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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

Mack & Rita

2022
as Betty

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