Lois Smith
Biography
Movies 83
Minority Report
as Dr. Iris Hineman
2002
The Nice Guys
as Mrs. Glenn
2016
East of Eden
as Anne
1955
Twister
as Aunt Meg
1996
Lady Bird
as Sister Sarah Joan
2017
Falling Down
as D-Fens' Mother
1993
Run All Night
as Margaret Conlon
2015
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2021
Fatal Attraction
as Martha
1987
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Mama Threadgoode
1991
Uncle Frank
as Aunt Butch
2020
Dead Man Walking
as Helen's Mother
1995
Midnight Run
as Mrs. Nelson
1988
The Pledge
as Helen Jackson
2001
How to Make an American Quilt
as Sophia
1995
Hollywoodland
as Helen Bessolo
2006
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Aunt Mel
2012
Five Easy Pieces
as Partita Dupea
1970
Tesla
as The Grande Dame
2020
Black Widow
as Sara
1987
Green Card
as Brontë's Mother
1990
Killshot
as Lenore
2008
Mack & Rita
as Betty
2022
Holy Matrimony
as Orna
1994
Iron Jawed Angels
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
2004
The Gettysburg Address
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
2025
Reckless
as Mrs. Prescott
1984
Griffin & Phoenix
as Dr. Imberman
2006
The Uninvited
as Helen
2025
P.S.
as Ellie Silverstein
2004
Sweet Land
as Inge (as an older woman)
2005
The Eternal
as Mrs. Ferriter
1998
Deadly Matrimony
1992
Marjorie Prime
as Marjorie
2017
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
as Anita Cunningham
1976
Foxes
as Mrs. Axman
1980
Strange Lady in Town
as Spurs O'Brien
1955
Four Friends
as Mrs. Carnahan
1981
The Laramie Project
as Lucy Thompson
2002
Diminished Capacity
as Belle
2008
Please Give
as Mrs. Portman
2010
A Dog Year
as Lois Blair
2009
The Comedian
as Miriam
2016
Larger Than Life
as Luluna
1996
Up the Sandbox
as Elinore
1972
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
as Alice Todd
1991
Truman
as Madge Wallace Gates
1995
Roadie
as Mom
2012
The Best Thief in the World
as Helen
2004
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Harper Pitt
2020
The Execution of Raymond Graham
as Mary Neal
1985
Hard Promises
as Mrs. Bell
1992
Skylark
as Lou Wheaton
1993
Turn the River
as Abby
2008
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
Powder Keg
as Mother
2001
Tumbleweeds
as Ginger
1999
Resurrection
as Kathy
1980
Keep the Change
as Lureen
1992
Doubletake
as Sarah
1985
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
as The Youngest Daughter (later)
2013
The Donner Party
as voice
1992
The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
1991
Showing Up
as Self
2014
A Foreign Affair
as Ma Adams
2003
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Cornelia
1980
Little Fugitive
as Elizabeth
2006
Little Fugitive
as Social Worker
2006
The Way We Live Now
as Jane Aldridge
1970
James Dean: Sense Memories
as Self
2005
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Evelyn
1967
Coney Island
as (voice)
1991
Twisted
as Helen Giles
1985
Particular Men
as Anne Starr
1972
Red Betsy
as Helen Rounds
2003
Hudson River Blues
as Julia
1997
On the End
as Trudie Ferreira
2025
The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
1981
Reuben, Reuben
as Mare Spofford
1983
Dragon Country
as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
1970
The Master Builder
as Hilda
1960
Lightning Bug
as Lydia
2025
The Steel Harp
as Hanna
TV Shows 57
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rebecca Tolliver
1999
Grey's Anatomy
as Mrs. Dickerson
2005
Law & Order
as Eunice Varick
1990
Desperate Housewives
as Allison Scavo
2004
The Blacklist
as Lucy Game
2013
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Betty Bennett
2001
Frasier
as Moira
1993
ER
as Gracie
1994
Mom
as Claire
2013
Matinee Theater
1955
Cold Case
as Fannie
2003
True Blood
as Adele Stackhouse
2008
The Practice
as Mary Beth Berluti
1997
The Americans
as Betty Turner
2013
American Experience
as (voice)
1988
Elsbeth
as Delores Feinn
2024
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Performer
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Ray Donovan
as Dolores
2013
Studio One
as Lisa Molloy
1948
Touched by an Angel
as Mildred Mancini
1994
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Doris 'Mama' Boone
2021
Younger
as Belinda Lacroix
2015
American Playhouse
as Ma Joad
1982
Naked City
as Dawn Garrison
1958
Dr. Kildare
as Libby Clayton
1961
Grace and Frankie
as Mrs. Hanson
2015
Army Wives
as Elsie
2007
The Equalizer
as Marie Ganucci
1985
The Equalizer
as Dorothy Hermes
1985
Tales of the Unexpected
as Sara
1979
Route 66
1960
Route 66
as Dana
1960
Route 66
as Lucy Brown
1960
Just Shoot Me!
as Libby
1997
The Affair
as Mrs. Gunther
2014
The Defenders
as Esther Terranova
1961
Sneaky Pete
as Reverend Ethel Landry
2015
thirtysomething
1987
The United States Steel Hour
as Jeannie
1953
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Gossip Girl
as Iris Lefferts
2021
Impulse
as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
2018
Startime
as Cindy
1959
Letter to Loretta
as Jenny Musgrave
1953
The Hire
as Mother
2001
This Fool
as Beverly
2022
LAX
as Rose Sinclair
2004
CBS Playhouse
as Evelyn
1966
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
as Mimi Waldenstock
2019
9JKL
as Wrong Nana
2017
Good Sports
as Mrs. Tannen
1991
A Will of their Own
as Miss Maude
1998
Ruth & Erica
as Ruth
2012
Rage of Angels
as Clara
1983
Switched at Birth
as Margaret
1991