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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 3, 1930
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- Lois Arlene Humbert
- Lois Arlene Smith
- لوئیس اسمیت
Lois Smith
1.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
The Gettysburg Address
2025
5.7
Helen
The Uninvited
2025
7.7
Beverly
This Fool
2022
5.6
Betty
Mack & Rita
2022
7.0
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
The French Dispatch
2021
7.3
Iris Lefferts
Gossip Girl
2021
7.9
Doris 'Mama' Boone
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
7.3
Aunt Butch
Uncle Frank
2020
10.0
Harper Pitt
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
5.8
The Grande Dame
Tesla
2020
Credits
The Gettysburg Address
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
2025
0.0
The Uninvited
as Helen
2025
5.7
This Fool
as Beverly
2022
7.7
Mack & Rita
as Betty
2022
5.6
The French Dispatch
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2021
7.0
Gossip Girl
as Iris Lefferts
2021
7.3
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Doris 'Mama' Boone
2021
7.9
Uncle Frank
as Aunt Butch
2020
7.3
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Harper Pitt
2020
10.0
Tesla
as The Grande Dame
2020
5.8
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
as Mimi Waldenstock
2019
6.5
Impulse
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
2018
7.7
9JKL
as Wrong Nana
2017
6.4
Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan
2017
7.3
Marjorie Prime
as Marjorie
2017
6.1
The Comedian
as Miriam
2016
5.7
The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn
2016
7.1
Sneaky Pete
as Reverend Ethel Landry
2015
7.5
Grace and Frankie
as Mrs. Hanson
2015
7.7
Younger
as Belinda Lacroix
2015
6.8
Run All Night
as Margaret Conlon
2015
6.4
Showing Up
as Self
2014
9.2
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
2013
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The Blacklist
as Lucy Game
2013
7.6
Mom
as Claire
2013
7.3
Ray Donovan
as Dolores
2013
7.5
The Americans
as Betty Turner
2013
7.9
Ruth & Erica
as Ruth
2012
8.0
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Aunt Mel
2012
7.0
Roadie
as Mom
2012
5.7
Please Give
as Mrs. Portman
2010
6.2
A Dog Year
as Lois Blair
2009
6.2
True Blood
as Adele Stackhouse
2008
7.6
Diminished Capacity
as Belle
2008
5.4
Turn the River
as Abby
2008
5.3
Griffin & Phoenix
as Dr. Imberman
2006
7.1
Hollywoodland
as Helen Bessolo
2006
6.1
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Little Fugitive
as Elizabeth
2006
5.7
🎬
Little Fugitive
as Social Worker
2006
5.7
Sweet Land
as Inge (as an older woman)
2005
6.3
James Dean: Sense Memories
as Self
2005
0.0
Grey's Anatomy
as Mrs. Dickerson
2005
8.2
P.S.
as Ellie Silverstein
2004
5.6
Desperate Housewives
as Allison Scavo
2004
7.9
LAX
as Rose Sinclair
2004
7.4
Iron Jawed Angels
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
2004
6.9
The Best Thief in the World
as Helen
2004
4.4
Cold Case
as Fannie
2003
7.8
Red Betsy
as Helen Rounds
2003
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Minority Report
as Dr. Iris Hineman
2002
7.3
The Laramie Project
as Lucy Thompson
2002
6.3
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Betty Bennett
2001
7.6
Powder Keg
as Mother
2001
6.8
The Hire
as Mother
2001
7.6
The Pledge
as Helen Jackson
2001
6.6
Tumbleweeds
as Ginger
1999
6.5
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rebecca Tolliver
1999
7.9
A Will of their Own
as Miss Maude
1998
7.0
The Eternal
as Mrs. Ferriter
1998
4.3
Hudson River Blues
1997
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The Practice
as Mary Beth Berluti
1997
7.7
Just Shoot Me!
as Libby
1997
6.6
Larger Than Life
as Luluna
1996
5.5
Twister
as Aunt Meg
1996
6.5
Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother
1995
7.3
How to Make an American Quilt
as Sophia
1995
6.4
Truman
as Madge Wallace Gates
1995
7.6
Touched by an Angel
as Mildred Mancini
1994
7.2
ER
as Gracie
1994
7.8
Holy Matrimony
as Orna
1994
5.3
Frasier
as Moira
1993
7.7
Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother
1993
7.4
Skylark
as Lou Wheaton
1993
7.2
Deadly Matrimony
1992
4.4
The Donner Party
as voice
1992
6.8
Keep the Change
as Lureen
1992
6.0
Hard Promises
as Mrs. Bell
1992
5.4
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode
1991
7.7
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
as Alice Todd
1991
6.0
Switched at Birth
as Margaret
1991
6.0
The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
1991
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Coney Island
as (voice)
1991
6.0
Good Sports
1991
6.0
Green Card
as Brontë's Mother
1990
6.1
Law & Order
as Eunice Varick
1990
7.4
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
6.0
American Experience
as (voice)
1988
7.4
Midnight Run
as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
1988
7.2
thirtysomething
1987
6.1
Fatal Attraction
as Martha
1987
6.8
Black Widow
as Sara
1987
6.2
Doubletake
as Sarah
1985
5.2
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Mary Neal
1985
6.4
Spenser: For Hire
1985
6.7
The Equalizer
as Marie Ganucci
1985
7.2
The Equalizer
as Dorothy Hermes
1985
7.2
Twisted
as Helen Giles
1985
5.1
Reckless
as Mrs. Prescott
1984
5.8
Reuben, Reuben
as Mare Spofford
1983
6.5
Rage of Angels
as Clara
1983
5.5
Four Friends
as Mrs. Carnahan
1981
6.9
🎬
The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
1981
0.0
Resurrection
as Kathy
1980
6.5
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Cornelia
1980
0.0
Foxes
as Mrs. Axman
1980
5.9
Tales of the Unexpected
as Sara
1979
6.7
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
as Anita Cunningham
1976
6.4
Up the Sandbox
as Elinore
1972
5.8
Particular Men
1972
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Five Easy Pieces
as Partita Dupea
1970
7.1
The Way We Live Now
as Jane Aldridge
1970
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🎬
Somerset
as Zoe Cannell
1970
5.0
Dragon Country
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
1970
5.0
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Evelyn
1967
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CBS Playhouse
1966
7.0
Dr. Kildare
as Libby Clayton
1961
5.5
The Defenders
as Esther Terranova
1961
6.2
Route 66
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Dana
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Lucy Brown
1960
6.3
The Master Builder
as Hilda
1960
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Startime
1959
6.0
Naked City
as Dawn Garrison
1958
5.5
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
5.1
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Strange Lady in Town
as Spurs O'Brien
1955
4.5
East of Eden
as Anne
1955
7.5
The United States Steel Hour
as Jeannie
1953
6.2
Letter to Loretta
as Jenny Musgrave
1953
6.5
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
Studio One
as Lisa Molloy
1948
5.0
🎬
The Steel Harp
N/A
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