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Christine Lahti (born
April 4,
1950) is an
American actress and
Academy Award-winning
film director.
Biography
Early life
Lahti was born in
Birmingham, Michigan, the daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (
née Tabar), a painter, homemaker and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a
surgeon. 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.
Career
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's 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.
Personal life
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's active in political causes. On September 4, 1983, married director Thomas Schlamme, with whom she's three children -- sons Wilson and Joseph, and daughter Emma.
Since May 2005, she's been a contributing blogger at
The Huffington Post.
Filmography
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