Lois Smith
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Lois Smith

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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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Films Featuring Lois Smith

Minority Report

20027.4

East of Eden

19557.5

Hollywoodland

20066.1

Twister

19966.6

Dead Man Walking

19957.3

Holy Matrimony

19945.3

Sweet Land

20056.3

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

19766.4

How to Make an American Quilt

19956.4

P.S.

20045.6

Five Easy Pieces

19707.1

A Dog Year

20096.1

Turn the River

20085.3

Skylark

19937.0

The Uninvited

20255.7

Iron Jawed Angels

20046.8

Black Widow

19876.2

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

20127.0

The Eternal

19984.8

Little Fugitive

20066.5

The Best Thief in the World

20044.6

Roadie

20125.8

Strange Lady in Town

19554.9

Twisted

19854.9

The Donner Party

19927.0

The Execution of Raymond Graham

19856.6

Doubletake

19855.0

Fried Green Tomatoes

19917.7

Showing Up

20149.2

Dragon Country

19706.5

Red Betsy

20039.0

Hello Actors Studio

19886.7

Little Fugitive

20066.5

Coney Island

19918.0

Falling Down

19937.4

The Steel Harp

The Steel Harp

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

196710.0

The Laramie Project

20026.3

Please Give

20106.2

James Dean: Sense Memories

2005

Run All Night

20156.4

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

19818.0

Green Card

19906.1

Powder Keg

20016.9

Fatal Attraction

19876.8

Larger Than Life

19965.5

The Nice Guys

20167.1

Griffin & Phoenix

20067.1

Resurrection

19806.5

Marjorie Prime

20176.1

Particular Men

19728.0

The Comedian

20165.7

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

2013

Hard Promises

19925.8

Lady Bird

20177.2

Reuben, Reuben

19836.4

Foxes

19806.0

Truman

19957.7

Up the Sandbox

19725.9

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

20217.0

Tumbleweeds

19996.4

The Pledge

20016.6

The Gettysburg Address

2025

The Master Builder

196010.0

Uncle Frank

20207.3

Midnight Run

19887.2

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

19804.0

Deadly Matrimony

19925.6

Tesla

20205.7

Four Friends

19816.8

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

19917.5

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

202010.0

The Grapes of Wrath

199110.0

Mack & Rita

20225.5

Reckless

19845.8

The Way We Live Now

19709.0

Keep the Change

19927.0

Hudson River Blues

19978.0

Diminished Capacity

20085.6

Lightning Bug

2025

On the End

2025

Killshot

20085.8

A Foreign Affair

20045.4