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Christine Lahti
Lahti at the Governor's Ball held after the 49th Annual Emmy Awards, 1997
Born	4 April 1950 (1950-04-04) (age 57) Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Occupation	Actress, film director
Spouse(s)	Thomas Schlamme (1983-present)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Live Action Short Film 1995 Lieberman in Love Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series 1998 Chicago Hope Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie 1990 No Place Like Home Best Actress - Drama Series 1997 Chicago Hope Other Awards NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress 1984 Swing Shift

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Biography

Early life

Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, the daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (née Tabar), a painter, homemaker and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon.^[1] Lahti has Finnish ancestry. Her surname means "a gulf", "a bay" or "a cove" in Finnish; Lahti is also a city in Finland, near Helsinki. Lahti studied fine arts at Florida State University and received her bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Michigan, where she joined Delta Gamma sorority. She then toured Europe as part of a pantomime acting troupe. Birmingham is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Née redirects here. ... This article is about the medical specialty. ... Location within Finland Lahti (Lahtis in Swedish) is a Finnish city of 100,049 inhabitants (2006), bordering the Vesijärvi lake. ... Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Province Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Charter 1550 Capital city 1812 Government  - Mayor Jussi Pajunen Area  - Total 187. ... Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[8] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Delta Gamma (ΔΓ) is one of the oldest and largest womens fraternities[1] in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

Career

After university, Lahti headed to New York City, where she worked as a waitress and did commercials. Her breakthrough movie was …And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. After starring in a few blockbuster hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, Lahti has chosen to be primarily in movies she wants to act in, rather than take blockbuster roles, and she is adamant about spending time with her three children. She has also chosen to focus on television, beginning with her role in the 1979 made-for-TV adaptation of The Executioner's Song. She appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's seriocomic play, The Heidi Chronicles. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... ...And Justice for All is a 1979 film which tells the story of a defense lawyer who finds himself defending a corrupt judge charged with rape, even though he personally doesnt care for his client, and knows that he is guilty. ... // Events March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. ... Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American actor who is best known for playing the roles of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy . ... The Executioners Song book cover The Executioners Song is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. ... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. ... The Heidi Chronicles (1988) is an award-winning play by noted 20th century American playwright Wendy Wasserstein. ...

Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Swing Shift in 1984, and won an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995), which she starred in and directed. The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Swing Shift is a 1984 feature film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn with Kurt Russell. ... // Events The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name. ... // This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ...

She won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her role in Chicago Hope. When she won her Golden Globe in 1998, she was in the bathroom, which was highly publicized in the press. She later made it a point to be good-humored about the incident, usually poking fun at herself at other awards shows. An Emmy Award. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Chicago Hope was a popular CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 4, 2000. ...

Personal life

Lahti is married to TV director Thomas Schlamme, a native of Texas. She mainly has acted in independent films or TV series in the past decade, and she is active in political causes. On September 4, 1983, married director Thomas Schlamme, with whom she has three children -- sons Wilson and Joseph, and daughter Emma. A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Thomas Schlamme (born May 22, 1950) is one of the leading directors of television. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ...

Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Logo of Huffington Post The Huffington Post (often referred to on the Internet as HuffPo or HuffPost) is a politically liberal online news website and aggregated weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, featuring hyperlinks to various news sources and columnists. ...

Filmography

• …And Justice for All (1979)
• Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
• Swing Shift (1984)
• Housekeeping (1987)
• Running on Empty (1988)
• Miss Firecracker (1989)
• Gross Anatomy(1989)
• The Doctor (1991)
• Crazy From the Heart (1991)
• Leaving Normal (1992)
• Chicago Hope (1994) (TV Series)
• Hideaway (1995)
• Pie in the Sky (1996)
• My First Mister (2001)
• Women vs. Men (2002)
• Out of the Ashes (2003)
• Jack & Bobby (2004 TV series)
• Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2004)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006 TV series)

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References

External links

• Christine Lahti at the Internet Movie Database