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Lea Thompson
American actress
Born 31 May 1961 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Born as Lea Katherine Thompson - American actress, television director and television producer. Best known for Back to the Future trilogy, NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films she is known for include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3-D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. She studied ballet as a girl and practiced three to four hours every day. She was dancing professionally by the age of 14, but later she decided to give up dancing in favor of an acting career. She has been married to film director Howard Deutch since 1989. She has starred in more than 30 films, 25 television movies, 4 television series, more than 20 ballets, and starred on Broadway in "Cabaret". Lea is currently in pre-production on "The Year of Spectacular Men", a film written by her daughter Madelyn Deutch, and is writing her first book of essays.
1985 - 0 | Back to the Future | as Lorraine Baines |
Marty McFly is an average teenager. Except he knows an average mad scientist. Oh yeah, and he almost dated his own mother. It’s a long story that involves cool looking time machine and his father being a nerdy boy in school... | ||
1994 - 2003 | Friends | as Caroline Duffy |
School time friends begin to live together in two flats in New York City, but their emotions from the past begin to affect their present love and career choices. | ||
1995 - 1998 | Caroline in the City | as Caroline Duffy |
Successful New York cartoonist Caroline Duffy, author of comic strip called Caroline in the City, hires an uptight artists Richard as the colorist. With her midwest approach she just can’t help trying to change his cynical mind. | ||
2000 - 2003 | Ed | as Liz Stevens |
Ed Stevens, a lawyer in New York City firm, after finding his wife in bed with mailman decides to change his lie. He moves back to his hometown - Stuckeyville - and opens his own legal practice in bowling alley that he bought. | ||