
Christine Lahti
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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
Credits

Obsessed (2009)
as Detective Monica Reese

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
as Ellen

...And Justice for All (1979)
as Gail Packer

The Doctor (1991)
as Anne

Swing Shift (1984)
as Hazel Zanussi

Running on Empty (1988)
as Annie Pope

Smart People (2008)
as Nancy

Subway Stories (1997)
as Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")

8 (2012)
as Kris Perry

Touchback (2011)
as Thelma

Desert Bloom (1986)
as Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
as Aunt Linda

Safelight (2015)
as Peg

Hateship Loveship (2014)
as Eileen

Women vs. Men (2002)
as Dana

Hideaway (1995)
as Lindsey

Gross Anatomy (1989)
as Dr. Rachel Woodruff

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2004)
as Rose

Leaving Normal (1992)
as Darly

The Executioner's Song (1982)
as Brenda Nicol

Yonkers Joe (2008)
as Janice

Dr. Scorpion (1978)
as Tania Reston

Funny About Love (1990)
as Meg

Open House (2003)
as Samantha Morrow

Touched with Fire (2016)
as Sara

The Book of Ruth (2004)
as Maylene

Pie in the Sky (1996)
as Ruby

The Steps (2016)
as Sherry

Miss Firecracker (1989)
as Clara Archer

The Pilot's Wife (2002)
as Kathryn Lyons

Flying Lessons (2010)
as Caroline Conway

Out of the Ashes (2003)
as Gisella Perl

Housekeeping (1987)
as Sylvie Fisher

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
as Dr. Clare Scott

Just Between Friends (1986)
as Sandy Dunlap

Becks (2018)
as Ann

Love Lives On (1985)
as Marilyn

Hope (1997)
as Emma Percy

Operator (2016)
as Beth Larsen

The Last Tenant (1978)
as Carol

The Good Fight (1992)
as Grace Cragin

The Henderson Monster (1980)
as Dr. Louise Casimir

No Place Like Home (1989)
as Zan Cooper

Operating Instructions (2009)
as Commander Helen Keller

Uta Hagen's Acting Class (2004)
as Self

The Fear Inside (1992)
as Meredith Cole

An American Daughter (2000)
as Lyssa Dent Hughes

A Weekend in the Country (1996)
as Ruth Oakley

Single Bars, Single Women (1984)
as Elsie

Lieberman in Love (1995)
as Shaleen

Stacking (1987)
as Kathleen Morgan

My Name Is Andrea (2022)
as Pariah

Bird in Hand (2025)
as Carlotta

Crazy From the Heart (1991)
as Charlotte Bain

Petunia (2013)
as Felicia Petunia

The Four Diamonds (1995)
as Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (1999)
as Ellie Nesler

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)
as Self

Gloria: A Life (2020)
as Gloria Steinem





