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Christine Lahti
Lahti at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, April 2008
Born	4 April 1950 (1950-04-04) (age 58) Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Occupation	Actress, film director
Spouse(s)	Thomas Schlamme (1983-present)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Live Action Short Film 1995 Lieberman in Love Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series 1998 Chicago Hope Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie 1990 No Place Like Home Best Actress - Drama Series 1997 Chicago Hope Other Awards NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress 1984 Swing Shift

Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and Academy Award-winning film director.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, the daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (née Tabar), a painter, homemaker and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon.^[1] Lahti has Finnish ancestry. Her surname means "a gulf", "a bay" or "a cove" in Finnish; Lahti is also a city in Finland, near Helsinki. Lahti studied fine arts at Florida State University and received her bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Michigan, where she joined Delta Gamma sorority. She then toured Europe as part of a pantomime acting troupe.

After university, Lahti headed to New York City, where she worked as a waitress and did commercials. Her breakthrough movie was …And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. After starring in a few blockbuster hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, Lahti has chosen to be primarily in movies she wants to act in, rather than take blockbuster roles, and she is adamant about spending time with her three children. She has also chosen to focus on television, beginning with her role in the 1979 made-for-TV adaptation of The Executioner's Song. She appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's seriocomic play, The Heidi Chronicles.

Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Swing Shift in 1984, and won an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995), which she starred in and directed.

She won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her role in Chicago Hope. When she won her Golden Globe in 1998, she was in the bathroom, which was highly publicized in the press. She later made it a point to be good-humored about the incident, usually poking fun at herself at other awards shows.

In 2001 her first directorial film My First Mister was released. Starring Leelee Sobieski and Albert Brooks the movie debuted with good reviews. In DVD commentary she applauds the work of her cast and crew, remarking "[I] was very lucky to have such a wonderful crew..." She did feel regret that the film was rated R, for language, despairing that the movie might not be viewed by teenagers would like and relate with the characters. Also, Lahti mentioned several times that she would have liked to have more time to shoot different perspectives in order to facilitate story arch.

Lahti is married to TV director Thomas Schlamme, a native of Texas. She mainly has acted in independent films or TV series in the past decade, and she is active in political causes. On September 4, 1983, married director Thomas Schlamme, with whom she has three children -- sons Wilson and Joseph, and daughter Emma.

Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

• …And Justice for All (1979)
• Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
• Swing Shift (1984)
• Just Between Friends (1986)
• Housekeeping (1987)
• Running on Empty (1988)
• Miss Firecracker (1989)
• Gross Anatomy(1989)
• The Doctor (1991)
• Crazy From the Heart (1991)
• Leaving Normal (1992)
• Chicago Hope (1994) (TV Series)
• Hideaway (1995)
• Hope(1997)
• Pie in the Sky (1996)
• My First Mister (2001)
• Women vs. Men (2002)
• The Pilot's Wife (2002)
• Out of the Ashes (2003)
• Jack & Bobby (2004 TV series)
• Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2004)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006 TV series)
• Smart People (2008)

• Christine Lahti at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series Michael Learned (1976) · Lindsay Wagner (1977) · Sada Thompson (1978) · Mariette Hartley (1979) · Barbara Bel Geddes (1980) · Barbara Babcock (1981) · Michael Learned (1982) · Tyne Daly (1983) · Tyne Daly (1984) · Tyne Daly (1985) · Sharon Gless (1986) · Sharon Gless (1987) · Tyne Daly (1988) · Dana Delany (1989) · Patricia Wettig (1990) · Patricia Wettig (1991) · Dana Delany (1992) · Kathy Baker (1993) · Sela Ward (1994) · Kathy Baker (1995) · Kathy Baker (1996) · Gillian Anderson (1997) · Christine Lahti (1998) · Edie Falco (1999) · Sela Ward (2000) Complete list: (1952-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

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NAME	Lahti, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Actor
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress, film director
DATE OF BIRTH	1950-4-4
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birmingham, Michigan, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH