
Actor
Born November 3, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas, USA
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.

The Gettysburg Address
Elizabeth Crawford (voice)

Lightning Bug
Lydia

On the End
Trudie Ferreira

The Uninvited
Helen

Elsbeth
Delores Feinn

Mack & Rita
Betty

This Fool
Beverly

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

Gossip Girl
Iris Lefferts

Law & Order: Organized Crime
Doris 'Mama' Boone

Uncle Frank
Aunt Butch

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Harper Pitt

Tesla
The Grande Dame

On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Mimi Waldenstock

Impulse
Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones

9JKL
Wrong Nana

Lady Bird
Sister Sarah Joan

Marjorie Prime
Marjorie

The Comedian
Miriam

The Nice Guys
Mrs. Glenn

Sneaky Pete
Reverend Ethel Landry

Grace and Frankie
Mrs. Hanson

Younger
Belinda Lacroix

Run All Night
Margaret Conlon

The Affair
Mrs. Gunther

Showing Up
Self

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
The Youngest Daughter (later)

Mom
Claire

The Blacklist
Lucy Game

Ray Donovan
Dolores

The Americans
Betty Turner

Ruth & Erica
Ruth

The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Aunt Mel

Roadie
Mom

Please Give
Mrs. Portman

A Dog Year
Lois Blair

True Blood
Adele Stackhouse

Diminished Capacity
Belle

Turn the River
Abby

Army Wives
Elsie

Griffin & Phoenix
Dr. Imberman

Hollywoodland
Helen Bessolo

Sweet Land
Inge (as an older woman)

James Dean: Sense Memories
Self

Grey's Anatomy
Mrs. Dickerson

P.S.
Ellie Silverstein

Desperate Housewives
Allison Scavo

LAX
Rose Sinclair

Iron Jawed Angels
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

The Best Thief in the World
Helen

Cold Case
Fannie

Red Betsy
Helen Rounds

Minority Report
Dr. Iris Hineman

The Laramie Project
Lucy Thompson

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Betty Bennett

Powder Keg
Mother

The Hire
Mother

The Pledge
Helen Jackson

Tumbleweeds
Ginger

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Rebecca Tolliver

A Will of their Own
Miss Maude

The Eternal
Mrs. Ferriter

Hudson River Blues

Eye of God

Just Shoot Me!
Libby

The Practice
Mary Beth Berluti

Larger Than Life
Luluna

Twister
Aunt Meg

Dead Man Walking
Helen's Mother

How to Make an American Quilt
Sophia

Truman
Madge Wallace Gates

Touched by an Angel
Mildred Mancini

ER
Gracie

Holy Matrimony
Orna

Frasier
Moira

Falling Down
D-Fens' Mother

Skylark
Lou Wheaton

Deadly Matrimony

The Donner Party
voice

Keep the Change
Lureen

Hard Promises
Mrs. Bell

Fried Green Tomatoes
Mama Threadgoode

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Alice Todd

Switched at Birth
Margaret

The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad

Coney Island
(voice)

Good Sports
Mrs. Tannen

Green Card
Brontë's Mother

Law & Order
Eunice Varick

Hello Actors Studio
Self

American Experience
(voice)

Midnight Run
Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend

thirtysomething

Fatal Attraction
Martha

Black Widow
Sara

Doubletake
Sarah

The Execution of Raymond Graham
Mary Neal

Spenser: For Hire

The Equalizer
Marie Ganucci

Twisted
Helen Giles

Reckless
Mrs. Prescott

Reuben, Reuben
Mare Spofford

Rage of Angels
Clara

American Playhouse
Ma Joad

Four Friends
Mrs. Carnahan

Resurrection
Kathy

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Cornelia

Foxes
Mrs. Axman

Tales of the Unexpected
Sara

Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Anita Cunningham

Up the Sandbox
Elinore

Particular Men

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

Five Easy Pieces
Partita Dupea

The Way We Live Now
Jane Aldridge

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Evelyn

Dr. Kildare
Libby Clayton

The Defenders
Esther Terranova

Route 66

The Master Builder
Hilda

Startime
Cindy

Naked City
Dawn Garrison

Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer

Matinee Theater

Strange Lady in Town
Spurs O'Brien

East of Eden
Anne

The United States Steel Hour
Jeannie

Letter to Loretta
Jenny Musgrave

Robert Montgomery Presents

Studio One
Lisa Molloy