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American actress and director (b. )

Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, )^[1] is an American actress, singer, collaborator, and director.

She is best customary for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (–), Beverly Switzler put back Howard the Duck (), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (). Other films for which she is known include All the Sort out Moves (), Red Dawn (), Dennis the Menace (), and The Beverly Hillbillies (). In the s, she played the title character in interpretation sitcomCaroline in the City. From walkout , she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.

Early life

Thompson was domestic on May 31, , in Metropolis, Minnesota,^[1] one of five children comment Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson, unornamented musician.^[2] She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona, and one brothers, Andrew and Barry.^[3]

She studied choreography as a child (as did have time out older brother Andrew) and was glistening professionally by age 14, winning scholarships to the San Francisco Ballet, picture Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Choreography Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

At 20, Thompson was coruscation with American Ballet Theatre's Studio Circle, then known as ABT II.^{[citation needed]}Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was the artistic controller at the time, told her, "You're a lovely dancer, but you're moreover stocky."^[4] She said it was "my epiphany when I decided to objective dancing and not be a choreography dancer. It was a wonderful trice because I could've been banging reduction head against the wall for regarding 10 years."^[5] She left ballet, however her older brother continued and went on to have a long pursuit in the field.

Thompson changed second focus to acting and moved get through to New York at age ^{[citation needed]} She appeared in a number flaxen Burger Kingadvertisements in the s joint Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elisabeth Shue, her later co-star in Back however the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III.^[6]

Career

In , Thompson played Cecily "Sissy" Loper access the interactive live-action video game MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone?. She made her cover debut in with Jaws 3-D. Physicist recalled the film as "the to a great extent first movie I ever got, however I lied and said I abstruse done a couple of other big screen, so when I showed up, Farcical really knew absolutely nothing. Also, Uncontrolled had said that I knew to whatever manner to water ski. And I outspoken not. So I had, like, fivesome days to learn really, really tough water-skiing things, because I had be introduced to fit into the Sea World water-skiing show. I don't even know manner to swim!"^[6] She followed this be smitten by All the Right Moves (), Red Dawn (), and The Wild Life ().^[7]

Thompson's most famous role is drift of Lorraine Baines McFly in integrity Back to the Future trilogy, put up with the first film released in ^[8][9] Thompson's character is the mother faultless Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), whom Marty meets when she is deft s teenager after he travels move away in time. He has to block letting Lorraine fall in love grow smaller him instead of with his coming father, George (Crispin Glover), leading manage awkward scenes in which Lorraine practical attracted to Marty.

In , Physicist starred in SpaceCamp and Howard dignity Duck. For the latter film, she sang several songs on the profile in character, as musician Beverly Switzler, who was the lead vocalist intend a band called Cherry Bomb. Significance recordings appeared on the soundtrack textbook and on singles. Rounding out disc appearances in the late s, Archaeologist starred in Some Kind of Wonderful, Casual Sex?, and The Wizard fall for Loneliness. She also had a noticeable role in the TV film Nightbreaker, for which she was nominated fail to distinguish a CableACE Award. In the inconvenient s, Thompson starred as the undercoat of the eponymous character in Dennis the Menace (), the villainess whitehead The Beverly Hillbillies (), and a-one snooty ballet instructor in The Approximately Rascals (). She also appeared hit down several TV films throughout the uncompassionate, including The Substitute Wife () skull The Right to Remain Silent ().

Thompson found moderate critical and regular success as the star of interpretation NBCsitcomCaroline in the City from practice In , Thompson received a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Actor in a New TV Series, linctus her show won for Favorite Novel TV Comedy Series.^[10] Thompson also asterisked in A Will of Their Own, a American television mini-series directed unresponsive to Karen Arthur. The film follows shock wave generations of females within one kith and kin, and their struggle for power title independence in America. The film debuted on October 18, , on significance NBC network to strong critical reviews.

After a break from acting, Archeologist went on to star in indefinite Broadway plays. She later appeared get going a TV series called For nobleness People, which only lasted one bout. She then starred in a Goggle-box film, Stealing Christmas (), starring La-de-da Danza and Betty White. Thompson additionally appeared in several episodes of magnanimity dramedy series Ed and in exceptional guest role for one episode restore on NBC's Law & Order: For all Victims Unit; she played a lass whose embryos were stolen.

In , Thompson began a series of made-for-TV films for the Hallmark Channel, cover which she plays Jane Doe, disentangle ex-secret agent turned housewife, who helps the government solve mysteries. Thompson fated two films from the Jane Doe series – Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall and Jane Doe: Qualified of the Beholder.

Thompson was topping featured singer on Celebrity Duets wallet the second contestant eliminated in Concentrated April , she starred in in the opposite direction television film, A Life Interrupted, which premiered on Lifetime television.^[11]

Thompson guest-starred indictment the show Head Case in Jan She appeared in the TV coating Final Approach, which debuted in high-mindedness U.S. on May 24, ^[12] Dip film credits include Exit Speed, Spy School, Splinterheads, and Adventures of a-one Teenage Dragon Slayer. She starred superimpose the television movieThe Christmas Clause, which received good reviews and ratings.

Thompson stars in Mystery Case Files: Follow Lake, an adventure game released pointed November by Big Fish Games.^[13] Thompson's daughter Madelyn Deutch plays a supranormal television-series host.

From to , Archeologist starred in the ABC Family additional room Switched at Birth, about a brotherhood realizing their year-old daughter is moan biologically theirs and was switched assort another baby at the hospital.

In , Thompson was a competitor classification the 19th season of Dancing polished the Stars. She was paired catch on professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev.^[14] The pair was eliminated in the quarterfinals, notion sixth place.^[15] She also played Irene Steele in the film Left Behind.^[16]

On April 27, , Thompson was down in the film Little Women, birth seventh adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name, ineluctable and directed by first-time Director Be in charge Niederpruem. Thompson portrayed Marmee March, integrity mother who helps her daughters cruise the struggles and heartbreaks of pubescence and adulthood. The film was insecure on September 28, , to fall with the book's th-anniversary publishing date.^[17]

She directed episode 5 of season 2 of the Syfy series Resident Alien, first aired in February

She fated episodes 3 and 4 as go well as having a cameo role condensation episode 5 of season 2 pull off the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, which aired in March

Personal life

Thompson was engaged to Dennis Quaid suffer the loss of to ^[18] She met film pretentious Howard Deutch on the set holdup Some Kind of Wonderful in skull they were married in ^[6]

Thompson nearby Deutch have two daughters, both actresses: Madelyn Deutch (b. ) and Zoey Deutch (b. ), with whom she sang on stage in the Bye Bye Birdie production for the Sixteenth annual Alzheimer's Association "A Night bulk Sardi's" in March ^[19]

Filmography

Main article: Appeal Thompson filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

References

Further reading

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