Birthday:03-11-1930
Birthplace:Topeka, Kansas, USA
Sex:Female
Biography
Lois Smith was born in 3 November 1930 in the city of Topeka, Kansas, USA. The name given to her at the time of birth was Lois Arlene Humbert. She was versed in the field of acting at Actors' Studio. She studied in the company of Lee Strasberg. She even taught at Juilliard.
After a small stint on television, she made to the big screen and earned a big name for herself. She acted in numerous movies out of which Five Easy Pieces, Up the Sandbox, Four Friends, Fatal Attraction, Fried Green Tomatoes, How to Make an American Quilt, Hard Promises, Dead Man Walking, Twister, Minority Report, Tumbleweeds, and Hollywoodland are prominent ones.In television too, she has great works like Law & Order: Criminal Intent, ER, Grey's Anatomy.
In her long career, she was nominated many times for her performances. In the year 1970, she won National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Five Easy Pieces. In the year 1996, she was nominated for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her work in Buried Child.
She walked the aisle with Wesley Dale Smith but divorced after a long relationship. She also has a daughter.
