Christine Lahti - biography
Christine Lahti is an American of Finnish descent. She is an Academy Award-winner (Lieberman in Love, 1995); an Emmy Award-winner (Chicago Hope, 1999) and a multiple Golden Globe Award-winner (No Place Like Home, 1989, and Chicago Hope, 1999).
Unpredictable American actress, Christine Lahti studied fine arts at Florida State University, and majored in drama at the University of Michigan, then toured Europe with a group of pantomimists.
Lahti 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.
Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Swing Shift in 1984, and won an Academy Award - as a director - for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995), which she also starred in.
Christine Lahti also appeared in The Pilot's Wife, the highest-rated single-part television movie of 2001-2002.
Trivia
Lahti means a gulf, a bay of water, or a cove, in Finnish language. Lahti is also a town in Finland, near Helsinki.
Chistine Lahti has never done a nude scene - or posed nude - in her 25+ years in show business.
When she won her Golden Globe award in 1998, Christine Lahti was in the bathroom. Christine now makes light of this, whenever presenting or receiving an award. In 1999, she purposely presented for the Golden Globes with a piece of toilet paper attached to her shoe.
Christine Lahti was born on April 4, 1950, in Birmingham, Michigan, to surgeon Paul Theodore Lahti and painter Elizabeth M. Tabor (died on December 23, 1995), both of whom are of Finnish ancestry.
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