Christine Lahti
Christine Ann Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and filmmaker.[1] She was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actress for Swing Shift, a 1984 movie. The first movie she directed was the 1995 short movie Lieberman in Love, she won an Academy Award for the Best Live Action Short Film.
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Lahti began on Broadway as a replacement in Loose Ends. She went on to perform in the Broadway plays Present Laughter (1982) and The Heidi Chronicles (1989).
Lahti is an eight-time Golden Globe Award nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee. She won a Golden Globe Award for the 1989 television movie No Place Like Home. She won a Golden Globe and Emmy in 1998 for her role as Kate Austin in the series Chicago Hope.
Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, a Detroit suburb.
References
- "Told She'd Never Make it, Christine Lahti Has the Last Laugh". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 11, 2021.