Christine Lahti

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1950-04-04 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.

Christine Lahti

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-t...

Acting

1981

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

as Dr. Clare Scott

1991

The Doctor

as Anne

1995

Hideaway

as Lindsey

2008

Yonkers Joe

as Janice

1979

1987

Housekeeping

as Sylvie Fisher

1989

Gross Anatomy

as Dr. Rachel Woodruff

1984

Swing Shift

as Hazel Zanussi

2009

Obsessed

as Detective Monica Reese

1988

Running on Empty

as Annie Pope

2003

Out of the Ashes

as Gisella Perl

1982

The Executioner's Song

as Brenda Nicol

1992

2011

Touchback

as Thelma

2013

Petunia

as Felicia Petunia

2002

The Pilot's Wife

as Kathryn Lyons

2000

An American Daughter

as Lyssa Dent Hughes

2022

1980

The Henderson Monster

as Dr. Louise Casimir

1989

No Place Like Home

as Zan Cooper

2014

1995

1991

Crazy From the Heart

as Charlotte Bain

1989

Miss Firecracker

as Clara Archer

2002

2004

1992

The Fear Inside

as Meredith Cole

1996

2003

Open House

as Samantha Morrow

1997

Hope

as Emma Percy

1995

The Four Diamonds

as Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan

2015

Safelight

as Peg

1985

Love Lives On

as Marilyn

1978

1986

Just Between Friends

as Sandy Dunlap

1996

2016

Operator

as Beth Larsen

2012

8

as Kris Perry

2016

The Steps

as Sherry

2018

Becks

as Ann

2008

Smart People

as Nancy

1987

Stacking

as Kathleen Morgan

1992

The Good Fight

as Grace Cragin

1986

Desert Bloom

as Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)

1997

Subway Stories

as Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")

2020

Gloria: A Life

as Gloria Steinem

2009

Operating Instructions

as Commander Helen Keller

1978

Dr. Scorpion

as Tania Reston

2025

Bird in Hand

as Carlotta

Production

2001

My First Mister

as Director

1995

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