Lois Smith

Lois Arlene Smith (née Humbert; born November 3, 1930) is an American character actress, whose career spans seven decades.[1] 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 (1995), Twister (1996), Minority Report (2002), The Nice Guys (2016) and Lady Bird (2017).

Lois Smith
Smith in 2017
Born
Lois Arlene Humbert

(1930-11-03) November 3, 1930
OccupationActress
Years active1952–present
Spouse(s)
Wesley Smith
(m. 1948; div. 1970)
Children1

In 2017, Smith received critical acclaim for her leading performance in the science-fiction drama film Marjorie Prime,[2][3][4] for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and Saturn Award, and well as won Satellite Award. Smith also has had many roles on television, both daytime and prime time. She was regular cast member in the HBO horror drama True Blood, and well as received Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series nomination for The Americans.

Smith also is known for her extensive work in the theatre. She is a three-time Tony Award nominee for her performances in The Grapes of Wrath (1990), Buried Child (1996), and The Inheritance (2020). She also starred in an acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful in 2005 for which she received an Obie Award for Best Actress, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Drama Desk Award. Smith is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.

Smith was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007 for her outstanding contributions to the theatre.[5] In 2013, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Obie Award for excellence in Off-Broadway performances. In her career, she has taught, directed, and written for the stage.[6]

Personal life

Smith was born Lois Arlene Humbert in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of six children of Carrie (née Gottshalk; 1897–1982)[7] and William Humbert (1895–1950), who worked for a telephone company. Her father died in 1950 at age 54.[8][9] Her family included her two sisters, Alice and Marvelle, and three brothers, William, Dilman, and Phillip, all of whom are now deceased. Her father moved the family to Seattle when Lois was 11 years old, and he was involved heavily in the church. William put on plays at church in which young Lois performed. She studied theatre at the University of Washington but did not graduate. At age 18, she married Wesley Dale Smith, whom she met in college; they divorced in 1970. The couple had one daughter, Moon Elizabeth Smith.[10][11]

Around 1951, Smith and her husband decided to leave Seattle for New York City to begin their professional careers. After she worked with Elia Kazan on East of Eden, he encouraged her to study with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, which she did. She was also mentored in her early years in New York City by John Van Druten.

Career

Theatre

Smith made her Broadway debut in 1952 at age 22 in the play Time Out for Ginger as Joan, with Nancy Malone as Ginger and Melvyn Douglas as their father. She followed this in 1955 with The Wisteria Trees, a play that starred Helen Hayes. In 1956, she performed with Helen Hayes in The Glass Menagerie. Also in 1955, she was given the lead role of Josephine Perry in Sally Benson's play The Young and Beautiful, which ran for 65 performances at the Longacre Theatre.[12]

In 1957, Smith originated the role of Carol Cutrere in Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, which also starred Maureen Stapleton. In 1958, she was directed by José Ferrer in Edwin Booth.

In 1973, she returned to Broadway to appear in a revival of The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. In 1975, she performed the role of Gaby in the play Harry Outside by Corinne Jacker. She also played the lead female role in the play Touching Bottoms by Steve Tesich in 1978. In 1979, she played the role of Denise in the play Hillbilly Women by Elizabeth Stearns at the Long Wharf Theatre. In 1987, she played Jessie Bliss in The Stick Wife by Darrah Cloud with the Hartford Stage Company.

In 1988, Smith was cast with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago as Ma Joad in the play The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of the 1939 Steinbeck novel. Smith originated the stage role, and after going on tour, the production reached Broadway in 1990 and Smith earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.[13]

Also in 1988, Smith originated the role of Mrs. Campbell in The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees by Horton Foote. In 1989, she performed in an Off-Broadway production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare in the role of Mistress Overdone.

In 1995, Smith starred as Halie in a revival of Buried Child by Sam Shepard at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company which transferred to Broadway in 1996, and for which she received her second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. In 1997, Smith played the role of Betty in Defying Gravity by Jane Anderson Off-Broadway. In 1998, she played the role of Kandall Kingsley in Impossible Marriage by Beth Henley. In 2001, she starred in the title role of Mother Courage and Her Children, and in 2002 she starred in a revival of The Royal Family as Fanny Cavendish, both plays with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.[12]

In 2005, Smith starred in an Off-Broadway production of The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts with the Signature Theatre Company for which she received an Obie Award for Best Actress, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Drama Desk Award.

