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Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer and director.
Thompson is best known for her roles as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Dennis the Menace (1993), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). In the 1990s, Thompson played the title character Caroline Duffy in the sitcom Caroline in the City. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.
Lea Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota, one of five children of Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician. She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona, and two brothers, Andrew and Barry. Thompson is of Irish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and distant Dutch ancestry.
Thompson studied ballet as a child (as did her older brother Andrew) and was dancing professionally by age 14, winning scholarships to the San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.[citation needed]
At age 20, Thompson was dancing with American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company, then known as ABT II.[citation needed] Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was the artistic director at the time, told her, "You're a lovely dancer, but you're too stocky." She said it was "my epiphany when I decided to stop dancing and not be a ballet dancer. It was a wonderful moment because I could've been banging my head against the wall for another 10 years." Thompson left ballet, but her older brother continued and went on to have a long career in the field.
Thompson changed her focus to acting and moved to New York at age 20.[citation needed] She appeared in a number of Burger King advertisements in the 1980s with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elisabeth Shue, her later co-star in Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III.
In 1982, Thompson played Cecily "Sissy" Loper in the interactive live-action video game MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone?. She made her movie debut in 1983 with Jaws 3-D. Thompson recalled the film as "the very first movie I ever got, but I lied and said I had done a couple of other movies, so when I showed up, I really knew absolutely nothing. Also, I had said that I knew how to water ski. And I did not. So I had, like, five days to learn really, really complicated water-skiing things, because I had to fit into the Sea World water-skiing show. I don't even know how to swim!" Thompson followed this with All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), and The Wild Life (1984).
Thompson's most famous role is that of Lorraine Baines McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, with the first film released in 1985. Her character is the mother of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), whom Marty meets when she is a 1950s teenager after he travels back in time. Marty has to avoid letting Lorraine fall in love with him instead of with his future father, George McFly (Crispin Glover), leading to awkward scenes in which Lorraine is attracted to Marty.
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Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer and director.
Thompson is best known for her roles as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Dennis the Menace (1993), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). In the 1990s, Thompson played the title character Caroline Duffy in the sitcom Caroline in the City. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.
Lea Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota, one of five children of Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician. She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona, and two brothers, Andrew and Barry. Thompson is of Irish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and distant Dutch ancestry.
Thompson studied ballet as a child (as did her older brother Andrew) and was dancing professionally by age 14, winning scholarships to the San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.[citation needed]
At age 20, Thompson was dancing with American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company, then known as ABT II.[citation needed] Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was the artistic director at the time, told her, "You're a lovely dancer, but you're too stocky." She said it was "my epiphany when I decided to stop dancing and not be a ballet dancer. It was a wonderful moment because I could've been banging my head against the wall for another 10 years." Thompson left ballet, but her older brother continued and went on to have a long career in the field.
Thompson changed her focus to acting and moved to New York at age 20.[citation needed] She appeared in a number of Burger King advertisements in the 1980s with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elisabeth Shue, her later co-star in Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III.
In 1982, Thompson played Cecily "Sissy" Loper in the interactive live-action video game MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone?. She made her movie debut in 1983 with Jaws 3-D. Thompson recalled the film as "the very first movie I ever got, but I lied and said I had done a couple of other movies, so when I showed up, I really knew absolutely nothing. Also, I had said that I knew how to water ski. And I did not. So I had, like, five days to learn really, really complicated water-skiing things, because I had to fit into the Sea World water-skiing show. I don't even know how to swim!" Thompson followed this with All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), and The Wild Life (1984).
Thompson's most famous role is that of Lorraine Baines McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, with the first film released in 1985. Her character is the mother of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), whom Marty meets when she is a 1950s teenager after he travels back in time. Marty has to avoid letting Lorraine fall in love with him instead of with his future father, George McFly (Crispin Glover), leading to awkward scenes in which Lorraine is attracted to Marty.
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