GOD OF CARNAGE Character Card: Christine Lahti as Veronica

Name:
Veronica

Relationship:
Michael's Wife

Portrayed by:
Christine earned her first Oscar nomination in 1985's Swing Shift then won an Oscar 10 years later as a first-time director for her short film Lieberman in Love. In 1998, after multiple nominations, Lahti won both the Emmy and her second Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Dr. Kathryn Austin on "Chicago Hope." Three years later her feature film directorial debut My First Mister opened the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Lahti currently stars in four episodes of the new season of "Law & Order: SVU." Other projects have included Smart People, Yonkers Joe, and upcoming Obsessed. Lahti starred in the West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wendy Wasserstein's final play, Third, at the Geffen Playhouse. The play marked her third collaboration with the late playwright - the first being The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway in 1989 and "An American Daughter" for Lifetime in 2000. Film credits include Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty (1998 LA Film Critics Award, Golden Globe nomination), Leaving Normal, The Doctor, Bill Forsyth's Housekeeping, Whose Life is it Anyway? and ...and Justice for All. Television credits include "Jack & Bobby," (SAG, Golden Globe nominations), "Amerika," (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), "Out of the Ashes," "The Pilot's Wife," "Open House," and "The Book of Ruth." Lahti starred in Three Hotels at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. This presentation was a reprisal of her successful run in the play, which premiered at New York's Circle Rep Theater. She received a Drama Desk nomination for her role. Additional theatre credits include, Jules Feiffer's i, (Obie Award). Michael Weller's Loose Ends, Noel Coward's Present Laughter, John Guare's Landscape of the Body, Clifford Odet's The Country Girl, David Mamet's The Woods (Theater World Award), Ted Tally's Hooters and Steve Tisch's Division Street.

See this cast of God of Carnage through February 28th!