Bio

Lois Smith has appeared on Broadway in Buried Child (Tony Award Nomination), The Grapes of Wrath (Tony Award Nomination, also for American Playhouse/PBS), Blues for Mr. Charlie, Orpheus Descending, The Young and the Beautiful, Time Out for Ginger. Off-Broadway: The Illusion (Signature Theater); After the Revolution (Playwrights Horizons); Trip to Bountiful (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critic’s Circle Award and Drama League Honoree); Vagina Monologues; Give Me Your Answer, Do and An Impossible Marriage (Roundabout Theater); Defying Gravity and Dog Logic(American Place Theater); Beside Herself (Circle Rep); Measure for Measure and Bodies, Rest, and Motion (Lincoln Center); Glass Menagerie (City Center); April Snow (and others at EST Marathons). In regional theaters: After the Revolution and HOT L  BALTIMORE (Williamstown Theater Festival); Lil’s 90th (Long Wharf); Dividing the Estate (Hartford Stage); The Tempest; Mother Courage; The Royal Family; Buried Child; The Mesmerist (Steppenwolf); Trip to Bountiful (Joseph Jefferson Award, Goodman Theatre); The Cherry Orchard and Escape From Happiness (Baltimore Center Stage); The Seagull (Guthrie Theatre). Film: Roadie; Please Give; Hollywoodland: Diminished Capacity; A Dog Year; Turn the River; Killshot; Griffin & Phoenix; Truth, Justice and the American Way; Sweetland; Little Fugitive; The Best Thief in the World; A Foreign Affair; Iron-Jawed Angels; Minority Report; Red Betsy; The Pledge; Tumbleweeds; Nora; Dead Man Walking; Twister; Larger Than Life; How to Make an American Quilt; Holy Matrimony; Falling Down; Fried Green Tomatoes; Green Card; Fatal Attraction; Black Widow;Reckless; Reuben, Reuben; Foxes; Four Friends; Resurrection; Next Stop Greenwich Village; Up the Sandbox; Five Easy Pieces (National Society of Film Critics Supporting Actress Award); East of Eden. Television: “Untitled Emmerich and Kloser Project,” “Desperate Housewives,” “True Blood” (recurring role), “Becoming Helen Keller,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Law and Order,” “ER” (recurring role), “Army Wives,” “Lax,” “Frasier,””Truman,” “Skylark.”