Lea Thompson

Thompson in February 2015

Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961 in Rochester , Minnesota ) is an American actress .

Life and accomplishments

Lea Thompson is the youngest of five children of singer and musician Barbara Thompson and her husband Cliff Thompson . At the age of 14 she began a career as a professional ballet dancer . Later she also studied ballet dance and trained for 3 to 4 hours a day. She has won scholarships to the American Ballet Theater , the San Francisco Ballet, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. She gave up her ballet career at the age of 20 and moved to New York in hopes of becoming an actress, where she made her first television appearance in a Burger King commercial in 1980.

Thompson made her cinema debut in 1983 in the film Jaws 3-D . After appearing alongside Tom Cruise in The Right Shot , she was one of Hollywood's high hopes as Brat Pack . Thompson's breakthrough came in the Back to the Future trilogy, in which she played the mother of Marty McFly ( Michael J. Fox ). For five years she played the title role in the sitcom Caroline in the City . In 2005 she took on the lead role in the multi-part feature film series alias Jane Doe about a former secret agent. In 1996 she took a little break in the film business and appeared in several Broadway performances .

Since 1989 she has been married to the film director Howard Deutch , whom she was shooting for the film Isn't she wonderful? had got to know. With him she has two daughters Madelyn and Zoey Deutch . Before that, she was engaged to actor Dennis Quaid ( Frequency , DOA ) for three years .

Filmography (selection)

Lea Thompson 2008

• 1982: MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone? (Short film)
• 1983: Great White Shark 3-D (Jaws 3-D)
• 1983: All the Right Moves (All the Right Moves)
• 1984: The Red Tide (Red Dawn)
• 1984: The Wild Life
• 1985: Back to the Future
• 1986: Space Camp
• 1986: Howard - the Duck (Howard the Duck)
• 1987: isn't it wonderful? (Some Kind of Wonderful)
• 1988: No more sex at all? (Casual sex?)
• 1988: Yellow Pages / Going Undercover
• 1988: The Wizard of Loneliness
• 1989: Operation Nightbreaker ( Nightbreaker , TV movie)
• 1989: Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from the Crypt , Season 1, Episode 4 TV series)
• 1989: Back to the Future Part II
• 1990: Montana (TV movie)
• 1990: Back to the Future Part III
• 1992: No Surrender - Cry for justice / There is sharp shooting in the hospital (Article 99)
• 1993: Mothers without scruples ( Stolen Babies , TV movie)
• 1993: Dennis (Dennis the Menace)
• 1993: The Beverly Hillbillies are on the loose! (The Beverly Hillbillies)
• 1994: A Woman for My Husband ( The Substitute Wife , TV movie)
• 1994: The Little Rascals (The Little Rascals)
• 1995: Caught in Love ( The Unspoken Truth , TV movie)
• 1995: Friends (TV series)
• 1996: In the Eye of the Storm ( The Right to Remain Silent , Movie made for TV)
• 1998: 4 for the Road (The Unknown Cyclist)
• 1998: A Will of Their Own (TV series)
• 1995–1999: Caroline in the City (TV series)
• 2002: Fish Don't Blink
• 2002–2003: For the People (TV series)
• 2003: Haunted Lighthouse (short film)
• 2003: A rascal named Santa Claus ( Stealing Christmas , TV movie)
• 2004: Ed - The Bowling Lawyer (TV series)
• 2004: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)
• 2005: Code name Jane Doe: My wife, the secret agent (TV movie)
• 2005: Code name Jane Doe: I see something you don't see (TV movie)
• 2005: Code name Jane Doe: When Lies Must Die (TV Movie)
• 2005: Come Away Home
• 2005: Code name Jane Doe: The Mistaken Woman (TV movie)
• 2006: Code name Jane Doe: The Mastermind (TV movie)
• 2006: Code name Jane Doe: Ice Cold Death (TV movie)
• 2006: 10 tricks
• 2007: California Dreaming (Out of Omaha)
• 2007: Code name Jane Doe: A Murderer with Two Alibis (TV Movie)
• 2007: A Life Interrupted (TV biography)
• 2007: Code name Jane Doe: Deadly Mind Control (Movie made for TV)
• 2007: Final Approach (TV movie)
• 2008: Senior Skip Day
• 2008: Spy School / Doubting Thomas: Lies ans Spies
• 2008: Balancing the Books
• 2008: Code name Jane Doe: The Counterfeit Original (TV movie)
• 2008: Exit Speed
• 2008: The Mrs. Clause (also: The Christmas Clause) (TV movie)
• 2011: Mayor Cupcake
• 2011: The Cabin (TV movie)
• 2011: J. Edgar
• 2011: Thin Ice
• since 2011: Switched at Birth (TV series)
• 2012: Love at the Christmas Table (TV movie)
• 2013: call me crazy! ( Call Me Crazy: A Five Film , Movie made for TV)
• 2013: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, episode 14x07)
• 2014: My Mother's Future Husband (TV movie)
• 2014: Left Behind
• 2016: Scorpion (TV series, episodes 9 + 10, 13 + 14x03)
• 2018: Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

Web links

Commons : Lea Thompson  - Collection of Images

• Lea Thompson at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lea Thompson at the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Lea Thompson in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry at filmreference.com
2. ^ ^{A b c} Jeannette Catsoulis: Movies: AboutLea Thompson. In: The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2012 .