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
...And Justice for All (1979)
as Gail Packer
Obsessed (2009)
as Detective Monica Reese
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
as Ellen
Touchback (2011)
as Thelma
Running on Empty (1988)
as Annie Pope
The Henderson Monster (1980)
as Dr. Louise Casimir
The Executioner's Song (1982)
as Brenda Nicol
Funny About Love (1990)
as Meg
The Doctor (1991)
as Anne
8 (2012)
as Kris Perry
Hateship Loveship (2014)
as Eileen
Desert Bloom (1986)
as Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)
Swing Shift (1984)
as Hazel Zanussi
Gross Anatomy (1989)
as Dr. Rachel Woodruff
Smart People (2008)
as Nancy
Leaving Normal (1992)
as Darly
Crazy From the Heart (1991)
as Charlotte Bain
Hideaway (1995)
as Lindsey
The Pilot's Wife (2002)
as Kathryn Lyons
Just Between Friends (1986)
as Sandy Dunlap
Flying Lessons (2010)
as Caroline Conway
Miss Firecracker (1989)
as Clara Archer
Safelight (2015)
as Peg
Women vs. Men (2002)
as Dana
Subway Stories (1997)
as Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
Housekeeping (1987)
as Sylvie Fisher
An American Daughter (2000)
as Lyssa Dent Hughes
Operating Instructions (2009)
as Commander Helen Keller
Pie in the Sky (1996)
as Ruby
Touched with Fire (2016)
as Sara
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
as Dr. Clare Scott
Open House (2003)
as Samantha Morrow
Out of the Ashes (2003)
as Gisella Perl
A Weekend in the Country (1996)
as Ruth Oakley
Lieberman in Love (1995)
as Shaleen
The Last Tenant (1978)
as Carol
My Name Is Andrea (2022)
as Pariah
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2004)
as Rose
The Good Fight (1992)
as Grace Cragin
The Steps (2016)
as Sherry
The Fear Inside (1992)
as Meredith Cole
Uta Hagen's Acting Class (2004)
as Self
Petunia (2013)
as Felicia Petunia
No Place Like Home (1989)
as Zan Cooper
Single Bars, Single Women (1984)
as Elsie
Operator (2016)
as Beth Larsen
The Book of Ruth (2004)
as Maylene
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
as Aunt Linda
Dr. Scorpion (1978)
as Tania Reston
Love Lives On (1985)
as Marilyn
Becks (2018)
as Ann
Yonkers Joe (2008)
as Janice
The Four Diamonds (1995)
as Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan
Bird in Hand (2025)
as Carlotta
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)
as Self
Hope (1997)
as Emma Percy
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (1999)
as Ellie Nesler
Gloria: A Life (2020)
as Gloria Steinem
Stacking (1987)
as Kathleen Morgan