Birthday
1930/11/03 (94 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Also know as
Lois Arlene Humbert, Lois Arlene 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 lead...Read more
(2002) Minority Report
as Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse]
(1955) East of Eden
as Anne
(2006) Hollywoodland
as Helen Bessolo
(1996) Twister
as Aunt Meg
(1995) Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother
(1994) Holy Matrimony
as Orna
(2005) Sweet Land
as Inge (as an older woman)
(1976) Next Stop, Greenwich Village
as Anita Cunningham
(1995) How to Make an American Quilt
as Sophia
(2004) P.S.
as Ellie Silverstein
(1970) Five Easy Pieces
as Partita Dupea
(2009) A Dog Year
as Lois Blair
(2008) Turn the River
as Abby
(1993) Skylark
as Lou Wheaton
(2024) The Uninvited
as Helen
(2004) Iron Jawed Angels
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
(1987) Black Widow
as Sara
(2012) The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Aunt Mel
(1998) The Eternal
as Mrs. Ferriter
(2006) Little Fugitive
as Elizabeth
(2004) The Best Thief in the World
as Helen
(2012) Roadie
as Mom
(1955) Strange Lady in Town
as Spurs O'Brien
(1985) Twisted
as Helen Giles
(1992) The Donner Party
as voice
(1985) The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Mary Neal
(1985) Doubletake
as Sarah
(1991) Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode
(2014) Showing Up
as Self
(1970) Dragon Country
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
(2003) Red Betsy
as Helen Rounds
(1988) Hello Actors Studio
as Self
(2006) Little Fugitive
as Social Worker
(1991) Coney Island
as (voice)
(1993) Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother
The Steel Harp
as ---
(1967) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Evelyn
(2002) The Laramie Project
as Lucy Thompson
(2010) Please Give
as Mrs. Portman
(2005) James Dean: Sense Memories
as Self
(2015) Run All Night
as Margaret Conlon
(1981) The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
(1990) Green Card
as Brontë's Mother
(2001) Powder Keg
as Mother
(1987) Fatal Attraction
as Martha
(1996) Larger Than Life
as Luluna
(2016) The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn
(2006) Griffin & Phoenix
as Dr. Imberman
(1980) Resurrection
as Kathy
(2017) Marjorie Prime
as Marjorie
(1972) Particular Men
as ---
(2016) The Comedian
as Miriam
(2013) The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
(1992) Hard Promises
as Mrs. Bell
(2017) Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan
(1983) Reuben, Reuben
as Mare Spofford
(1980) Foxes
as Mrs. Axman
(1995) Truman
as Madge Wallace Gates
(1972) Up the Sandbox
as Elinore
(2021) The French Dispatch
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
(1999) Tumbleweeds
as Ginger
(2001) The Pledge
as Helen Jackson
(2025) The Gettysburg Address
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
(1960) The Master Builder
as Hilda
(2020) Uncle Frank
as Aunt Butch
(1991) Switched at Birth
as Margaret
(1988) Midnight Run
as Mrs. Nelson
(1980) The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Cornelia
(1992) Deadly Matrimony
as ---
(2020) Tesla
as The Grande Dame
(1981) Four Friends
as Mrs. Carnahan
(1991) White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
as Alice Todd
(2020) The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Harper Pitt
(1991) The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
(2022) Mack & Rita
as Betty
(1984) Reckless
as Mrs. Prescott
(1970) The Way We Live Now
as Jane Aldridge
(1992) Keep the Change
as Lureen
(1997) Hudson River Blues
as ---
(2008) Diminished Capacity
as Belle
(1985) Spenser: For Hire
as ---
(1987) thirtysomething
as ---
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Mildred Mancini
(2003) Cold Case
as Fannie
(1960) Route 66
as ---
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Sara
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rebecca Tolliver
(1958) Naked City
as Dawn Garrison
(1993) Frasier
as Moira
(1997) The Practice
as ---
(2004) LAX
as Rose Sinclair
(1948) Studio One
as Lisa Molloy
(1985) The Equalizer
as Marie Ganucci
(1997) Just Shoot Me!
as Libby
(1994) ER
as Gracie
(1970) Somerset
as Zoe Cannell
(2001) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Betty Bennett
(2008) True Blood
as Adele Stackhouse
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1990) Law & Order
as Eunice Varick
(1966) CBS Playhouse
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Libby Clayton
(1961) The Defenders
as Esther Terranova
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Jenny Musgrave
(1959) Startime
as ---
(2015) Younger
as Belinda Lacroix
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
(2013) Mom
as Claire
(2005) Grey's Anatomy
as Mrs. Dickerson
(2001) The Hire
as Mother
(1983) Rage of Angels
as Clara
(2017) 9JKL
as Wrong Nana
(1998) A Will of their Own
as Miss Maude
(1988) American Experience
as (voice)
(2018) Impulse
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
(1960) Route 66
as Dana
(1953) The United States Steel Hour
as Jeannie
(2012) Ruth & Erica
as Ruth
(2021) Gossip Girl
as Iris Lefferts
(2021) Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Doris 'Mama' Boone
(2019) On Becoming a God in Central Florida
as Mimi Waldenstock
(2013) Ray Donovan
as Dolores
(2013) The Blacklist
as Lucy Game
(2015) Grace and Frankie
as Mrs. Hanson
(2004) Desperate Housewives
as Allison Scavo
(1960) Route 66
as Lucy Brown
(2015) Sneaky Pete
as Reverend Ethel Landry
(1985) The Equalizer
as Dorothy Hermes
(1991) Good Sports
as ---
(2013) The Americans
as Betty Turner
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
(2022) This Fool
as Beverly