Lois Smith

Lois Smith

Actor (b. 1930)
17
Movies
74.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Lois Smith’s films higher than 74% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Falling Down (YouTube) · Dead Man Walking (Roku Channel, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Green Card (Hoopla) · Five Easy Pieces (Tubi, Fawesome) · The Pledge (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Griffin & Phoenix (Roku Channel, Tubi) and 3 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Michael Douglas (2)Adrian Lyne (2)Sean Penn (2)Robert Prosky (2)Jack Nicholson (2)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Lois Smith (74.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 17 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Lois's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Lois Arlene Smith (née Humbert; born November 3, 1930) is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1955 drama film East of Eden, and later played supporting roles in a number of movies, including Five Easy Pieces (1970), Resurrection (1980), Fatal Attraction (1987), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Dead Man Walking, Twister (1996), Minority Report (2002), The Nice Guys (2016) and Lady Bird (2017). In 2017, Smith received critical acclaim for her leading performance in the science-fiction drama film Marjorie Prime, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and Saturn Award, and well as won Satellite Award. Smith also has had many roles on television, both daytime and prime time. She was regular cast member in the HBO horror drama True Blood, and well as received Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series nomination for The Americans. Smith also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving two Tony Award nominations for originating the role of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1990) and for the role of Halie in a revival of Buried Child in 1996. She also starred in an acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful in 2005 for which she received an Obie Award for Best Actress, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Drama Desk Award. Smith is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lois Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1930-11-03 in Topeka, Kansas, USA.

On ThumbScore, Lois Smith appears in 17 films with an average audience score of 74.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Lois Smith movie, ranked by audience score

Foxes
Foxes
1980
👍 92%
Falling Down
Falling Down
1993
👍 85%
Twister
Twister
1996
👍 84%
Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking
1995
👍 82%
Lady Bird
Lady Bird
2017
👍 78%
East of Eden
East of Eden
1955
👍 77%
Green Card
Green Card
1990
👍 75%
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces
1970
👍 74%
The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys
2016
👍 73%
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction
1987
👍 72%
How to Make an American Quilt
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
👍 72%
The Pledge
The Pledge
2001
👍 71%
Griffin & Phoenix
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
👍 71%
Black Widow
Black Widow
1987
👍 69%
Uncle Frank
Uncle Frank
2020
👍 67%
Hollywoodland
Hollywoodland
2006
👍 65%
Killshot
Killshot
2008
👍 62%