Christine Lahti
Born: 1950-04-04 in Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Sheriff Country as Ruby Quinn
- Bird in Hand as Carlotta
2022
- Fire Country as Ruby Quinn
- My Name Is Andrea as Pariah
2020
- Gloria: A Life as Gloria Steinem
2019
- Evil as Sheryl Luria
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Ellen
2018
- Becks as Ann
2017
- The Good Fight as Andrea Stevens
2016
- Touched with Fire as Sara
- The Steps as Sherry
- Operator as Beth Larsen
2015
- Grace and Frankie as Lydia Foster
- Safelight as Peg
2014
- Hateship Loveship as Eileen
2013
- The Blacklist as Laurel Hitchin
- Petunia as Felicia Petunia
2012
- 8 as Kris Perry
2011
- Touchback as Thelma
2010
- Hawaii Five-0 as Doris McGarrett
- Flying Lessons as Caroline Conway
2009
- The Good Wife as Andrea Stevens
- Obsessed as Detective Monica Reese
- Operating Instructions as Commander Helen Keller
2008
- Smart People as Nancy
- Yonkers Joe as Janice
2006
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Martha O'Dell
2004
- The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
- Jack & Bobby as Grace McCallister
- Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman as Rose
- The Book of Ruth as Maylene
- Uta Hagen's Acting Class as Self
2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Out of the Ashes as Gisella Perl
- Open House as Samantha Morrow
2002
- Women vs. Men as Dana
- The Pilot's Wife as Kathryn Lyons
2001
- My First Mister ... (Director)
2000
- Curb Your Enthusiasm as Christine Lahti
- An American Daughter as Lyssa Dent Hughes
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sonya Paxton
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest
- Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story as Ellie Nesler
- The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains as Self
1997
- The View as Self
- Ally McBeal as Sydney Gale
- Subway Stories as Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
- Hope as Emma Percy
1996
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- Pie in the Sky as Ruby
- A Weekend in the Country as Ruth Oakley
1995
- MADtv as Self
- Hideaway as Lindsey
- Lieberman in Love as Shaleen
- The Four Diamonds as Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan
1994
- Chicago Hope as Kathryn Austin
- Ellen as Ellen Screen Test #4
1993
- Frasier as Laura (voice)
- Intimate Portrait as Self
1992
- Leaving Normal as Darly
- The Fear Inside as Meredith Cole
- The Good Fight as Grace Cragin
1991
- The Doctor as Anne
- Crazy From the Heart as Charlotte Bain
1990
- Funny About Love as Meg
1989
- Miss Firecracker as Clara Archer
- Gross Anatomy as Dr. Rachel Woodruff
- No Place Like Home as Zan Cooper
1988
- Running on Empty as Annie Pope
1987
- Amerika as Alethea Milford
- Housekeeping as Sylvie Fisher
- Stacking as Kathleen Morgan
1986
- Just Between Friends as Sandy Dunlap
- Desert Bloom as Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)
1985
- Love Lives On as Marilyn
1984
- Swing Shift as Hazel Zanussi
- Single Bars, Single Women as Elsie
1982
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains as Aunt Linda
- The Executioner's Song as Brenda Nicol
- The Executioner's Song as Brenda Nicol
1981
- Wolcott as Melinda Marin
- Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Dr. Clare Scott
1980
- The Henderson Monster as Dr. Louise Casimir
1979
- ...And Justice for All as Gail Packer
1978
- The Last Tenant as Carol
- Dr. Scorpion as Tania Reston
- The Harvey Korman Show
1962
1953
- The Oscars as Self