Black WidowSara
- 1985DoubletakeSarah
- 1985The Execution of Raymond GrahamMary Neal
- 1985TwistedHelen Giles
- 1984RecklessMrs. Prescott
- 1983Reuben, ReubenMare Spofford
- 1981Four FriendsMrs. Carnahan
- 1981The House of MirthBertha Dorset
- 1980ResurrectionKathy
- 1980The Jilting of Granny WeatherallCornelia
- 1980FoxesMrs. Axman
- 1976Next Stop, Greenwich VillageAnita Cunningham
- 1972Up the SandboxElinore
- 1972Particular MenAnne Starr
- 1970Dragon CountryWoman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
- 1970Five Easy PiecesPartita Dupea
- 1970The Way We Live NowJane Aldridge
- The Steel HarpHanna
- 1967Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightEvelyn
- 1960The Master BuilderHilda
- 1955Strange Lady in TownSpurs O'Brien
- 1955East of EdenAnne
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