Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. She moved to New York City in the 1970s to work as a waitress. She started off working in commercials, and her breakthrough movie was ...And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. After starring in a few blockbuster hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, Lahti has primarily chosen to be in movies she wants to act in - rather than take blockbuster roles, and she is adamant about spending time with her three children.

Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best 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. She has won one Emmy and two Golden Globes for her role in Chicago Hope. When she won her Golden Globe in 1998, she was in the bathroom, which was highly-publicized in the press. After that event, she made it a point to be good-humored about it, usually poking fun at herself at other awards shows.

Lahti is married to TV director Thomas Schlamme. She mainly has acted in independent films or TV series in the past decade, and she is active in political causes.


Selected Filmography

  • ...And Justice for All (1979)
  • Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
  • Swing Shift (1984)
  • Running on Empty (1988)
  • Miss Firecracker (1989)
  • The Doctor (1991)
  • Crazy From the Heart (1991)
  • Chicago Hope (1994) (TV Series)

External Link

  • IMDb Entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001441/)

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. She mainly has acted in independent films or TV series in the past decade, and she is active in political causes. Malone was married and divorced three times and has two daughters from her first marriage. Lahti is married to TV director Thomas Schlamme. Her last notable screen appearance was as a mother convicted of murdering her family in Basic Instinct (1992), with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. After that event, she made it a point to be good-humored about it, usually poking fun at herself at other awards shows. Malone became a household name when she accepted the lead role of Constance MacKenzie Carson on the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, on which she starred from 1964 through 1968.

When she won her Golden Globe in 1998, she was in the bathroom, which was highly-publicized in the press. As a result, she was offered meatier roles in better films, including Man of a Thousand Faces (with James Cagney), Tarnished Angels (again with Hudson and Stack, again directed by Sirk), and The Last Voyage (with Stack). She has won one Emmy and two Golden Globes for her role in Chicago Hope. Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best 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. In 1956, Malone dyed her hair blonde to co-star with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's melodrama, Written on the Wind. After starring in a few blockbuster hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, Lahti has primarily chosen to be in movies she wants to act in - rather than take blockbuster roles, and she is adamant about spending time with her three children. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in Grade-B Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946.

She started off working in commercials, and her breakthrough movie was ...And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. She was born as Dorothy Eloise Maloney on January 30, 1925. She moved to New York City in the 1970s to work as a waitress. Dorothy Malone is an American actress. Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. IMDb Entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001441/).

Chicago Hope (1994) (TV Series). Crazy From the Heart (1991). The Doctor (1991). Miss Firecracker (1989).

Running on Empty (1988). Swing Shift (1984). Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981). ...And Justice for All (1979).