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Lois Smith

English
Filmography

A Dog Year

2009
as Lois Blair

Black Widow

1987
as Sara

Dead Man Walking

1995
as Helen's Mother

Dragon Country

1970

East of Eden

1955
as Anne

Falling Down

1993
as Mrs. Foster / William's Mother

Fatal Attraction

1987
as Martha

Five Easy Pieces

1970
as Partita Dupea

Foxes

1980
as Madge's Mom

Fried Green Tomatoes

1991
as Mama Threadgoode

Green Card

1990
as Brontë's Mother

Griffin & Phoenix

2006
as Dr. Imberman

Hard Promises

1991
as Mrs. Bell

Hollywoodland

2006
as Helen Bessolo

Holy Matrimony

1994
as Orna

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Sophia

Iron Jawed Angels

2004
as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

James Dean: Sense Memories

2005
as Lois Smith

Lady Bird

2017
as Sister Sarah Joan

Little Fugitive

2006
as Elizabeth

Marjorie Prime

2017
as Marjorie

Minority Report

2002
as Dr. Iris Hineman

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976
as Anita Cunningham

P.S.

2004
as Ellie Silverstein

Particular Men

1972

Please Give

2010
as Mrs. Portman

Powder Keg

2001
as Mother

Red Betsy

2003
as Helen Rounds

Resurrection

1980
as Kathy

Reuben, Reuben

1983
as Mare Spofford

Roadie

2011
as Mom

Run All Night

2015
as Margaret Conlon

Showing Up

2014
as Herself

Skylark

1993
as Lou Wheaton

Strange Lady in Town

1955
as Spurs O'Brien

Sweet Land

2005
as Inge (as an older woman)

The Best Thief In The World

2004
as Helen

The Comedian

2016
as Miriam

The Donner Party

1992
as (voice)

The Eternal

1998
as Mrs. Ferriter

The Execution of Raymond Graham

1985
as Mary Neal

The French Dispatch

2021
as Clampette

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1980
as Cornelia

The Laramie Project

2002

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night

2013

The Master Builder

1960
as Hilda

The Nice Guys

2016
as Mrs. Glenn

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

2012
as Aunt Mel

The Way We Live Now

1970
as Jane Aldridge

Truman

1995
as Madge Wallace Gates

Tumbleweeds

1999
as Ginger

Turn the River

2008
as Abby

Twisted

1986
as Helen Giles

Twister

1996
as Meg Greene

Uncle Frank

2020
as Aunt Butch

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

1991
as Alice Todd

Guest Star

Episode ER
A House Divided 		2007
Episode ER
Breach of Trust 		2007
Episode The Equalizer
Coal Black Soul 		1987
Episode True Blood
Cold Ground 		2008
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Competence 		2002
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
Crossroads 		2024
Episode ER
Dying Is Easy… 		2007
Episode One Life to Live
Ep. #9072 		2004
Episode One Life to Live
Ep. #9106 		2004
Episode Cold Case
Factory Girls 		2004
Episode Grey's Anatomy
From a Whisper to a Scream 		2006
Episode Route 66
Go Read the River 		1962
Episode Spenser: For Hire
Haunting 		1988
Episode Younger
In the Pink 		2017
Episode Route 66
Incident on a Bridge 		1961
Episode 9JKL
Make Thanksgiving Great Again 		2017
Episode ER
Murmurs of the Heart 		2007
Episode Route 66
Only by Cunning Glimpses 		1962
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Peggy Siegal, Lois Smith 		1989
Episode The Village (2019)
Pilot 		2019
Episode The Hire
Powder Keg 		2001
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Proxy 		1984
Episode Frasier
Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead 		1997
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
Semper Fi 		2024
Episode True Blood
Sparks Fly Out 		2008
Episode Naked City
Strike a Statue 		1962
Episode The Practice
The Civil Right 		1997
Episode The Equalizer
The Confirmation Day 		1985
Episode The Defenders
The Invisible Badge 		1962
Episode Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Saint 		2004
Episode Thirtysomething
The Wedding 		1991
Episode Dr. Kildare
To Each His Prison 		1963
Episode Just Shoot Me!
When Nina Met Her Parents 		2000
Episode Route 66
Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl 		1964