Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti starred on Broadway in God of Carnage, The Heidi Chronicles, Present Laughter with George C. Scott, Division Street, and Loose Ends. Recent credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’ F*CKing A (Signature). Off-Broadway: Landscape of the Body; The Country Girl; The Woods (Theatre World Award, Public Theatre); Hooters (Playwrights Horizons); Three Hotels (Drama Desk nomination); and Little Murders (Obie Award). In Los Angeles: Three Hotels with Richard Dreyfus (Mark Taper Forum); Third and Love, Loss and What I Wore (Geffen Playhouse). She earned her first Oscar nomination for Swing Shift, then took the statue home 10 years later as a first-time director for her short film Lieberman in Love. Other film credits include Running on Empty; Leaving Normal; The Doctor; Housekeeping; Whose Life is it Anyway?; …and Justice for All. Television: Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for “Chicago Hope”; Golden Globe for “No Place Like Home”; “Jack & Bobby” (SAG, Golden Globe nominations); “Amerika” (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations); “Out of the Ashes”; “The Pilot’s Wife”; “Open House”; “The Book of Ruth”; “Grace and Frankie”; “Hawaii Five-O” and “Law & Order SVU,” among others. She is married to director Thomas Schlamme, and the couple have three children.