Lois Smith
Date of birth: 1930-11-03
Place of birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lois Arlene Humbert, Lois Arlene Smith, لوئیس اسمیت
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Minority Report
2002-06-20
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes b
East of Eden
1955-04-10
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelmin
Hollywoodland
2006-08-31
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to in
Twister
1996-05-10
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by
Dead Man Walking
1995-12-29
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul
Holy Matrimony
1994-04-08
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.
Sweet Land
2005-10-21
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be he
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976-02-04
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the boh
How to Make an American Quilt
1995-10-06
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin
P.S.
2004-10-15
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meet
Five Easy Pieces
1970-09-12
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with
A Dog Year
2009-09-03
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's
Turn the River
2008-05-09
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Skylark
1993-02-07
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay,
The Uninvited
2025-04-11
Rose and Sammy enjoy an idyllic life with love, a Hollywood Hills home, and a curious son. During a
Iron Jawed Angels
2004-01-16
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to
Black Widow
1987-02-06
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012-08-15
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon,
The Eternal
1998-09-18
An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but the
Little Fugitive
2006-05-27
Set in present day Brooklyn, this film is a remake of the 1953 classic, "Little Fugitive." With his
The Best Thief in the World
2004-01-01
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartm
Roadie
2012-01-06
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life wi
Strange Lady in Town
1955-04-12
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 18
Twisted
1985-08-23
One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. O
The Donner Party
1992-10-28
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985-11-17
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now aw
Doubletake
1985-11-24
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991-12-27
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her th
Showing Up
2014-02-25
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists in
Dragon Country
1970-12-03
Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years a
Red Betsy
2003-03-27
A close-knit Midwestern farm family deals with loss, change, and social progress during the 1940's.
Hello Actors Studio
1988-11-09
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the
Little Fugitive
2006-05-27
Set in present day Brooklyn, this film is a remake of the 1953 classic, "Little Fugitive." With his
Coney Island
1991-02-04
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of
Falling Down
1993-02-26
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and vio
The Steel Harp
Hanna, a cantankerous nonagenarian, patrols the Golden Gate Bridge every day and intervenes when peo
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967-10-17
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physica
The Laramie Project
2002-01-10
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-ye
Please Give
2010-04-30
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who liv
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005-05-11
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career.
Run All Night
2015-03-11
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a m
The House of Mirth
1981-01-01
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and
Green Card
1990-12-23
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board
Powder Keg
2001-06-01
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of
Fatal Attraction
1987-09-18
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his
Larger Than Life
1996-07-26
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest g
The Nice Guys
2016-05-15
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncov
Griffin & Phoenix
2006-09-12
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent tog
Resurrection
1980-09-26
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she h
Marjorie Prime
2017-01-23
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to sp
Particular Men
1972-04-15
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows severa
The Comedian
2016-12-09
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013-10-10
In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a v
Hard Promises
1992-01-31
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his
Lady Bird
2017-09-01
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacra
Reuben, Reuben
1983-12-19
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his
Foxes
1980-02-29
A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing
Truman
1995-09-09
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm
Up the Sandbox
1972-12-21
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother sl
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021-10-21
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an
Tumbleweeds
1999-11-24
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter,
The Pledge
2001-01-19
A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
The Gettysburg Address
2025-11-19
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" invest
The Master Builder
1960-03-21
Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who r
Uncle Frank
2020-11-25
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekv
Midnight Run
1988-07-20
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980-03-03
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor
Deadly Matrimony
1992-11-22
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind
Tesla
2020-08-14
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched techno
Four Friends
1981-12-11
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991-05-05
When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luci
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020-10-08
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fu
The Grapes of Wrath
1991-03-22
A stage presentation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". The Steppenwolf Theater Company's pr
Mack & Rita
2022-08-12
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transform
Reckless
1984-02-03
Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girl
The Way We Live Now
1970-05-27
A mid-life crisis propels a disaffected advertising executive out of his marriage and into a series
Keep the Change
1992-06-09
A struggling artist visits his family on their Montana ranch and finds that his former flame, daught
Hudson River Blues
1997-12-12
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Rob
Diminished Capacity
2008-07-04
A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural h
Lightning Bug
2025-10-04
When a family dinner spirals into theatrics, retired actress Lydia must take control of the situatio
On the End
2025-10-04
Tom, a curmudgeonly Montauk mechanic, unexpectedly finds love online with Freckles, a spitfire outca