Lois Smith

ActorCrew Nov 3 (age 95) Topeka, Kansas, USA 1948–2025 (77 year career)

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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 lead…

Known For

Film

Minority Report

Dr. Iris Hineman

Film

Lady Bird

Sister Sarah Joan

Film

The Nice Guys

Mrs. Glenn

Film

Falling Down

D-Fens' Mother

Film

True Blood

Adele Stackhouse

Film

Fried Green Tomatoes

Mama Threadgoode

Film

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

Film

Twister

Aunt Meg

Filmography

Acting (133)

Movies (80)

The Gettysburg Address

2025

as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)

The Uninvited

2025

as Helen

5.7

Lightning Bug

2025

as Lydia

On the End

2025

as Trudie Ferreira

Mack & Rita

2022

as Betty

5.4

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

2021

as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

7.0

Tesla

2020

as The Grande Dame

5.8

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

as Harper Pitt

Uncle Frank

as Aunt Butch

Lady Bird

as Sister Sarah Joan

Marjorie Prime

as Marjorie

The Nice Guys

as Mrs. Glenn

The Comedian

as Miriam

Run All Night

as Margaret Conlon

Showing Up

as Self

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

2013

as The Youngest Daughter (later)

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

as Aunt Mel

Roadie

as Mom

Please Give

as Mrs. Portman

A Dog Year

as Lois Blair

Diminished Capacity

as Belle

Turn the River

as Abby

Hollywoodland

as Helen Bessolo

Griffin & Phoenix

as Dr. Imberman

Little Fugitive

as Elizabeth

Sweet Land

as Inge (as an older woman)

6.4

James Dean: Sense Memories

2005

as Self

P.S.

2004

as Ellie Silverstein

5.6

Iron Jawed Angels

2004

as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

6.8

The Best Thief in the World

2004

as Helen

4.2

Red Betsy

2003

as Helen Rounds

Minority Report

as Dr. Iris Hineman

The Laramie Project

as Lucy Thompson

The Pledge

as Helen Jackson

Powder Keg

as Mother

Tumbleweeds

as Ginger

The Eternal

as Mrs. Ferriter

Hudson River Blues

Twister

as Aunt Meg

Larger Than Life

as Luluna

Dead Man Walking

as Helen's Mother

How to Make an American Quilt

1995

as Sophia

6.4

Truman

1995

as Madge Wallace Gates

Holy Matrimony

as Orna

Falling Down

as D-Fens' Mother

Skylark

as Lou Wheaton

Deadly Matrimony

Keep the Change

as Lureen

The Donner Party

as voice

Hard Promises

as Mrs. Bell

Fried Green Tomatoes

as Mama Threadgoode

Coney Island

as (voice)

The Grapes of Wrath

as Ma Joad

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

as Alice Todd

Green Card

as Brontë's Mother

Midnight Run

as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend

Hello Actors Studio

as Self

Black Widow

as Sara

Fatal Attraction

as Martha

Twisted

as Helen Giles

Doubletake

as Sarah

The Execution of Raymond Graham

as Mary Neal

Reckless

as Mrs. Prescott

Reuben, Reuben

as Mare Spofford

Four Friends

as Mrs. Carnahan

The House of Mirth

as Bertha Dorset

Resurrection

as Kathy

Foxes

as Mrs. Axman

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1980

as Cornelia

4.0

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

as Anita Cunningham

Particular Men

Up the Sandbox

as Elinore

Five Easy Pieces

as Partita Dupea

The Way We Live Now

as Jane Aldridge

Dragon Country

1970

as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")

5.0

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1967

as Evelyn

The Master Builder

1960

as Hilda

East of Eden

as Anne

Strange Lady in Town

as Spurs O'Brien

The Steel Harp

as Hanna

Television (53)

Elsbeth

as Delores Feinn

This Fool

as Beverly

Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021

as Doris 'Mama' Boone

7.9

Gossip Girl

2021

as Iris Lefferts

7.3

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

2019

as Mimi Waldenstock

6.5

Impulse

2018

as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones

9JKL

as Wrong Nana

Younger

as Belinda Lacroix

Sneaky Pete

as Reverend Ethel Landry

Grace and Frankie

as Mrs. Hanson

The Affair

as Mrs. Gunther

The Blacklist

as Lucy Game

Mom

as Claire

The Americans

as Betty Turner

Ray Donovan

as Dolores

Ruth & Erica

as Ruth

True Blood

as Adele Stackhouse

True Blood

as Adele Stackhouse

Army Wives

as Elsie

Grey's Anatomy

as Mrs. Dickerson

Desperate Housewives

as Allison Scavo

LAX

as Rose Sinclair

Cold Case

as Fannie

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Betty Bennett

The Hire

as Mother

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Rebecca Tolliver

A Will of their Own

as Miss Maude

The Practice

as Mary Beth Berluti

Just Shoot Me!

as Libby

as Gracie

Touched by an Angel

as Mildred Mancini

Frasier

as Moira

Good Sports

Switched at Birth

as Margaret

Law & Order

as Eunice Varick

American Experience

as (voice)

thirtysomething

The Equalizer

as Marie Ganucci

Spenser: For Hire

Rage of Angels

as Clara

Tales of the Unexpected

as Sara

CBS Playhouse

Dr. Kildare

as Libby Clayton

The Defenders

as Esther Terranova

Route 66

Startime

Naked City

as Dawn Garrison

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee/Performer

5.9

Matinee Theater

1955

5.0

The United States Steel Hour

as Jeannie

Letter to Loretta

as Jenny Musgrave

Robert Montgomery Presents

Studio One

as Lisa Molloy

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Eye of God

1997

Thanks

5.7