Lois Smith Filmography

Lois Smith is an American actress whose career in theater, film, and television has spanned five decades. Smith was born as Lois Arlene Humbert in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Carrie Davis and William Oren Humbert, who was a telephone company employee. She is a graduate of the University of Washington. After two TV appearances, Smith made her film debut in East of Eden . Other film credits include Five Easy Pieces, Up the Sandbox, Four Friends, Fatal Attraction, Fried Green Tomatoes, How to Make an American Quilt, Hard Promises, Dead Man Walking, Twister, Minority Report, Tumbleweeds,... and Hollywoodland She has been active in television, appearing in early anthology series , soap operas , prime-time dramas , and sitcoms . Smith made her Broadway debut in the 1952 comedy Time Out for Ginger.
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