Christine Lahti
- Acting
- April 4, 1950 · Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.
Biography
Christine Ann Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film Swing Shift. Her other film roles include ...And Justice for All (1979), Housekeeping (1987), Running on Empty (1988), and Leaving Normal (1992), and The Fear Inside. For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Lahti made her Broadway debut in 1980 as a replacement in Loose Ends, and went on to star in the Broadway productions of Present Laughter (1982) and The Heidi Chronicles (1989). An eight-time Golden Globe nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee, she won a Golden Globe for the 1989 TV movie No Place Like Home, and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 1998 for her role as Kate Austin in the CBS series Chicago Hope (1995–99). She returned to Broadway in 2009 to star in God of Carnage. She also had a recurring role as Sonya Paxton in the NBC series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2009–11), as Doris McGarrett in the CBS series Hawaii Five-0 (2012–19), and Laurel Hitchin in NBC's The Blacklist (2015–17). Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Lahti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Bird in Hand · Carlotta
- Sheriff Country · Ruby Quinn
- Fire Country · Ruby Quinn
- My Name Is Andrea · Pariah
- Gloria: A Life · Gloria Steinem
- Evil · Sheryl Luria
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood · Ellen
- Becks · Ann
- The Good Fight · Andrea Stevens
- Operator · Beth Larsen
- The Steps · Sherry
- Touched with Fire · Sara
- Safelight · Peg
- Grace and Frankie · Lydia Foster
- Hateship Loveship · Eileen
- The Blacklist · Laurel Hitchin
- Petunia · Felicia Petunia
- 8 · Kris Perry
- Touchback · Thelma
- Hawaii Five-0 · Doris McGarrett
- Flying Lessons · Caroline Conway
- The Good Wife · Andrea Stevens
- Obsessed · Detective Monica Reese
- Operating Instructions · Commander Helen Keller
- Smart People · Nancy
- Yonkers Joe · Janice
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip · Martha O'Dell
- Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman · Rose
- The Tony Danza Show · Self
- Jack & Bobby · Grace McCallister
- The Book of Ruth · Maylene
- Uta Hagen's Acting Class · Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Out of the Ashes · Gisella Perl
- Open House · Samantha Morrow
- Women vs. Men · Dana
- The Pilot's Wife · Kathryn Lyons
- My First Mister · Director
- Curb Your Enthusiasm · Christine Lahti
- An American Daughter · Lyssa Dent Hughes
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Sonya Paxton
- Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story · Ellie Nesler
- The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains · Self
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn · Self
- Hope · Emma Percy
- Ally McBeal · Sydney Gale
- The View · Self
- Subway Stories · Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
- A Weekend in the Country · Ruth Oakley
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show · Self
- Pie in the Sky · Ruby
- MADtv · Self
- The Four Diamonds · Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan
- Hideaway · Lindsey
- Lieberman in Love · Shaleen, Director
- Chicago Hope · Kathryn Austin, Director
- Ellen · Ellen Screen Test #4
- Intimate Portrait · Self
- Frasier · Laura (Voice)
- The Good Fight · Grace Cragin
- The Fear Inside · Meredith Cole
- Leaving Normal · Darly
- Crazy From the Heart · Charlotte Bain
- The Doctor · Anne
- Funny About Love · Meg
- No Place Like Home · Zan Cooper
- Gross Anatomy · Dr. Rachel Woodruff
- Miss Firecracker · Clara Archer
- Running on Empty · Annie Pope
- Housekeeping · Sylvie Fisher
- Amerika · Alethea Milford
- Stacking · Kathleen Morgan
- Just Between Friends · Sandy Dunlap
- Desert Bloom · Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)
- Love Lives On · Marilyn
- Single Bars, Single Women · Elsie
- Swing Shift · Hazel Zanussi
- The Executioner's Song · Brenda Nicol
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains · Aunt Linda
- The Executioner's Song · Brenda Nicol