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 Lois Smith was born on November 3, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Minority Report (2002), Lady Bird (2017) and Twister (1996). She was previously married to Wesley Dale Smith.
Bio:
Lois Smith was born on November 3, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Minority Report (2002), Lady Bird (2017) and Twister (1996). She was previously married to Wesley Dale Smith.
Tivia:
Once taught acting at Juilliard.Is an ordained minister and officiated at the wedding of actor Tim Hopper and his wife.Gave birth to her only child at age 27, a daughter Moon Elizabeth Smith on February 8, 1958. Child's father is her ex-husband, Wesley Smith.Was the original choice to play Lisa Miller on As the World Turns (1956), but was unavailable due to pregnancy. At the time, she shared the same agent with Eileen Fulton, who sent her, instead. Fulton played the character from 1960 until 2010.Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play): in 1990 for portraying Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath", a part she recreated in the television version of the same title, The Grapes of Wrath (1991); and in 1996 for Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", which was directed by her "Grapes of Wrath" co-star Gary Sinise.Longtime companion of David Margulies.Studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio.Is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.Attended and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.Currently lives on the Upper West Side of New York City. (April 2012)Returned to work 9 months after giving birth to her daughter Moon to begin performing in the Broadway play "Edwin Booth".She was nominated for a 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Grapes of Wrath" at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.She is a lifelong liberal Democrat.Became the oldest competitive Tony acting winner at the 2021 awards winning featured actress in a play for The Inheritance.She was awarded the 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Trip to Bountiful" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.Parents are William Oren and Carrie Davis Humbert.Has five older siblings. |
| Name: |
Lois Smith |
Type: |
Actress (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress |
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Actress |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 05:06:55 |
| Height: |
5' 2' (1.57 m) |
| Biography: |
Lois Smith was born on November 3, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Minority Report (2002), Lady Bird (2017) and Twister (1996). She was previously married to Wesley Dale Smith.Bio:Lois Smith was born on November 3, 1930 in T |
| Trivia: |
Once taught acting at Juilliard.Is an ordained minister and officiated at the wedding of actor Tim Hopper and his wife.Gave birth to her only child at age 27, a daughter Moon Elizabeth Smith on February 8, 1958. Child's father is her ex-husband, Wesley Smith.Was the original choice to play Lisa Miller on As the World Turns (1956), but was unavailable due to pregnancy. At the time, she shared the same agent with Eileen Fulton, who sent her, instead. Fulton played the character from 1960 until 2010.Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play): in 1990 for portraying Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath", a part she recreated in the television version of the same title, The Grapes of Wrath (1991); and in 1996 for Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", which was directed by her "Grapes of Wrath" co-star Gary Sinise.Longtime companion of David Margulies.Studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio.Is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.Attended and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.Currently lives on the Upper West Side of New York City. (April 2012)Returned to work 9 months after giving birth to her daughter Moon to begin performing in the Broadway play "Edwin Booth".She was nominated for a 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Grapes of Wrath" at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.She is a lifelong liberal Democrat.Became the oldest competitive Tony acting winner at the 2021 awards winning featured actress in a play for The Inheritance.She was awarded the 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Trip to Bountiful" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.Parents are William Oren and Carrie Davis Humbert.Has five older siblings. |
| Quotes: |
I seldom saw Bob Rafelson after we finished shooting Five Easy Pieces (1970), but then he asked me to be in Black Widow (1987) and when he called in 1986 he said, "Stick with me and you'll make a movie every 16 years." |
| Job title: |
Actress |
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(2005, November - 2006, January) Appeared as "Carrie Watts" in Horton Foote's "A Trip to Bountiful", at the off-Broadway Signature Theatre Company, New York, NY.
(1988) She has acted in the stage production of "The Grapes of |
| Spouse: |
Wesley Dale Smith (November 5, 1948 - September 22, 1970) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Parents: |
William Oren Humbert
Carrie Davis |
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