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 (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 (2012–19), and Laurel Hitchin in NBC's The Blacklist (2015–17). Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Lahti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  

Filmography

• 2026Bird in Hand — Carlotta
• Sheriff Country — Ruby Quinn
• Fire Country — Ruby Quinn
• 2022My Name Is Andrea — Pariah
• 2020Gloria: A Life — Gloria Steinem
• 2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Ellen
• Evil — Sheryl Luria
• 2018Becks — Ann
• The Good Fight — Andrea Stevens
• 2016Operator — Beth Larsen
• 2016The Steps — Sherry
• 2016Touched with Fire — Sara
• Grace and Frankie — Lydia Foster
• 2015Safelight — Peg
• 2014Hateship Loveship — Eileen
• 2013Petunia — Felicia Petunia
• The Blacklist — Laurel Hitchin
• 20128 — Kris Perry
• 2011Touchback — Thelma
• 2010Flying Lessons — Caroline Conway
• Hawaii Five-0 — Doris McGarrett
• 2009Obsessed — Detective Monica Reese
• 2009Operating Instructions — Commander Helen Keller
• The Good Wife — Andrea Stevens
• 2008Smart People — Nancy
• 2008Yonkers Joe — Janice
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Martha O'Dell
• Jack & Bobby — Grace McCallister
• 2004Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman — Rose
• 2004The Book of Ruth — Maylene
• 2003Open House — Samantha Morrow
• 2003Out of the Ashes — Gisella Perl
• 2002The Pilot's Wife — Kathryn Lyons
• 2002Women vs. Men — Dana
• 2001My First Mister — Director
• 2000An American Daughter — Lyssa Dent Hughes
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Christine Lahti
• 1999Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story — Ellie Nesler
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Sonya Paxton
• Ally McBeal — Sydney Gale
• 1997Hope — Emma Percy
• 1997Subway Stories — Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
• 1996A Weekend in the Country — Ruth Oakley
• 1996Pie in the Sky — Ruby
• 1995Hideaway — Lindsey
• 1995Lieberman in Love — Shaleen, Director
• 1995The Four Diamonds — Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan
• Chicago Hope — Kathryn Austin, Director
• Ellen — Ellen Screen Test #4
• Frasier — Laura (voice)
• 1992Leaving Normal — Darly
• 1992The Fear Inside — Meredith Cole
• 1992The Good Fight — Grace Cragin
• 1991Crazy From the Heart — Charlotte Bain
• 1991The Doctor — Anne
• 1990Funny About Love — Meg
• 1989Gross Anatomy — Dr. Rachel Woodruff
• 1989Miss Firecracker — Clara Archer
• 1989No Place Like Home — Zan Cooper
• 1988Running on Empty — Annie Pope
• Amerika — Alethea Milford
• 1987Housekeeping — Sylvie Fisher
• 1987Stacking — Kathleen Morgan
• 1986Desert Bloom — Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)
• 1986Just Between Friends — Sandy Dunlap
• 1985Love Lives On — Marilyn
• 1984Single Bars, Single Women — Elsie
• 1984Swing Shift — Hazel Zanussi
• American Playhouse — Kathleen Morgan
• 1982Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains — Aunt Linda
• 1982The Executioner's Song — Brenda Nicol
• The Executioner's Song — Brenda Nicol
• 1981Whose Life Is It Anyway? — Dr. Clare Scott
• Wolcott — Melinda Marin
• 1980The Henderson Monster — Dr. Louise Casimir
• 1979...And Justice for All — Gail Packer
• 1978Dr. Scorpion — Tania Reston
• The Harvey Korman Show
• 1978The Last Tenant — Carol
• Beverly Hills Cop — Helen

Appearances as themselves (11)

• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 2004Uta Hagen's Acting Class — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self - Guest
• 1999The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains — Self
• The View — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• MADtv — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Oscars — Self