Christine Lahti

Highest Rated: 100% Operator (2016)

Lowest Rated: 0% Safelight (2015)

Birthday: Apr 4, 1950

Birthplace: Not Available

Unpredictable American actress Christine Lahti majored in drama at the University of Michigan, then toured Europe with a group of pantomimists. She studied with Uta Hagen in New York, taking whatever stage work that came along (including her Obie award-winning performance in an Off-Broadway revival of Little Murders) before being steadily employed on TV. In 1978, Lahti was co-starred in The Harvey Korman Show as Korman's daughter. The following year, she made her first film, ...And Justice for All. A scene stealer par excellence, Lahti often found her film roles reduced in the cutting room, usually at the behest of nervous stars. Her performance as Hazel Zenutti in Swing Shift (1984) was severely pared down after previews, but that didn't prevent Lahti from being nominated for an Oscar. The endearingly off-balance nature of many of Lahti's screen characters is best summed up by her scene in Housekeeping (1987), in which she calmly carries on a conversation while her living room fills up with water. In 1995, Lahti joined the cast of the Emmy-Award-winning TV medical drama Chicago Hope, playing the part of heart-surgeon Dr. Kathryn Austin.

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MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
100%	Operator	Beth Larsen	—	2016
0%	Safelight	Peg	—	2015
33%	The Steps	Actor	—	2015
50%	Hateship Loveship	Eileen	—	2014
No Score Yet	Petunia	Felicia Petunia	—	2013
No Score Yet	Flying Lessons	Actor	—	2012
38%	Touchback	Thelma	$0.3M	2012
No Score Yet	Flying Lessons	Carolyn Conway	—	2010
19%	Obsessed	Reese	$68.3M	2009
55%	Yonkers Joe	Janice	—	2009
No Score Yet	Operating Instructions	Actor	—	2009
49%	Smart People	Nancy	$9.5M	2008
No Score Yet	The A.C.L.U. Freedom Files	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman	Rose	—	2004
No Score Yet	The Book of Ruth	Maylene	—	2004
No Score Yet	Open House	Samantha Morrow	—	2004
No Score Yet	Uta Hagen's Acting Class	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Out of the Ashes	Gisella Perl	—	2003
No Score Yet	Women vs. Men	Dana	—	2002
No Score Yet	The Pilot's Wife	Kathryn Lyons	—	2002
53%	My First Mister	Director	—	2002
No Score Yet	An American Daughter	Lyssa Dent Hughes	—	2000
No Score Yet	Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story	Ellie Nesler	—	1999
No Score Yet	Hope	Emma Percy	—	1997
No Score Yet	Subway Stories	Red-Shoe Woman	—	1997
No Score Yet	A Weekend in the Country	Ruth Oakley	—	1996
No Score Yet	Pie in the Sky	Ruby	—	1996
14%	Hideaway	Lindsey	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Fear Inside	Meredith Cole	—	1992
No Score Yet	La Gran Pelea	Grace Cragin	—	1992
25%	Leaving Normal	Darly Peters	—	1992
86%	The Doctor	Anne MacKee	—	1991
No Score Yet	Locuras del Corazón	Charlotte Bain	—	1991
0%	Funny About Love	Meg Lloyd Bergman	—	1990
30%	Gross Anatomy	Dr. Rachel Woodruff	—	1989
70%	Miss Firecracker	Clara Archer	—	1989
85%	Running on Empty	Annie Pope/Cynthia Manfield	—	1988
No Score Yet	Stacking	Kathleen Morgan	—	1987
100%	Housekeeping	Sylvie	—	1987
No Score Yet	Amerika	Althea Milford	—	1987
33%	Just Between Friends	Sandy Dunlap	—	1986
92%	Swing Shift	Hazel	—	1984
No Score Yet	Single Bars, Single Women	Elsie	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Executioner's Song	Brenda Nicol	—	1982
80%	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	Dr. Clare Scott	—	1981
No Score Yet	Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains	Aunt Linda	—	1981
No Score Yet	The Henderson Monster	Actor	—	1980
81%	...And Justice for All	Gail Packer	—	1979

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
85%	The Blacklist 2013	Actor	2016
98%	The Good Wife 2009-2016	Andrea Stevens	2016 2015
No Score Yet	Hawaii Five-0 2010	Doris McGarrett	2016 2014 2013 2012 2010
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2015 2012
No Score Yet	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999	ADA Sonya Paxton	2011 2010 2009
No Score Yet	Ally McBeal 1997-2002	Sydney Gale	2001
No Score Yet	Frasier 1993-2004	Voice of Laura	1994

Quotes from Christine Lahti's Characters

Gisella Perl:

Those of us who did not survive, they were the best of us.

Gisella Perl:

Auschwitz was it;s own country, with its own rules and its own logic, and these rules changed from day to day, from situation to situation. We, who were there, who lived it, could not judge one another. So it is impossible, no, no, it is absurd for you men, sitting here, to judge me.

Ruth:	"There's a man yelling at us," says a worried Ruth.
Ruth:	There's a man yelling at us.
Sylvie:	"Oh, I know," says Aunt Sylvie.
Sylvie:	Oh, I know.

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