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 (1995β99). 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 (2009β11), as Doris McGarrett in the CBS series Hawaii Five-0 (2012β19), and Laurel Hitchin in NBC's The Blacklist (2015β17).
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Filmography (89)
Bird in Hand
2025
Sheriff Country
2025
My Name Is Andrea
2022
Fire Country
2022
Gloria: A Life
2020
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
Evil
2019
Becks
2018
The Good Fight
2017
Touched with Fire
2016
Operator
2016
The Steps
2016
Safelight
2015
Grace and Frankie
2015
Hateship Loveship
2014
Petunia
2013
The Blacklist
2013
8
2012
Touchback
2011
Flying Lessons
2010
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Obsessed
2009
Operating Instructions
2009
The Good Wife
2009
Yonkers Joe
2008
Smart People
2008
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
2004
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004
The Book of Ruth
2004
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Jack & Bobby
2004
Out of the Ashes
2003
Open House
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Pilot's Wife
2002
Women vs. Men
2002
An American Daughter
2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
1999
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Hope
1997
Subway Stories
1997
Ally McBeal
1997
The View
1997
A Weekend in the Country
1996
Pie in the Sky
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Hideaway
1995
Lieberman in Love
1995
The Four Diamonds
1995
MADtv
1995
Chicago Hope
1994
Ellen
1994
Frasier
1993
Intimate Portrait
1993
Leaving Normal
1992
The Fear Inside
1992
The Good Fight
1992
The Doctor
1991
Crazy From the Heart
1991
Funny About Love
1990
Gross Anatomy
1989
No Place Like Home
1989
Miss Firecracker
1989
Running on Empty
1988
Housekeeping
1987
Stacking
1987
Amerika
1987
Just Between Friends
1986
Desert Bloom
1986
Love Lives On
1985
Swing Shift
1984
Single Bars, Single Women
1984
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
The Executioner's Song
1982
The Executioner's Song
1982
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
Wolcott
1981
The Henderson Monster
1980
...And Justice for All
1979
The Last Tenant
1978
Dr. Scorpion
1978
The Harvey Korman Show
1978
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Oscars
1953
Beverly Hills Cop