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