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Christine Lahti: Chicago Hope
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Critically acclaimed stage, screen and television actress Christine Lahti currently stars in the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope, for which she recently received a second consecutive Emmy® nomination for Best Actress. Additional accolades include the 1995 Oscar® for Best Live Action Short Film for her directiorial debut, Lieberman in Love, in which she ... starred. Other television credits include No Place Like Home, which brought her an Emmy® nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a television movie; Amerika, for which she received Emmy® and Golden Globe nominations; The Executioner's Song; Single Bars, Single Women; The Last Tenant; and TNT's Crazy From The Heart, for which she won the CableAce Award for Best Actress. Lahti's feature credits include Leaving Normal, Housekeeping, Just Between Friends, The Doctor and Running on Empty, for which she was awarded the LA Film Critics Award for Best Actress. Lahti also earned an Oscar® nomination and won the NY and LA Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Swing Shift, with Goldie Hawn.
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With Third, which she saw when it played Off-Broadway, Lahti will be back on stage for the first time since Three Hotels, in 1995. Raising three children with her husband, director Thomas Schlamme, has curtailed her stage work over the past decade. Her film and TV roles... have been steady and largely high quality. In this regard, Lahti admits to being fortunate, as most female actors past age 40 face slim pickings. Not so for Lahti, who since leaving the series Chicago Hope in 1999 has strung together a succession of quality performances in TV movies, as well as stints on Jack & Bobby and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
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On the New York stage, Lahti starred in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles. She received an Obie Award for her performance in the revival of Jules Feiffer's Little Murders. Lahti made her film debut in ...And Justice For All (1979). She was Oscar-nominated for her supporting performance in Swing Shift (1984). In 1995, Lahti joined the cast of the television drama Chicago Hope - earning her both an Emmy and Golden Globe. She ... won an Oscar for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995) for which she both starred and directed.
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Part of the Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait series, this video takes a look at film and television actress Christine Lahti. Narrated by friend and fellow actress Mary Kay Place, this documentary starts with Lahti's growing-up in Michigan as one of six children. Her professional career led her to Broadway and then on to Hollywood, where she started out in TV-movies and eventually moved to the big screen, only to move back to the small screen in 1995 when she joined the cast of the TV medical drama Chicago Hope. The documentary focuses on her struggle with Hollywood glamour, her career after age 40, and her Hollywood marriage, told, in part, through interviews with the actress herself, along with family and co-workers, including Goldie Hawn and Ted Danson. Also on the video is home movie footage and clips from her many TV and film roles. ~ Cecilia Cygnar, All Movie Guide
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Lahti won an Emmy Award for her work as Dr. Kathryn Austin on TV's "Chicago Hope." She began her career on the New York stage, working with such theatre companies as Playwrights Horizons (first appearing there in the 1978 play Hooters by Ted Tally), The Public (David Mamet's The Woods), Second Stage (Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, Obie Award) and John Guare's Landscape of the Body) and Circle Rep (Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels, Drama Desk nomination).
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In 1995, Lahti won an Academy Award for her direction of the Live Action Short Film Lieberman in Love, in which she ... starred. She has also directed several episodes of Chicago Hope, in which she starred for four years as “Doctor Kathryn Austin.” She was awarded was awarded both the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for her work on Chicago Hope.
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