In 2010, she performed the role of Vera in After the Revolution by Amy Herzog for which she was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award. In 2012 she originated the role of Mable Murphy in the play Heartless by Sam Shepard, and in 2013, she starred in a revival of My Old Friends by Horton Foote. In 2014, she starred in a new play by Jordan Harrison titled Marjorie Prime, originating the title role of Marjorie at the Mark Taper Forum.[14] She is featured in the new play by Annie Baker, John, which opened Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre Company on July 22, 2015 and ran to September 6.[15]

From 1965 to 1967, Smith starred in several plays as a company member with the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia with Andre Gregory. She has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 1993. She is a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, founded by Curt Dempster in 1968. In 2018 she took on the leading role[16] in Peace for Mary Frances by Brooklyn College student Lily Thorne.[17] The drama, directed by Lila Neugebauer,[18] was given its world premiere by off-Broadway's The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York. Although Smith performance was praised, the play received negative reviews from a variety of outlets from The New York Times [19] to The Hollywood Reporter[20] and The Wrap.[21]

Film

Smith in 1955, Warner Bros. studio publicity photo

Smith made her film debut in 1955 directed by Elia Kazan in the drama film East of Eden with James Dean, Julie Harris, and Jo Van Fleet. Her next film was the western Strange Lady in Town. In November 1955, she was featured on the cover of Life Magazine.[22] Smith then focused on television work, not making a film until The Way We Live Now in 1970. She then earned critical acclaim for her role as Partita Dupea, the sister of Jack Nicholson's character in Five Easy Pieces (1970), and Smith won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.[23]

Supporting roles in films in the 1970s and 1980s included Up the Sandbox, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Resurrection, Foxes, Four Friends, Reuben, Reuben, Reckless, Black Widow, Fatal Attraction, and Midnight Run.

Supporting roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Green Card, Fried Green Tomatoes, How to Make an American Quilt, Falling Down, Holy Matrimony, Dead Man Walking, Twister, Tumbleweeds, The Pledge, Minority Report, P.S., Sweet Land, Hollywoodland, and Killshot. In the 2010s, Smith played supporting roles in Please Give, The Nice Guys, The Comedian, and the documentary The Gettysburg Address.

In 2017, Smith appeared in the science-fiction drama film Marjorie Prime[22] for which she won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd ceremony. Later that year, she had supporting role in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama Lady Bird, receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination.[24] She later was cast in The French Dispatch, a drama film, written and directed by Wes Anderson.[25]

Television

Smith made her television debut in 1953 on Kraft Television Theatre. In 1954, she appeared as the daughter of Mary Astor in a Studio One production. She performed on many series through the 1950s and 1960s, guest-starring on Naked City, The Doctors, Dr. Kildare, and The Defenders. In 1956, she appeared with John Cassavetes in Bring Me a Dream, a teleplay by John Vlahos, and she appeared as Felicia in Noon on Doomsday, written by Rod Serling. In 1959, she was given the lead role of Cindy in the teleplay Cindy's Fella, a modernized version of Cinderella, with James Stewart and directed by Gower Champion.[26]

In 1960, she performed in The Master Builder as Hilda and as Julie in Miss Julie in public television specials. Also in 1960, she appeared as Lena in a teleplay based on Victory by Joseph Conrad, and in a teleplay version of Men In White by Sidney Kingsley as Barbara Dennin. She did four episodes of Route 66, and in 1967 performed in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night on CBS Playhouse with Shirley Booth. In 1970, she performed with Kim Stanley in a television special of Tennessee Williams' plays titled Dragon Country.

In 1978, Smith played the lead role of Stacey MacAindra in the teleplay Stacey based on The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence. In 1980, she appeared in the television film The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as the daughter of Geraldine Fitzgerald, and in 1981 played Bertha in a television film version of The House of Mirth.

She played supporting roles in the Emmy-nominated TV films Rage of Angels (1983), The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985), Switched at Birth (1991) and Skylark (1993). She guest-starred on two episodes of The Equalizer and one episode of Thirtysomething in 1991.

In 1991, she portrayed Alice, the mother of Thelma Todd, in White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd and in 1995 portrayed Margaret, the mother of Bess Truman in the Emmy-winning television film Truman. She guest-starred on episodes of The Practice, Frasier, Just Shoot Me!, Touched by an Angel, Cold Case and Law & Order.

In 2002, Smith appeared in The Laramie Project and in 2004 she portrayed Anna Howard Shaw in the Emmy-winning film Iron Jawed Angels. In 2007, she guest-starred on four episodes of ER and in 2009 in A Dog Year with Jeff Bridges. She played Adele Stackhouse, the grandmother of Anna Paquin's character on True Blood and played the mother-in-law of Felicity Huffman's character on Desperate Housewives.

