<P> Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, the daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (née Tabar; 1920--1995), a painter, homemaker, and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti (1919--2001), a surgeon . She has three sisters, Carol, Catherine, and Linda, and two brothers, Paul Jr. and James Lahti . Her paternal grandparents were Finnish immigrants and her maternal grandparents were from Austria - Hungary . Lahti was raised in the Lutheran Church . </P> <P> Lahti studied Fine Arts at Florida State University and received her bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Michigan, where she joined Delta Gamma sorority . </P> <P> After college, Lahti headed to New York City in 1973, where she worked as a waitress and did commercials . Her breakthrough movie was...And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino . An important role was in Running on Empty, a 1988 movie in which she and Judd Hirsch played the parents of a musically promising son; the family went underground to avoid the FBI after the parents had damaged a napalm factory, and they all must periodically move on short notice and assume new identities . She has also focused on television, beginning with her role in the made - for - TV adaptation of The Executioner's Song (1982). She appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's seriocomic play, The Heidi Chronicles . Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Swing Shift (1984), and won an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995), in which she starred and directed . It was adapted from Lieberman in Love, a short story by W.P. Kinsella . Lahti won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1998 for her role in Chicago Hope . Christine was in the bathroom when she won the third award and finally came to the stage following an attempt by show producer John Tinker to accept on her behalf and an interruptive riff by Robin Williams . In 1999, she presented with a piece of toilet paper attached to her shoe . </P> <P> In 2001, her first directorial feature - length film, My First Mister, was released . Starring Leelee Sobieski and Albert Brooks, the movie debuted with good reviews . In DVD commentary she applauds the work of her cast and crew, remarking "(I) was very lucky to have such a wonderful crew ..." She said she felt regret that the film was rated R, for language, despairing that the movie might not be viewed by teenagers who would like and relate with the characters . Also, Lahti mentioned that she would have liked to have had more time to shoot different perspectives in order to facilitate story arc . Lahti starred in the Executive ADA role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sonya Paxton, while the character Alexandra Cabot (Stephanie March) was in appeals . She was in the first four episodes of the 11th season and returned for the show's eighth episode, where she clashed with Alexandra Cabot . Lahti later guest starred in the ninth and seventeenth episode of the 12th season where she reprised her role as Executive ADA Sonya Paxton . Her character was murdered in the seventeenth episode . </P>

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