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Acting

Lois Smith

Career: Active from 1955 to 2025, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 15
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Lady Bird
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 99 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Lois Smith Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.7, average 4.8
Violence
3.1, average 4.1
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.7
Scare
1.7, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Character Study 4
Coming-of-Age 3
Social Commentary 3
Melancholy 3
Independent Film 2
Bittersweet Romance 2
Existential Drama 2
Second Chance 2
Nostalgic 2
Small Town 2
Thought-Provoking 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

131

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

as Hanna

2020s

13 titles · average score 64

The Uninvited

54

as Helen

On the End

as Trudie Ferreira

The Gettysburg Address

as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)

Elsbeth

68

TV show · as Delores Feinn

This Fool

85

TV show · as Beverly

Mack & Rita

39

as Betty

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

73

as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

Law & Order: Organized Crime

70

TV show · as Doris 'Mama' Boone

Gossip Girl

59

TV show · as Iris Lefferts

Tesla

55

as The Grande Dame

Uncle Frank

71

as Aunt Butch

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

as Harper Pitt

2010s

21 titles · average score 71

Lady Bird

85

as Sister Sarah Joan

The Nice Guys

77

as Mrs. Glenn

Grace and Frankie

77

TV show · as Mrs. Hanson

Younger

80

TV show · as Belinda Lacroix

Sneaky Pete

83

TV show · as Reverend Ethel Landry

The Affair

78

TV show · as Mrs. Gunther

The Blacklist

80

TV show · as Lucy Game

The Americans

89

TV show · as Betty Turner

Mom

72

TV show · as Claire

Ray Donovan

76

TV show · as Dolores

Roadie

59

as Mom

Please Give

74

as Mrs. Portman

2000s

25 titles · average score 63

A Dog Year

52

as Lois Blair

Killshot

43

as Lenore

Hollywoodland

62

as Helen Bessolo

Griffin & Phoenix

72

as Dr. Imberman

Sweet Land

77

as Inge (as an older woman)

Grey's Anatomy

75

TV show · as Mrs. Dickerson

P.S.

52

as Ellie Silverstein

Desperate Housewives

76

TV show · as Allison Scavo

Iron Jawed Angels

66

as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

Red Betsy

as Helen Rounds

Minority Report

80

as Dr. Iris Hineman

Powder Keg

72

as Mother

1990s

30 titles · average score 66

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

73

TV show · as Rebecca Tolliver

Tumbleweeds

72

as Ginger

The Eternal

43

as Mrs. Ferriter

The Practice

76

TV show · as Mary Beth Berluti

Twister

66

as Aunt Meg

Dead Man Walking

77

as Helen's Mother

Holy Matrimony

22

as Orna

79

TV show · as Gracie

Falling Down

71

as D-Fens' Mother

Frasier

85

TV show · as Moira

Switched at Birth

69

TV show · as Margaret

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Eunice Varick

1980s

19 titles · average score 65

American Experience

75

TV show · as (voice)

Midnight Run

82

as Mrs. Nelson, Mardukas's Friend

Fatal Attraction

70

as Martha

thirtysomething

64

TV show

Twisted

48

as Helen Giles

The Equalizer

62

TV show · as Dorothy Hermes / Marie Ganucci

Spenser: For Hire

50

TV show

Reckless

49

as Mrs. Prescott

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Ma Joad

The House of Mirth

as Bertha Dorset

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

as Cornelia

Foxes

56

as Mrs. Axman

1970s

7 titles · average score 72

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Sara

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

76

as Anita Cunningham

Up the Sandbox

61

as Elinore

Particular Men

as Anne Starr

Five Easy Pieces

81

as Partita Dupea

The Way We Live Now

as Jane Aldridge

Dragon Country

as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")

1960s

6 titles · average score 60

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

as Evelyn

TV show · as Evelyn

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Libby Clayton

The Defenders

71

TV show · as Esther Terranova

Route 66

48

TV show · as Lucy Brown / Dana

The Master Builder

as Hilda

1950s

8 titles · average score 68

Startime

67

TV show · as Cindy

Naked City

69

TV show · as Dawn Garrison

Strange Lady in Town

55

as Spurs O'Brien

East of Eden

78

as Anne

Matinee Theater

TV show

The United States Steel Hour

71

TV show · as Jeannie

Letter to Loretta

70

TV show · as Jenny Musgrave

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV show

1940s

1 title · average score 65

Studio One

65

TV show · as Lisa Molloy