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Christine Lahti

Lahti at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, April 2008
Born 4 April 1950 (1950-04-04) (age 58)
Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Occupation Actress, film director
Spouse(s) Thomas Schlamme (1983-present)

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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. Birmingham is an upscale city in Oakland County of the US state of Michigan. In Medicine, a surgeon is a person who performs Surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive Medical treatment that involves the cutting of a [1] Lahti has Finnish ancestry. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. Her surname means "a gulf", "a bay" or "a cove" in Finnish; Lahti is also a city in Finland, near Helsinki. Finnish ( or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% As of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside Lahti ( Swedish: Lahtis) is a city and Municipality in Finland. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. Helsinki (in Finnish;) or Helsingfors (in Swedish;) is the Capital and largest city of Finland. 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. Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU) is a public Research University located in Tallahassee A bachelor's degree is usually an Undergraduate Academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three four or in some cases and The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Delta Gamma ( ΔΓ) is one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States and Canada with its Executive Offices based in Columbus She then toured Europe as part of a pantomime acting troupe.

Career

Lahti at the Governor's Ball held after the 49th Annual Emmy Awards, 1997
Lahti at the Governor's Ball held after the 49th Annual Emmy Awards, 1997

After university, Lahti headed to New York City, where she worked as a waitress and did commercials. The City of New York Her breakthrough movie was …And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. The year 1979 in film involved some significant events Events March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode Alfredo James “Al” Pacino (born April 25 1940 is an Academy - BAFTA - Golden Globe - Emmy - & Screen Actors Guild Award-Winning 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. The Executioner's Song is a 1980 Pulitzer Prize -winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of She appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's seriocomic play, The Heidi Chronicles. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Wendy Wasserstein ( October 18 1950 – January 30 2006) was an American Playwright and an Andrew Dickson White The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play premiered in 1988 Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons where there

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. Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS 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 Lieberman in Love is a 1995 short film directed by Christine Lahti.

She won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her role in Chicago Hope. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner Chicago Hope is an American Emmy Award -winning CBS Medical drama series created by David E 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.

Personal life

Lahti is married to TV director Thomas Schlamme, a native of Texas. A television director directs the activities involved in making a Television Episode. Thomas Schlamme (born May 22, 1950) is an American Television director. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. 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.

Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post (often referred to on the Internet as HuffPo) is a liberal News Website and aggregated Weblog

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Christine Lahti Biography (1950-)

External links

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NAME Lahti, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Actor
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress, film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1950-4-4
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, Michigan, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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