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