Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2022 -- My Name Is Andrea | Pariah
2020 -- Gloria: A Life | Gloria Steinem
2019 -- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Ellen
2018 -- Becks | Ann
2016 -- Operator | Beth Larsen
2016 -- The Steps | Sherry
2016 -- Touched with Fire | Sara
2015 -- Safelight | Peg
2014 -- Hateship Loveship | Eileen
2013 -- Petunia | Felicia Petunia
2012 -- 8 | Kris Perry
2011 -- Touchback | Thelma
2009 -- Obsessed | Detective Monica Reese
2009 -- Operating Instructions | Commander Helen Keller
2008 -- Smart People | Nancy
2008 -- Yonkers Joe | Janice
2004 -- Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman | Rose
2004 -- The Book of Ruth | Maylene
2004 -- Uta Hagen's Acting Class | Self
2003 -- Out of the Ashes | Gisella Perl
2003 -- Open House | Samantha Morrow
2002 -- Women vs. Men | Dana
2002 -- The Pilot's Wife | Kathryn Lyons
2000 -- An American Daughter | Lyssa Dent Hughes
1999 -- Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story | Ellie Nesler
1997 -- Hope | Emma Percy
1997 -- Subway Stories | Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
1996 -- A Weekend in the Country | Ruth Oakley
1996 -- Pie in the Sky | Ruby
1995 -- The Four Diamonds | Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan
1995 -- Hideaway | Lindsey
1995 -- Lieberman in Love | Shaleen
1992 -- The Good Fight | Grace Cragin
1992 -- The Fear Inside | Meredith Cole
1992 -- Leaving Normal | Darly
1991 -- Crazy From the Heart | Charlotte Bain
1991 -- The Doctor | Anne
1990 -- Funny About Love | Meg
1989 -- No Place Like Home | Zan Cooper
1989 -- Gross Anatomy | Dr. Rachel Woodruff
1989 -- Miss Firecracker | Clara Archer
1988 -- Running on Empty | Annie Pope
1987 -- Housekeeping | Sylvie Fisher
1987 -- Stacking | Kathleen Morgan
1986 -- Just Between Friends | Sandy Dunlap
1986 -- Desert Bloom | Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)
1985 -- Love Lives On | Marilyn
1984 -- Single Bars, Single Women | Elsie
1984 -- Swing Shift | Hazel Zanussi
1982 -- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | Aunt Linda
1982 -- The Executioner's Song | Brenda Nicol
1981 -- Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Dr. Clare Scott
1980 -- The Henderson Monster | Dr. Louise Casimir
1979 -- ...And Justice for All | Gail Packer
1978 -- The Last Tenant | Carol
1978 -- Dr. Scorpion | Tania Reston
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