In 2015, Smith was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer for her role in an episode of The Americans.[27] In 2017 she guest starred in ‘The Gun’, episode five of the third season of the Netflix series Grace and Frankie as Mrs Hanson, the vituperative mother of Martin Sheen's character Robert. Also in 2017, she guest starred in "In the Pink", episode 4 of season 4 of Younger, as Belinda Lacroix, a Barbara Cartland-type romance novelist. In 2019, she guest starred in Mom as Claire, Bonnie and Tammy's former caretaker at the old foster home.

Soap opera fans have seen Smith on daytime in many recurring and guest-starring roles over the years, first playing the psychotic wife Zoe Cannell on Somerset (1972–1974), Eleanor Conrad on The Doctors (1975–1977), Ella Fitz (the co-conspirator of evil Alma Rudder) on Another World (1982–1983), Mrs. Oakes on The Edge of Night (1983), Elwinna Pendergast on All My Children and as Dorian's imperious aunt Betsy Cramer on One Life to Live (2003–2004).

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1955 East of Eden Anne
Strange Lady in Town Spurs O'Brien
1970 The Way We Live Now Jane Aldridge
Five Easy Pieces Partita Dupea
1972 Up the Sandbox Elinore
1976 Next Stop, Greenwich Village Anita Cunningham
1980 Foxes Mrs. Axman
Resurrection Kathy
1981 Four Friends Mrs. Carnahan
1983 Reuben, Reuben Mare Spofford
1984 Reckless Mrs. Prescott
1986 Twisted Helen Giles
1987 Black Widow Sara
Fatal Attraction Martha
1988 Midnight Run Helen Nelson
1990 Green Card Brontë's Parent
1991 Hard Promises Mrs. Bell
Fried Green Tomatoes Mama Threadgoode
1993 Falling Down D-Fens' Mother
1994 Holy Matrimony Orna
1995 How to Make an American Quilt Sophia
Dead Man Walking Helen's Mother
1996 Twister Meg Greene
Larger Than Life Luluna
1997 Hudson River Blues Julia
1998 Trance Mrs. Ferriter
1999 Tumbleweeds Ginger
2001 The Pledge Helen Jackson
Powder Keg Mother Segment: The Hire
2002 Minority Report Dr. Iris Hineman
The Laramie Project Lucy Thompson
2003 A Foreign Affair Ma Adams
Red Betsy Helen Rounds
2004 The Best Thief in the World Helen
Iron Jawed Angels Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
P.S. Ellie Silverstein
2005 Sweet Land Old Inge
2006 Little Fugitive Social Worker
Hollywoodland Helen Bessolo
Griffin & Phoenix Dr. Imberman
2007 Turn the River Abby
2008 Diminished Capacity Belle Tyke
Killshot Lenore
2009 A Dog Year Lois Blair
2010 Please Give Mrs. Portman
2011 Roadie Mom
2012 The Odd Life of Timothy Green Aunt Mel
2013 Two Altars and a Cave Helena Short film
2015 Run All Night Margaret Conlon
2016 The Nice Guys Mrs. Glenn
The Comedian Miriam
2017 Marjorie Prime Marjorie
Lady Bird Sister Sarah Joan
2020 Uncle Frank Aunt Butch
Tesla The Grand Dame
The French Dispatch Upshur Clampette Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1951Love of LifeMrs. Bendarik
1953Pond's TheatrePerformerEpisode: The Apple Tree
1954Studio One (American TV series)Barbara SparlingEpisode: Jack Sperling, Forty-six
1955Star TonightPerformer2 episodes
1955JusticePerformerEpisode: The Girl Without a Name
1955Robert Montgomery PresentsPerformerEpisode: The Second Day of Christmas
1956The United States Steel HourFelicia Chinik - Jeannie2 episodes
1957-58Matinee TheaterPerformer2 episodes
1958The Ed Sullivan ShowActor - Scene from Edwin BoothEpisode: #12.15
1959StartimeCindyEpisode: Cindy's Fella
1960Strindberg on LoveMiss JulieTelevision Movie
1960The Master BuilderHildaTelevision Movie
1960The Play of the WeekHilde Wangel - Miss Julie2 episodes
1960The Art Carney SpecialLenaEpisode: Victory
1960DuPont Show of the MonthBarbara DenninEpisode: Men in White
