Acclaimed for her acting work on stage, screen and television, Director CHRISTINE LAHTI has always embraced challenges. When she made her short picture Lieberman in Love to test her skill as a director, it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1996.
Expanding into the arena of feature film direction with My First Mister, Lahti has not, of course, given up her commitment to acting. She's recently appeared in An American Daughter for Lifetime and in The Ellie Nessler Story for the USA Network.
This fall she will be seen in "The Pilot's Wife" on CBS and in "Ooph!" on Showtime.
Lahti recently was awarded the Women In Film's Independent Vision Award. She won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her work as Doctor Kathryn Austin in the series Chicago Hope. Other television appearances include No Place Like Home, Amerika, The Executioner's Song, Single Bars, Single Women and The Last Tenant with Lee Strasberg. She won a Cable Ace Award for the TNT movie Crazy From the Heart and starred in The Fear Inside for Showtime and The Good Fight for Lifetime.
A highly esteemed stage actress, she most recently co-starred with Richard Dreyfuss in Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels, a reprise of her successful role in the play at Circle Rep. She has appeared off and on Broadway many times including Pulitzer-Prize winning The Heidi Chronicles, Jules Feiffer's Little Murders and Michael Weller's Loose Ends and The Woods (Theater World Award).
Christine Lahti's feature film work includes Hideaway, where she starred opposite Jeff Goldblum, Leaving Normal, directed by Edward Zwick; The Doctor, starring opposite William Hurt; Funny About Love, Gross Anatomy and Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty, for which she received a Los Angeles Film Critics' Award and a Golden Globe nomination. She starred in Housekeeping for Bill Forsyth. Stacking, Just Between Friends, Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Norman Jewison's And Justice For All. In Swing Shift, directed by Jonathan Demme, Lahti played Goldie Hawn's best friend and earned the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics' Circle, LA Film Critics' Circle, as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.
Christine and her husband, filmmaker Thomas Schlamme, reside in Los Angeles with their children.
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