As of July 2026, Lois Smith is best known for Desperate Housewives and American Experience. Find every show and movie Lois Smith has starred in — and where to watch them — below.
Lois Smith

Lois Smith

Actress Born 1930 Topeka, Kansas, USA 10 TV Shows 8 Movies

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).

In 2017, Smith received critical acclaim for her leading performance in the science-fiction drama film Marjorie Prime, 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, receiving two Tony Award nominations for originating the role of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1990) and for the role of Halie in a revival of Buried Child in 1996. 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.

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Lois Smith has built a filmography of 18 credits over a career spanning from 1960 to 2021.

Lois Smith's most notable role to date came in Minority Report (2002), where she played Dr. Iris Hineman. She also appeared in Lady Bird (2017) as Sister Sarah Joan. Most recently appeared in The Nice Guys (2016) as Mrs. Glenn.

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📺 Lois Smith's TV Shows

Desperate Housewives
Allison Scavo
2004
American Experience
(voice)
1988
ER
Gracie
1994
True Blood
Adele Stackhouse
2008
Grace and Frankie
Mrs. Hanson
2015
Ray Donovan
Dolores
2013
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Doris 'Mama' Boone
2021
Route 66
1960
Sneaky Pete
Reverend Ethel Landry
2015
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Mimi Waldenstock
2019

🎬 Lois Smith's Movies

The Nice Guys
Mrs. Glenn
2016
Minority Report
Dr. Iris Hineman
2002
Twister
Aunt Meg
1996
Lady Bird
Sister Sarah Joan
2017
Run All Night
Margaret Conlon
2015
Falling Down
D-Fens' Mother
1993
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2021
Fatal Attraction
Martha
1987

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