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Lois Smith
Lois Smith
Birthplace: Topeka, Kansas
Ensemble Member Since: 1993
Productions with Steppenwolf: 7 (full list)

Lois Smith is a two-time Tony-nominee for her work in Steppenwolf's Buried Child and The Grapes of Wrath. After her film debut in East of Eden, Lois — who studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio — appeared in such seminal films as Five Easy Pieces (National Society of Film Critics Award), Fried Green Tomatoes and Dead Man Walking.
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OTHER THEATER CREDITS
Broadway: Orpheus Descending; The Young and Beautiful;
Off-Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful; The Laramie Project; The Vagina Monologues; Give Me Your Answer Do!; Impossible Marriage; Defying Gravity;
Baltimore Center Stage: Mrs. Warren's Profession; The Cherry Orchard; Escape from Happiness (also Yale Repertory);
Guthrie Theatre: The Seagull;
Long Wharf Theatre: The Front Page;
Hartford Stage: The Stick Wife; three seasons at Philadelphia's Theatre of the Living Arts including Uncle Vanya, Miss Julie, The Misanthrope.
BBC Radio: Tradition

FILM
Hollywoodland; Minority Report; Red Betsy; Sweet Land; The Pledge; Twister; Dead Man Walking; Falling Down; Fried Green Tomatoes; How to Make an American Quilt; Five Easy Pieces; East of Eden

TELEVISION
True Blood (HBO); Iron Jawed Angels (HB0); The Laramie Project (HB0); Just Shoot Me (NBC); Frasier (NBC); The Master Builder and Miss Julie (PBS); live television dramas for Studio One (CBS), Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC) and U. S. Steel Hour (ABC).

AWARDS
Tony Award nominations (Buried Child and The Grapes of Wrath); Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee; Drama Desk Award (The Trip to Bountiful); Outer Critics Circle Award (The Trip to Bountiful); Lucille Lortel Award (The Trip to Bountiful); Obie Award (The Trip to Bountiful); Kingsley-Evans Award (The Trip to Bountiful); Joseph Jefferson Award (The Trip to Bountiful); National Society of Film Critics Award (Five Easy Pieces).

LATEST NEWS

Lois Smith appears at Hartford Stage in Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate this summer and at Longwharf Theater in Darci Picoult's Lil's 90th in 2010. She was recently inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.