Lois Smith

Known for ActingBorn 1930-11-03 (age 95)Topeka, Kansas, USA

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.Read more

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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

The Grapes of Wrath

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

The Master Builder

Showing Up

Red Betsy

The Way We Live Now

Grey's Anatomy

Ruth & Erica

Law & Order: Organized Crime

The Americans

Hudson River Blues

Desperate Housewives

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Coney Island

Grace and Frankie

Cold Case

The House of Mirth

Impulse

The Blacklist

ER

Particular Men

True Blood

The Hire

Sneaky Pete

The Practice

Ray Donovan

Frasier

This Fool

Truman

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Fried Green Tomatoes

Army Wives

Gossip Girl

Uncle Frank

A Will of their Own

Mom

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

Minority Report

LAX

Lady Bird

Falling Down

The Nice Guys

Dead Man Walking

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Law & Order

Touched by an Angel

The Odd Life of Timothy Green