Christine Lahti

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Christine Lahti currently headlines the critically acclaimed WB series "Jack and Bobby" (SAG and Golden Globe nominations). Other television credits include CBS's "Chicago Hope" (Emmy and Golden Globe Awards), CBS's "The Pilots Wife," Showtime's "Out of Ashes," CBS's "The Book of Ruth," Lifetime's "An American Daughter" (Golden Globe nomination), USA Network's "The Ellie Nessler Story," "No Place Like Home" (Emmy nomination and Golden Globe Award), "Amerika" (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), and TNT's "Crazy From the Heart" (Cable Ace Award).

Film credits include "Leaving Normal", "The Doctor", "Funny About Love", "Gross Anatomy", "Running on Empty" (Los Angeles Film Critic's Award and Golden Globe nomination), "Housekeeping", "Just Between Friends", "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" and "Swing Shift" (Best Supporting Actress from the New York Film Critics' Circle as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.)

Directing credits include "Lieberman in Love" (Academy Award for Live Action Short), "My First Mister" (opening night presentation at the Sundance Film Festival) and several episodes of CBS's "Chicago Hope."

Broadway and Off Broadway credits include "Three Hotels" (Drama Desk nomination), "The Heidi Chronicles", "Little Murders" (Obie Award), "Loose Ends", "Present Laughter", "Landscape of the Body", "The Country Girl", "The Woods" (Theater World Award), "Hooters", and "Division Street." Regionally, her theater credits include "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Long Wharf Theater, "Summer Smoke" at the Ahmanson Theater, "Moon for the Misbegotten" and the "Lucky Spot" at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

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Blog Entries by Christine Lahti

Unmarried Women: This Election's Holy Grail

174 Comments | Posted November 4, 2007 | 09:33 PM (EST)

During the run-up to the 2004 election, I traveled around the country in support of John Kerry. Day after day on the road, I was blown away by the unbelievable women I met. From Hollywood to Hoboken, I saw first hand that this country is made-up of amazing women who...

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My Daughter, My Sister

Posted April 10, 2007 | 11:10 AM (EST)

When my daughter Emma was 10 years old, we marched together in Washington D.C. in "The March For Women's Lives," and I watched her become a feminist. I know that's a word she would use because she knows that the true definition of the word "feminist" is, simply, someone who...

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Cindy Sheehan Is My Hero

Posted August 11, 2005 | 08:09 PM (EST)

Cindy Sheehan is my hero. She is the hero of all Americans who make up the 62% of us who oppose this war. As an American exercising her right to free speech, she is a brave, passionate, living example of democracy, and she has the undeniable force and the moral...

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"Africa's Time Has Come"

Posted May 26, 2005 | 01:30 AM (EST)

I've been hesitating to blog -- about anything. Except maybe acting...maybe parenting (although there are days I think I know nothing about those subjects either). Frankly, I've felt a little self conscious getting on a soapbox about subjects I feel very strongly about, but on which I'm hardly an expert....

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