# Tony Award Winner Lois Smith Joins Colin West’s ‘Outside of Cleveland’: ‘She’s an Icon’ (EXCLUSIVE)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tony-award-winner-lois-smith-joins-colin-wests-outside-of-cleveland-shes-an-icon-exclusive/
- Published: 2026-11-13T08:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T08:21:32+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/actors/lois-smith-colin-west-outside-of-cleveland-alex-wolff-1236945021/
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- Lois Smith joins “Outside of Cleveland” as Max’s grandmother.
- Alex Wolff leads a story spanning adulthood and 2009.
- Smith, 95, has worked across film, TV and theatre for decades.

## Summary

Tony Award winner Lois Smith has joined Colin West’s film “Outside of Cleveland”, playing Max’s grandmother, Marjorie. The story follows a Chicago jingle writer who returns to his childhood home and wakes up in 2009 as an 18-year-old, prompting him to reconsider his past and what he might change.

West said Marjorie was named after his own grandmother and serves as someone who tells Max difficult truths with warmth. The cast also includes Alex Wolff, Brooklynn Prince, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Wayne Callies and Michael Ian Black. Smith, 95, has worked in film, television and theatre since her screen debut opposite James Dean in 1955, and won a Tony for “The Inheritance”.

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