Curiosidades

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.

Lahti is Finnish for bay or cove.

Her father was of Finnish descent and her mother was of Austro-Hungarian ancestry.

Children with her husband Thomas Schlamme: sons Wilson Lahti Schlamme and Joseph Schlamme; one daughter, Emma Lahti.

Graduated from Florida State University.

Traveled to Scotland with the Ann Arbor Mime Troupe.

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

She was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue for Outstanding Performance for "Three Hotels" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Worked as a waitress in the Original Improvisation during her New York years.

Studied with William Esper and Uta Hagen.

Lahti designated O Grande Vigarista (1974) and Longa Jornada Noite Adentro (1962) as her favorite films in an AFI poll.

As of 2018, has never appeared in a film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

Good friends with Pamela Martin.