Lois Smith
Acting
Born 1930-11-03
Topeka, Kansas, USA
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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.
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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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Grey's Anatomy
Law & Order
The Blacklist
Desperate Housewives
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Frasier
Elsbeth
Cold Case
ER
True Blood
Mom
The Americans
Tony Awards
Matinee Theater
Army Wives
American Experience
The Practice
Robert Montgomery Presents
Touched by an Angel
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Younger
The Equalizer
Ray Donovan
Tales of the Unexpected
Dr. Kildare
Just Shoot Me!
The Affair
Naked City
Studio One
Grace and Frankie
Route 66
Sneaky Pete
The Defenders
Minority Report
Lady Bird
American Playhouse
The Nice Guys
thirtysomething
Twister
Falling Down
Gossip Girl
Spenser: For Hire
Run All Night
Impulse
The United States Steel Hour
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Fatal Attraction
Fried Green Tomatoes
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Midnight Run
CBS Playhouse
Startime
LAX
This Fool
The Pledge
East of Eden
The Hire
Dead Man Walking
Tesla
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