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Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti

Birthday: 1950-04-04 | Place of Birth: Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
My Name Is Andrea

as    Pariah

2018
Becks

as    Ann

2016
Operator

as    Beth Larsen

2016
Touched with Fire

as    Sara

2015
Safelight

as    Peg

2014
Hateship Loveship

as    Eileen

2013
Petunia

as    Felicia Petunia

2011
Touchback

as    Thelma

2009
Obsessed

as    Detective Monica Reese

2008
Smart People

as    Nancy

2004
Jack & Bobby

as    Grace McCallister

2004
2003
Out of the Ashes

as    Gisella Perl

2002
The Pilot's Wife

as    Kathryn Lyons

1999
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

as    Ellie Nesler

1997
Hope

as    Emma Percy

1996
Pie in the Sky

as    Ruby

1996
A Weekend in the Country

as    Ruth Oakley

1995
Hideaway

as    Lindsey

1992
Leaving Normal

as    Darly

1992
The Fear Inside

as    Meredith Cole

1991
The Doctor

as    Anne

1990
Funny About Love

as    Meg

1989
Gross Anatomy

as    Dr. Rachel Woodruff

1988
Running on Empty

as    Annie Pope

1987
Housekeeping

as    Sylvie Fisher

1986
Just Between Friends

as    Sandy Dunlap