- Born
- Birth nameChristine Ann Lahti
- Height1.78 m
- Christine Lahti was born April 4, 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, to Elizabeth Margaret (Tabar), a painter and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. She is of half Finnish and half Austro-Hungarian descent. She studied fine arts at Florida State University and received a bachelors degree in drama from the University of Michigan. In New York, Christine worked as a waitress and did commercials before she found her breakthrough role in Justice pour tous (1979) with Al Pacino. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Swing Shift (1984) and won an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995) in which she starred and directed. Throughout her acting career, Christine primarily focused on television, with performances in Chicago Hope, la vie à tout prix (1994), and New York - Unité spéciale (1999).- IMDb mini biography by: tony.r.vario@gmail.com
- SpouseThomas Schlamme(September 4, 1983 - present) (3 children)
- ChildrenJoseph Schlamme
- ParentsElizabeth Margaret TabarPaul Theodore Lahti
- Deep smooth voice
- Protested alongside fellow actresses Sally Field & Jane Fonda, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slayings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. (February 2004)
- Christine was in the bathroom when she won her Golden Globe in 1998 and now makes light of this whenever presenting or receiving an award. In 1999, she purposely presented at the Golden Globe Awards with a piece of toilet paper attached to her shoe.
- In an interview on NPR, she referred to her role as A.D.A. Paxton on Law & Order: SVU, as one of her most rewarding roles on television. She said that she loved it so much she hoped there was a chance they could write her back in as a ghost, or in flashbacks. (Paxton was killed off in Season 13.).
- During her early years in New York, Christine was a waitress and worked in Central Park as a mime.
- Has never done a nude scene nor posed nude in her 43+ years in show business.
- (1998) I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. I was so hooked on cigarettes that I allowed them to control my life. I had started smoking when I was 14 and after 20 years was up to 2 1/2 packs a day. I stay disciplined about eating right and working out now because once you get rid of something that self-destructive, you don't want unhealthy behavior anywhere in your life.
- [on her role in "Just Between Friends") Sandy was the closest to me of any character I've played.
- [on her college years in Ann Arbor] I was a hippie, but not a good one. I was secretly ambitious. I'd secretly watched the Academy Awards, which was definitely not cool.
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