
Lois Smith
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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 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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Known For

The Ed Sullivan Show

Law & Order

Tony Awards

Desperate Housewives

Law & Order: Organized Crime

The Equalizer

Grey's Anatomy

The Blacklist

Mom

The Americans

Younger

Touched by an Angel

Grace and Frankie

ER

Cold Case

Matinee Theater

The Defenders

Gossip Girl

Ray Donovan

The Practice

Dr. Kildare

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

Sneaky Pete

Letter to Loretta

This Fool

Route 66

Robert Montgomery Presents

Just Shoot Me!

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Frasier

CBS Playhouse

9JKL

LAX

Startime

Studio One

Good Sports

Tesla

Midnight Run

Somerset

The Laramie Project

Rage of Angels

The French Dispatch

A Will of their Own

True Blood

Fried Green Tomatoes

Run All Night

Minority Report

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

The Nice Guys

Fatal Attraction

Uncle Frank

East of Eden

Switched at Birth

Lady Bird

Falling Down

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Twister

A Dog Year
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