
Lois Smith
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.047 |
Birthday | 1930-11-03 |
Place of Birth | Topeka, Kansas, USA |
Also Known As | Lois Arlene Humbert, Lois Arlene Smith, لوئیس اسمیت, |

2002

Minority Report
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1955

East of Eden
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2006

Hollywoodland
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1996

Twister
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1995

Dead Man Walking
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1994

Holy Matrimony
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2005

Sweet Land
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1976

Next Stop, Greenwich Village
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1995

How to Make an American Quilt
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2004

P.S.
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1970

Five Easy Pieces
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2009

A Dog Year
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2008

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1993

Skylark
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2004

Iron Jawed Angels
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1987

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2012

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1998

The Eternal
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2006

Little Fugitive
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2004

The Best Thief in the World
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2012

Roadie
5.9/28
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Strange Lady in Town
4.5/8
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1985

Twisted
5.2/13
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1992

The Donner Party
6.8/11
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1985

The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.6/8
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1985

Doubletake
5.2/5
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1991

Fried Green Tomatoes
7.701/1366
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2014

Showing Up
9.2/3
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1970

Dragon Country
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2003

Red Betsy
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1988

Hello Actors Studio
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2006

Little Fugitive
6.5/2
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1991

Coney Island
6/1
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1993

Falling Down
7.389/3728
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The Steel Harp
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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2002

The Laramie Project
6.5/53
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2010

Please Give
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2005

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2015

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1981

The House of Mirth
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1990

Green Card
6.1/492
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2001

Powder Keg
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1987

Fatal Attraction
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1996

Larger Than Life
5.5/140
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2016

The Nice Guys
7.1/8031
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2006

Griffin & Phoenix
7/160
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1980

Resurrection
6.5/43
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2017

Marjorie Prime
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1972

Particular Men
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2016

The Comedian
5.7/156
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2013

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
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1992

Hard Promises
5.2/9
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2017

Lady Bird
7.259/8622
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1983

Reuben, Reuben
6.5/22
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1980

Foxes
5.9/92
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1995

Truman
7.6/15
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1972

Up the Sandbox
5.9/18
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2021

The French Dispatch
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1999

Tumbleweeds
6.5/45
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2001

The Pledge
6.561/1079
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2025

The Gettysburg Address
0/0
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1960

The Master Builder
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2020

Uncle Frank
7.3/411
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1991

Switched at Birth
6/6
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1988

Midnight Run
7.184/1118
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1980

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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1992

Deadly Matrimony
4.4/5
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2020

Tesla
5.8/335
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1981

Four Friends
6.882/34
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1991

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
6/1
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2020

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
10/2
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1991

The Grapes of Wrath
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2022

Mack & Rita
5.6/63
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1984

Reckless
5.8/30
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1970

The Way We Live Now
0/0
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1992

Keep the Change
6/2
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1997

Hudson River Blues
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2008

Diminished Capacity
5.6/16
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