Christine Lahti
Known for: Acting
Born: April 4, 1950
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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Filmography
60 movies · 31 TV shows, newest first
7.4
Sheriff Country
2025
1.0
Bird in Hand
2025
8.0
Fire Country
2022
3.8
My Name Is Andrea
2022
NR
Gloria: A Life
2020
7.8
Evil
2019
7.0
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
5.3
Becks
2018
7.6
The Good Fight
2017
5.8
Operator
2016
6.4
The Steps
2016
5.9
Touched with Fire
2016
5.8
Safelight
2015
7.7
Grace and Frankie
2015
5.8
Hateship Loveship
2014
7.6
The Blacklist
2013
4.7
Petunia
2013
5.3
8
2012
6.6
Touchback
2011
7.7
Hawaii Five-0
2010
5.6
Flying Lessons
2010
7.6
The Good Wife
2009
5.7
Obsessed
2009
NR
Operating Instructions
2009
5.8
Smart People
2008
5.1
Yonkers Joe
2008
7.5
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
5.5
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
20046.4
The Tony Danza Show
2004
7.3
Jack & Bobby
2004
6.8
The Book of Ruth
2004
10.0
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
6.1
Out of the Ashes
2003
6.0
Open House
2003
5.3
Women vs. Men
2002
5.3
The Pilot's Wife
2002
6.6
My First Mister
2001
8.1
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
4.7
An American Daughter
2000
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
5.6
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
1999
7.5
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
5.3
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
5.2
Hope
1997
6.5
Ally McBeal
1997
4.3
The View
1997
5.6
Subway Stories
1997
5.7
A Weekend in the Country
1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
6.6
Pie in the Sky
1996
7.1
MADtv
1995
6.0
The Four Diamonds
1995
5.2
Hideaway
1995
6.7
Lieberman in Love
1995
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
6.1
Ellen
1994
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
7.7
Frasier
1993
5.0
The Good Fight
1992
4.5
The Fear Inside
1992
6.0
Leaving Normal
1992
4.0
Crazy From the Heart
1991
6.5
The Doctor
1991
4.9
Funny About Love
1990
6.7
No Place Like Home
1989
5.7
Gross Anatomy
1989
5.8
Miss Firecracker
1989
7.5
Running on Empty
1988
6.6
Housekeeping
1987
5.7
Amerika
1987
10.0
Stacking
1987
5.2
Just Between Friends
1986
5.8
Desert Bloom
1986
8.0
Love Lives On
1985
6.0
Single Bars, Single Women
1984
5.6
Swing Shift
1984
NR
The Executioner's Song
1982
6.3
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
5.8
The Executioner's Song
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
7.0
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
6.0
Wolcott
1981
6.0
The Henderson Monster
1980
7.1
...And Justice for All
1979
NR
The Last Tenant
1978NR
The Harvey Korman Show
1978
7.0
Dr. Scorpion
1978
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
7.0
The Oscars
1953
6.2
Beverly Hills Cop
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