Christine Lahti

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Christine Lahti

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). For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Family

Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, the daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (nee Tabar; 1920 to 1995), a painter, homemaker, and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti (1919 to 2001), a surgeon. She has three sisters, Carol, Catherine, and Linda, and two brothers, Paul Jr. and James Lahti. Her paternal grandparents were Finnish immigrants and her maternal grandparents were from Austria-Hungary. Lahti was raised in the Lutheran Church.

Lahti has been married to television director Thomas Schlamme since September 4, 1983. They have three children.

Christine Ann Lahti (1950-) is an American actress and filmmaker.

Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, her father Paul Theodore Lahti was a surgeon of Finnish descent, her mother a home-maker and a nurse of a family with roots in the former Austria-Hungary.

Lahti studied Fine Arts at Florida State University and received her bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Michigan,

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). 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 (2012–16), and Laurel Hitchin in NBC's The Blacklist (2015–17).

Lahti has been married to television director Thomas Schlamme since September 4, 1983. They have three children. She is active in political causes. Lahti and Schlamme live in Los Angeles. Since May 2005, Lahti has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

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Christine Lahti (1950- ) on yhdysvaltalainen näyttelijä ja Oscar-palkittu ohjaaja. Lahden isä oli toisen polven amerikansuomalainen. Hänen äitinsä vanhemmat olivat kotoisin Itävalta-Unkarista. Perhe oli

Muun muassa televisiosarjoista Chicagon lääkärit (eng. Chicago Hope) ja Jack & Bobby tunnettu Lahti sai Oscarin vuonna 1995 osastaan lyhytelokuvassa Lieberman In Love. High Halls -elokuvafestivaali myönsi Lahdelle Susan B. Anthonyn Failure Is Impossible -tunnustuksen. Hän on voittanut myös tv:n Emmy-palkinnon sekä kaksi Golden Globe -tunnustusta. Lähde: Wikipedia