Lois Smith

Full filmography

• The Gettysburg Address (2025) as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
• The Uninvited (2025) as Helen
• On the End (2025) as Trudie Ferreira
• Lightning Bug (2025) as Lydia
• Elsbeth (2024) as Delores Feinn
• This Fool (2022) as Beverly
• Mack & Rita (2022) as Betty
• Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) as Doris 'Mama' Boone
• Gossip Girl (2021) as Iris Lefferts
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
• Tesla (2020) as The Grande Dame
• Uncle Frank (2020) as Aunt Butch
• The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America (2020) as Harper Pitt
• On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019) as Mimi Waldenstock
• Impulse (2018) as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones
• Lady Bird (2017) as Sister Sarah Joan
• Marjorie Prime (2017) as Marjorie
• 9JKL (2017) as Wrong Nana
• The Nice Guys (2016) as Mrs. Glenn
• The Comedian (2016) as Miriam
• Younger (2015) as Belinda Lacroix
• Sneaky Pete (2015) as Reverend Ethel Landry
• Grace and Frankie (2015) as Mrs. Hanson
• Run All Night (2015) as Margaret Conlon
• The Affair (2014) as Mrs. Gunther
• Showing Up (2014) as Self
• The Blacklist (2013) as Lucy Game
• Mom (2013) as Claire
• Ray Donovan (2013) as Dolores
• The Americans (2013) as Betty Turner
• The Man Who Came Out Only at Night (2013) as The Youngest Daughter (later)
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) as Aunt Mel
• Ruth & Erica (2012) as Ruth
• Roadie (2012) as Mom
• Please Give (2010) as Mrs. Portman
• A Dog Year (2009) as Lois Blair
• True Blood (2008) as Adele Stackhouse
• Diminished Capacity (2008) as Belle
• Turn the River (2008) as Abby
• Army Wives (2007) as Elsie
• Hollywoodland (2006) as Helen Bessolo
• Griffin & Phoenix (2006) as Dr. Imberman
• Little Fugitive (2006) as Elizabeth
• Little Fugitive (2006) as Social Worker
• Grey's Anatomy (2005) as Mrs. Dickerson
• Sweet Land (2005) as Inge (as an older woman)
• James Dean: Sense Memories (2005) as Self
• Desperate Housewives (2004) as Allison Scavo
• LAX (2004) as Rose Sinclair
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004) as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
• P.S. (2004) as Ellie Silverstein
• The Best Thief in the World (2004) as Helen
• Cold Case (2003) as Fannie
• Red Betsy (2003) as Helen Rounds
• Minority Report (2002) as Dr. Iris Hineman
• The Laramie Project (2002) as Lucy Thompson
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as Betty Bennett
• The Hire (2001) as Mother
• The Pledge (2001) as Helen Jackson
• Powder Keg (2001) as Mother
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Rebecca Tolliver
• Tumbleweeds (1999) as Ginger
• The Eternal (1998) as Mrs. Ferriter
• A Will of their Own (1998) as Miss Maude
• The Practice (1997) as Mary Beth Berluti
• Just Shoot Me! (1997) as Libby
• Eye of God (1997) Thanks
• Hudson River Blues (1997)
• Twister (1996) as Aunt Meg
• Larger Than Life (1996) as Luluna
• Dead Man Walking (1995) as Helen's Mother
• How to Make an American Quilt (1995) as Sophia
• Truman (1995) as Madge Wallace Gates
• ER (1994) as Gracie
• Touched by an Angel (1994) as Mildred Mancini
• Holy Matrimony (1994) as Orna
• Frasier (1993) as Moira
• Falling Down (1993) as D-Fens' Mother
• Skylark (1993) as Lou Wheaton
• Deadly Matrimony (1992)
• The Donner Party (1992) as voice
• Keep the Change (1992) as Lureen
• Hard Promises (1992) as Mrs. Bell
• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) as Mama Threadgoode
• Good Sports (1991) as Mrs. Tannen
• Switched at Birth (1991) as Margaret
• Coney Island (1991) as (voice)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1991) as Ma Joad
• White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991) as Alice Todd
• Law & Order (1990) as Eunice Varick
• Green Card (1990) as Brontë's Mother
• American Experience (1988) as (voice)
• Midnight Run (1988) as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend
• Hello Actors Studio (1988) as Self
• thirtysomething (1987)
• Fatal Attraction (1987) as Martha
• Black Widow (1987) as Sara
• The Equalizer (1985) as Marie Ganucci
• The Equalizer (1985) as Dorothy Hermes
• Spenser: For Hire (1985)
• Doubletake (1985) as Sarah
• The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985) as Mary Neal
• Twisted (1985) as Helen Giles
• Reckless (1984) as Mrs. Prescott
• Rage of Angels (1983) as Clara
• Reuben, Reuben (1983) as Mare Spofford
• American Playhouse (1982) as Ma Joad
• The House of Mirth (1981) as Bertha Dorset
• Four Friends (1981) as Mrs. Carnahan
• Resurrection (1980) as Kathy
• Foxes (1980) as Mrs. Axman
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980) as Cornelia
• Tales of the Unexpected (1979) as Sara
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) as Anita Cunningham
• Particular Men (1972)
• Up the Sandbox (1972) as Elinore
• Five Easy Pieces (1970) as Partita Dupea
• Dragon Country (1970) as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
• The Way We Live Now (1970) as Jane Aldridge
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967) as Evelyn
• CBS Playhouse (1966) as Evelyn
• Dr. Kildare (1961) as Libby Clayton
• The Defenders (1961) as Esther Terranova
• Route 66 (1960)
• Route 66 (1960) as Dana
• Route 66 (1960) as Lucy Brown
• The Master Builder (1960) as Hilda
• Startime (1959) as Cindy
• Naked City (1958) as Dawn Garrison
• Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Nominee / Performer
• Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Nominee
• Matinee Theater (1955)
• East of Eden (1955) as Anne
• Strange Lady in Town (1955) as Spurs O'Brien
• The United States Steel Hour (1953) as Jeannie
• Letter to Loretta (1953) as Jenny Musgrave
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
• Studio One (1948) as Lisa Molloy
• The Steel Harp as Hanna