1961The Loretta Young ShowJenny MusgraveEpisode: When Queens Ride By
1961'Way OutPerformerEpisode: The Sisters
1961Naked CityDawn GarrisonEpisode: Strike a Statue
1962The DefendersEsther TerranovaEpisode: The Invisible Badge
1963Dr. KildareLibby ClaytonEpisode: To Each His Own Prison
1961-64Route 66Various4 episodes
1964The Eleventh HourJane WellsEpisode: A Pattern of Sundays
1967CBS PlayhouseEvelynEpisode: Do Not Go in Gentle to That Goodnight
1970SomeersetZoe Cannell1972-1974
1970Dragon CountryPerformerTelevision Movie
1972Particular MenAnne StarrTelevision Movie
1975-77The DoctorsEleanor Conrad253 episodes
1978StaceyStaceyTelevision Movie
1980The Jilting of Granny WeatherallCorneliaTelevision Movie
1981The House of MirthBertha DorsetTelevision Movie
1982ABC Afterschool SpecialMargaretEpisode: The Unforgivable Secret
1982-1983Another WorldElla Fitz2 episodes
1983Rage of AngelsClaraTelevision Special
1984The Edge of NightMrs. Oakes2 episodes
1984Tales of the UnexpectedSaraEpisode: Proxy
1985Becoming Helen KellerAnne Sullivan (older)Documentary, American Masters
1985The Execution of Raymond GrahamMary NealTelevision Movie
1985DoubletakeSarahParts 1 & 2
1986Adam's AppleDora AdamsTelevision Movie
1985, 87The EqualizerDorothy Hermes - Marie Ganucci2 episodes
1988Spenser: For HireElsieEpisode: Haunting
1991Good SportsMrs. TanenEpisode: Pros and Ex-Cons
1991American PlayhouseMa JoadEpisode: The Grapes of Wrath
1991ThirtysomethingMrs. WarrenEpisode: The Wedding
1991Switched at BirthMargaretMiniseries
1991White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma ToddAlice ToddTelevision Movie
1992Keep the ChangeLureenTelevision Movie
1992Deadly MatrimonyPerformerTelevision Movie
1993SkylarkLou WheatonTelevision Movie
1993Missing PersonsMrs. HalloranEpisode: Sometimes You Can't Help Getting Involved
1995TrumanMadge Wallace GatesTelevision Movie
1997FrasierMoiraEpisode: Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead
1997The PracticeMary Beth BerlutiEpisode: The Civil Right
1998A Will of Their OwnMiss MaudeEpisode: #1.01
2000Just Shoot Me!LibbyEpisode: When Nina Met Her Parents
2001Going to CaliforniaBeatrice GrafEpisode: Apocalypse Cow
2002The Laramie ProjectLucy ThompsonTelevision Movie
2002Law & Order: Special Victims UnitRebecca TolliverEpisode: Competence
2002Touched by an AngelMildred ManciniEpisode: A Rock and a Hard Place
2004Iron Jawed AngelsAnna ShawTelevision Movie
2004Law & Order: Criminal IntentBetty BennettEpisode: The Saint
2004LAXRose SinclairEpisode: Credible Threat
2004 Cold CaseFannyEpisode: Factory Girls
2003-2004One Life to LiveAunt Betsy15 episodes
2005Law & OrderMrs. VarickEpisode: Sport of Kings
2006Grey's AnatomyMrs. DickersonEpisode: From a Whisper to a Scream
2007ERGracie4 episodes
2009Army WivesElsieEpisode: As Time Goes By
2010Desperate HousewivesAllison Scavo2 episodes
2012Ruth & EricaRuth7 episodes
2012Dark HorseMrs. RuthTelevision Movie
2008-2014True BloodAdele Stackhouse12 episodes
2015The AmericansBetty TurnerEpisode: Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
2017The AffairMrs. GuntherEpisode: #3.07
2017The BlacklistLucy GameEpisode: The Architect
2017Grace and FrankieMrs. Hanson2 episodes
2017YoungerBelinda LacroixEpisode: In the Pink
20179JKLWrong NanaEpisode: Make Thanksgiving Great Again
2018Sneaky PeteReverend Ethel Landry2 episodes
2018ImpulseDeidre 'Dippy' JonesEpisode: The Eagle and the Bee
2019The VillageVelmaPilot
2019MomClaireEpisode: Triple Dip and an Overhand Grip
2019The SonJeanne Anne McCullough5 episodes
2019On Becoming a God in Central FloridaMimi Waldenstock2 episodes
2019-2020Ray DonovanDolores4 episodes

