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Lois Smith
Known for: ActingLois 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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Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan 
Minority Report
as Dr. Iris Hineman 
The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn 
Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother 
East of Eden
as Anne 
Run All Night
as Margaret Conlon 
Fatal Attraction
as Martha 
Twister
as Aunt Meg 
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette 
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode 
Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother 
The Pledge
as Helen Jackson 
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Aunt Mel 
Black Widow
as Sara 
The Uninvited
as Helen 
Five Easy Pieces
as Partita Dupea 
How to Make an American Quilt
as Sophia 
Green Card
as Brontë's Mother 
Uncle Frank
as Aunt Butch 
Hollywoodland
as Helen Bessolo 
Griffin & Phoenix
as Dr. Imberman 
Killshot
as Lenore 
The Laramie Project
as Lucy Thompson 
Larger Than Life
as Luluna 
Tumbleweeds
as Ginger 
P.S.
as Ellie Silverstein 
Mack & Rita
as Betty 
The Eternal
as Mrs. Ferriter 
The Comedian
as Miriam 
Iron Jawed Angels
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw 
Please Give
as Mrs. Portman 
Sweet Land
as Inge (as an older woman) 
Foxes
as Mrs. Axman 
A Dog Year
as Lois Blair 
Reckless
as Mrs. Prescott 
Coney Island
as (voice) 
Diminished Capacity
as Belle 
A Foreign Affair
as Ma Adams 
Strange Lady in Town
as Spurs O'Brien 
Marjorie Prime
as Marjorie 
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Mary Neal 
The Donner Party
as voice 
Turn the River
as Abby 
Hudson River Blues
as Julia 
Resurrection
as Kathy 
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Cornelia 
Hard Promises
as Mrs. Bell 
On the End
as Trudie Ferreira