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.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
as Hanna
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
as Lydia
as Trudie Ferreira
as Helen
as Delores Feinn(1 ep)
as Betty
as Beverly(1 ep)
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
as Iris Lefferts(1 ep)
as Doris 'Mama' Boone(3 eps)
as Aunt Butch
as Harper Pitt
as The Grande Dame
as Mimi Waldenstock(2 eps)
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones(1 ep)
as Wrong Nana(1 ep)
as Sister Sarah Joan
as Marjorie
as Miriam
as Mrs. Glenn
as Reverend Ethel Landry(2 eps)
as Mrs. Hanson(2 eps)
as Belinda Lacroix(1 ep)
as Margaret Conlon
as Mrs. Gunther(1 ep)
as Self
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
as Claire(1 ep)
as Lucy Game(1 ep)
as Dolores(2 eps)
as Betty Turner(1 ep)
as Ruth(7 eps)
as Aunt Mel
as Mom
as Mrs. Portman
as Lois Blair
as Lenore
as Adele Stackhouse(14 eps)
as Belle
as Abby
as Elsie(1 ep)
as Dr. Imberman
as Helen Bessolo
as Elizabeth
as Social Worker
as Inge (as an older woman)
as Self
as Mrs. Dickerson(1 ep)
as Ellie Silverstein
as Allison Scavo(2 eps)
as Rose Sinclair(1 ep)
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
as Helen
as Fannie(1 ep)
as Ma Adams
as Helen Rounds
as Dr. Iris Hineman
as Lucy Thompson
as Betty Bennett(1 ep)
as Mother
as Mother(1 ep)
as Helen Jackson
as Ginger
as Rebecca Tolliver(1 ep)
as Miss Maude(2 eps)
as Mrs. Ferriter
as Julia
as Libby(1 ep)
as Mary Beth Berluti(1 ep)
as Luluna
as Aunt Meg
as Helen's Mother
as Sophia
as Madge Wallace Gates
as Mildred Mancini(1 ep)
as Gracie(4 eps)
as Orna
as Moira(1 ep)
as D-Fens' Mother
as Lou Wheaton
as voice
as Lureen
as Mrs. Bell
as Mama Threadgoode
as Alice Todd
as Margaret(2 eps)
as Ma Joad
as (voice)
as Mrs. Tannen(3 eps)
as Brontë's Mother
as Eunice Varick(1 ep)
as Self
as (voice)(2 eps)
as Mrs. Nelson
as Martha
as Sara
as Sarah
as Mary Neal
as Marie Ganucci(1 ep)
as Dorothy Hermes(1 ep)
as Helen Giles
as Mrs. Prescott
as Mare Spofford
as Clara(2 eps)
as Ma Joad(1 ep)
as Mrs. Carnahan
as Bertha Dorset
as Kathy
as Cornelia
as Mrs. Axman
as Sara(1 ep)
as Anita Cunningham
as Elinore
as Anne Starr
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
as Partita Dupea
as Jane Aldridge
as Evelyn(1 ep)
as Libby Clayton(1 ep)
as Esther Terranova(1 ep)
as Dana(1 ep)
as Lucy Brown(1 ep)
as Hilda
as Cindy(1 ep)
as Dawn Garrison(1 ep)
as Self - Nominee / Performer(1 ep)
as Self - Nominee(1 ep)
as Spurs O'Brien
as Anne
as Jeannie(1 ep)
as Jenny Musgrave(1 ep)
as Lisa Molloy(1 ep)