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Christine Lahti

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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.  

04-04-1950

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Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.

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My Name Is Andrea

My Name Is Andrea

A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.
6.5

Year:

2022

Gloria: A Life

Gloria: A Life

Christine Lahti leads a cast composed of women to tell the story of Gloria Steinem's quest for women's equality and equality rights for others.
0.0

Year:

2020

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
7.0

Year:

2019

Becks

Becks

After a crushing breakup with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her Midwestern mother. As she navigates her hometown, playing for tip money in an old friend's bar, an unexpected relationship begins to take shape.
5.6

Year:

2018

Operator

Operator

Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Emily, a budding comedy performer, are happily married until they decide to use one another in their work. A dark comedy about love, technology, and what can’t be programmed.
5.8

Year:

2016

The Steps

The Steps

Siblings gather to meet their father's new wife and kids.
6.4

Year:

2016

Touched with Fire

Touched with Fire

Two young poets with bipolar disorder begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.
6.1

Year:

2016

Safelight

Safelight

A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
5.8

Year:

2015

Hateship Loveship

Hateship Loveship

A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
5.8

Year:

2014

Petunia

Petunia

Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.
5.2

Year:

2013

8

8

Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
0.0

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2012

Touchback

Touchback

A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
6.3

Year:

2011

Obsessed

Obsessed

Things couldn't be better for Derek Charles. He's just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon. However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa, a temporary worker at Derek's office. Lisa begins to stalk Derek, jeopardizing all he holds dear.
5.7

Year:

2009

Operating Instructions

Operating Instructions

A sergeant that came back from Iraq traumatized, find out the difficult about working on General hospital in San Diego.
0.0

Year:

2009

Smart People

Smart People

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
5.9

Year:

2008

Yonkers Joe

Yonkers Joe

Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life.
5.1

Year:

2008

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

A middle-aged woman has what she believes is a great life. She's been married for 25 years, she is the book editor at a newspaper where her husband is the editor and they have a great family. That all comes to a screeching halt one day when her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman. Not only that, but the younger woman is her assistant. Not only that, but he's taking the newspaper in "a new direction" and won't need her anymore. It's then that she finds out who her friends and the people who love her really are, and she gets a surprise when she runs into a man from her past.
5.0

Year:

2004

The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth

The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.
6.0

Year:

2004

Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Uta Hagen comments on acting
0.0

Year:

2004

Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
6.5

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2003

Open House

Open House

To make ends meet in this romantic drama, a devoted wife and mom takes in boarders and, while starting her life over, falls for the most unlikely of men, a warm-hearted blue-collar worker, in this adaptation of Elizabeth Berg's bestselling book.
3.0

Year:

2003

Women vs. Men

Women vs. Men

Seeking the excitement that was once part of their married lives, Bruce and Michael slip out one night to a gentleman's club. When their wives, Dana and Brit, discover this boys-night-out activity, the husbands are booted from their homes. In the men's ensuing efforts to get back into their wives' good graces, their previously unspoken views about marriage and women begin to surface to disturbing effect for their wives.
4.4

Year:

2002

The Pilot's Wife

The Pilot's Wife

Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline for whom he was a pilot. She starts however to uncover information which leads to her arrival in London for further investigation...and further devastation.
4.4

Year:

2002

An American Daughter

An American Daughter

A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury-duty notice. Then she makes a mistake in comments about her homemaker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her sure-fire nomination suddenly appears shaky.
4.4

Year:

2000

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor, whom she learned molested her 7 year old son. Seeking revenge, she turns to murder when she learns the man had previously been convicted of the same crime in 1983 and got off with probation.
7.2

Year:

1999

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains

A documentary look at the 'making of' and cult success of the troubled Lou Adler directed film "Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains" starring Diane Lane.
8.0

Year:

1999

Hope

Hope

The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.
5.2

Year:

1997

Subway Stories

Subway Stories

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
6.0

Year:

1997

A Weekend in the Country

A Weekend in the Country

Six people. One weekend. The possibilities are endless when city meets country in this roundelay of old flames, new flings, and last chances.
3.5

Year:

1996

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky

A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
6.6

Year:

1996

The Four Diamonds

The Four Diamonds

Christopher Millard was 14 years old when he died of cancer in 1972. Shortly before losing his battle, Chris wrote a story about a great knight named Sir Millard who sought out the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strength in order to be released from the grips of an evil sorceress. These diamonds symbolized the attributes that Chris believed were necessary to overcome cancer.
5.5

Year:

1995

Hideaway

Hideaway

Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
5.2

Year:

1995

Lieberman in Love

Lieberman in Love

Joe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.
6.9

Year:

1995

The Good Fight

The Good Fight

Grace Cragin is a bright young lawyer who has a passion for the fight against injustice. Her ex-husband Henry is a lawyer too, but his passion is only to win. The two were divorced ten years earlier when Henry's lust for conquest led him to other women. Now, Grace has a case she cannot win alone and, although she hates to admit it, she needs Henry's help.
6.0

Year:

1992

The Fear Inside

The Fear Inside

An agoraphobic children's book illustrator is trapped inside her home by two young psychos-in-love, who terrorize her. It is only when her young son is threatened that she manages to overcome her paralyzing fears and attempt to leave her home to save him...
3.5

Year:

1992

Leaving Normal

Leaving Normal

Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.
6.2

Year:

1992

Crazy From the Heart

Crazy From the Heart

A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
3.8

Year:

1991

The Doctor

The Doctor

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
6.4

Year:

1991

Funny About Love

Funny About Love

As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
4.7

Year:

1990

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
6.2

Year:

1989

Gross Anatomy

Gross Anatomy

Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
5.7

Year:

1989

Miss Firecracker

Miss Firecracker

Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.
5.6

Year:

1989

Running on Empty

Running on Empty

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
7.5

Year:

1988

Housekeeping

Housekeeping

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
6.6

Year:

1987

Stacking

Stacking

After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.
0.0

Year:

1987

Just Between Friends

Just Between Friends

Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.
5.2

Year:

1986

Desert Bloom

Desert Bloom

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.
5.5

Year:

1986

Love Lives On

Love Lives On

A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
8.0

Year:

1985

Single Bars, Single Women

Single Bars, Single Women

Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.
0.0

Year:

1984

Swing Shift

Swing Shift

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.
5.7

Year:

1984

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
6.3

Year:

1982

The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
5.8

Year:

1982

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
7.1

Year:

1981

The Henderson Monster

The Henderson Monster

A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
0.0

Year:

1980

...And Justice for All

...And Justice for All

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
7.1

Year:

1979

The Last Tenant

The Last Tenant

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
0.0

Year:

1978

Dr. Scorpion

Dr. Scorpion

A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
5.0

Year:

1978