Lois Smith

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-11-03 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

Topeka, Kansas, USA

Lois Smith

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 Satu...

Acting

2002

Minority Report

as Dr. Iris Hineman

1955

2006

Hollywoodland

as Helen Bessolo

1996

Twister

as Aunt Meg

1995

Dead Man Walking

as Helen's Mother

1994

2005

Sweet Land

as Inge (as an older woman)

1976

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

as Anita Cunningham

2004

P.S.

as Ellie Silverstein

1970

Five Easy Pieces

as Partita Dupea

2009

A Dog Year

as Lois Blair

2008

1993

Skylark

as Lou Wheaton

2025

2004

Iron Jawed Angels

as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

1987

1998

The Eternal

as Mrs. Ferriter

2006

Little Fugitive

as Elizabeth

2012

Roadie

as Mom

1955

Strange Lady in Town

as Spurs O'Brien

1985

Twisted

as Helen Giles

1992

1985

Doubletake

as Sarah

1991

Fried Green Tomatoes

as Mama Threadgoode

2014

Showing Up

as Self

1970

Dragon Country

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

2003

Red Betsy

as Helen Rounds

2006

Little Fugitive

as Social Worker

1991

Coney Island

as (voice)

1993

Falling Down

as D-Fens' Mother

2002

The Laramie Project

as Lucy Thompson

2010

Please Give

as Mrs. Portman

2015

Run All Night

as Margaret Conlon

1981

The House of Mirth

as Bertha Dorset

1990

Green Card

as Brontë's Mother

2001

Powder Keg

as Mother

1987

1996

2016

The Nice Guys

as Mrs. Glenn

2006

Griffin & Phoenix

as Dr. Imberman

1980

Resurrection

as Kathy

2017

Marjorie Prime

as Marjorie

2016

The Comedian

as Miriam

2013

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

as The Youngest Daughter (later)

1992

Hard Promises

as Mrs. Bell

2017

Lady Bird

as Sister Sarah Joan

1983

Reuben, Reuben

as Mare Spofford

1980

Foxes

as Mrs. Axman

1995

Truman

as Madge Wallace Gates

1972

Up the Sandbox

as Elinore

2021

The French Dispatch

as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

1999

Tumbleweeds

as Ginger

2001

The Pledge

as Helen Jackson

2025

The Gettysburg Address

as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)

1960

2020

Uncle Frank

as Aunt Butch

1991

1988

Midnight Run

as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend

2020

Tesla

as The Grande Dame

1981

Four Friends

as Mrs. Carnahan

1991

2022

Mack & Rita

as Betty

1984

Reckless

as Mrs. Prescott

1970

The Way We Live Now

as Jane Aldridge

1992

Production

1997

Eye of God

as Thanks

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