Theatre

Broadway

Year Title Role Venue Ref.
1952Time Out for GingerJoanLyceum Theatre[28]
1955The Wisteria TreesAntoinetteNew York City Center
1955The Young and BeautifulJosephine PerryLongacre Theatre
1957Orpheus DescendingCarol CutrereMartin Beck Theatre
1958Edwin BoothMary Devlin46th Street Theatre
1963Bicyle Ride to NevadaLucha MorenoCort Theatre
1973The Iceman ComethCoraCircle in the Square
1978StagesVariousBelasco Theatre
1990The Grapes of WrathMa JoadCort Theatre
1996Buried ChildHalieBrooks Atkinson Theatre
2019-2020The Inheritance - Part IIMargaretEthel Barrymore Theatre

Off Broadway

Year Title Role Venue
1956The Glass MenagerieLaura WingfieldNew York City Center
1970Sunday DinnerMaryAmerican Place Theatre, Off-Broadway
1972Present TenseVariousSheridan Square Playhouse, Off-Broadway
1978Touching BottomPerformerAmerican Place Theatre, Off-Broadway
1982The Front PageMollie MalloyLong Wharf Theatre Mainstage, CT
1985The Vienna NotesRiversSecond Stage Theater, Off-Broadway
1986Brighton Beach MemoirsBlanche MortonACT, A Contemporary Theater, Seattle
1987Bodies, Rest and MotionMrs. DotsonLincoln Center Theatre, Off-Broadway
1987The Stick WifeJessie BlissHartford Stage, CT
1988The Grapes of WrathPerformerSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
1989Measure for MeasureMistress OverdoneLincoln Center Theatre, Off-Broadway
1989Beside HerselfMaryCircle Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway
1992Dog LogicAnitaThe American Place Theatre, NY
1993Escape from HappinessNoraYale Repertory Theatre, CT
1994The MesmeristPerformerSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
1995Buried ChildHalieSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
1997Defying GravityBettyThe American Place Theatre, Off-Broadway
1998Impossible MarriageKendall KingsleyLaura Pels Theatre, Off-Broadway
1999-2000Give Me Your Answer, Do!Maggie DonovanRoundabout Theatre Company, Off-Broadway
2001Mother Courage and Her ChildrenPerformerSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
2005Absolute HellJulia ShillitoeRoundabout Theatre Company Stage Reading
2005-2006The Trip to BountifulMrs. Carrie WattsSignature Theatre Company, Off-Broadway
2007100 Saints You Should KnowColleenPlaywrights Horizons, Off-Broadway
2008The Trip to BountifulCarrie WattsGoodman Theatre, Chicago
2009The TempestGonzaloSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
2009Dividing the StateStella GordonHartford Stage, CT
2010Lil's 90thLilLong Wharf Theatre, CT
2010After the RevolutionVera JosephWilliamstown Theatre Festival, MA
2010Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway
2011The IllusionAlcandreSignature Theatre Company, Off-Broadway
2012HeartlessMable
2013The Old FriendsMamie Borden
2014Marjorie PrimeMarjorieMark Taper Forum, CA
2015The HerdPatriciaSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
2015JohnPerformerSignature Theatre Company, NY
2015-2016Marjorie PrimeMarjoriePlaywrights Horizons, Off-Broadway
2018Peace for Mary FrancesMary FrancesThe Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, Off-Broadway
2018I Was Most Alive With YouCarlaPlaywrights Horizons, Off-Broadway

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1970New York Film Critics CircleBest Supporting ActressFive Easy PiecesNominated[29]
1971Laurel AwardsBest Female Supporting PerformanceNominated
1990Tony AwardsBest Featured Actress in a PlayThe Grapes of WrathNominated[30]
1996Buried ChildNominated[30]
1996Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureHow to Make an American QuiltNominated[29]
2006Drama Desk AwardsOutstanding Actress in a PlayThe Trip to BountifulWon[31]
2010Gotham AwardsBest Ensemble CastPlease GiveNominated[29]
2011Independent Spirit AwardsRobert Altman AwardWon
2013Critics' Choice Television AwardsBest Guest Performer in a Drama SeriesThe AmericansNominated
2017Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureLady BirdNominated[29]
2017Las Vegas Film Critics SocietyLifetime Achievement AwardN/AWon[29]
2017Windsor International Film FestivalN/AWon
2017Gotham AwardsBest ActressMarjorie PrimeNominated
2018Independent Spirit AwardsBest Supporting FemaleNominated
2018Satellite AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Motion PictureWon
2020Drama Desk AwardsOutstanding Featured Actress in a PlayThe InheritanceWon[31]
2020Tony AwardsBest Featured Actress in a PlayPending[32]

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