Lois Smith
- Recitazione
- 3 novembre 1930 · Topeka, Kansas, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- The Gettysburg Address · Elizabeth Crawford (Voce)
- 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
- Zio 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 - Una notte per sopravvivere · Margaret Conlon
- The Affair - Una relazione pericolosa · Mrs. Gunther
- Showing Up · In persona
- 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
- L'incredibile vita di Timothy Green · Aunt Mel
- Roadie · Mom
- Please Give · Mrs. Portman
- Pet Therapy - Un cane per amico · Lois Blair
- Killshot · Lenore
- True Blood · Adele Stackhouse
- Memorie di pesce rosso · Belle
- Turn the River · Abby
- Army Wives - Conflitti del cuore · Elsie
- Griffin & Phoenix · Dr. Imberman
- Hollywoodland · Helen Bessolo
- Little Fugitive · Elizabeth, Social Worker
- Sweet Land · Inge (as an older woman)
- James Dean: Sense Memories · In persona
- Grey's Anatomy · Mrs. Dickerson
- P.S. I love you · Ellie Silverstein
- Desperate Housewives - I segreti di Wisteria Lane · Allison Scavo
- LAX · Rose Sinclair
- Angeli d'acciaio · Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
- The Best Thief in the World · Helen
- Cold Case - Delitti irrisolti · Fannie
- A Foreign Affair · Ma Adams
- 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
- La promessa · Helen Jackson
- In cerca d'amore · Ginger
- Law & Order - Unità vittime speciali · Rebecca Tolliver
- A Will of their Own · Miss Maude
- The Eternal · Mrs. Ferriter
- Hudson River Blues · Julia
- Eye of God · Ringraziamenti
- Just Shoot Me! · Libby
- The Practice - Professione avvocati · Mary Beth Berluti
- Per amore di Vera · Luluna
- Twister · Aunt Meg
- Dead Man Walking - Condannato a morte · Helen's Mother
- Gli anni dei ricordi · Sophia
- Truman · Madge Wallace Gates
- Il tocco di un angelo · Mildred Mancini
- E.R. - Medici in prima linea · Gracie
- Marito a sorpresa · Orna
- Frasier · Moira
- Un giorno di ordinaria follia · D-Fens' Mother
- Sarah: l'allodola · Lou Wheaton