Lois Smith

Lois Smith

Episodes:
Goodbye, Howard by Romulus Linney
Report on Motherhood by Beth Henley
St Francis Preaches to the Birds by David Ives.
Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday by John Guare

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.”