Lea Thompson

Acting · Born 1961-05-31 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Biography

Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She 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, she played the title character 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.

Filmography

• Back to the Future as Lorraine Baines
• Back to the Future Part II as Lorraine
• Back to the Future Part III as Maggie McFly / Lorraine McFly
• Dinner in America as Betty
• Red Dawn as Erica
• Howard the Duck as Beverly Switzler
• Next Stop, Christmas as Evelyn
• The Little Rascals as Ms. Roberts
• Senior Skip Day as Cathleen Harris
• Spy School as Claire Miller

TV

• Friends as Caroline Duffy (uncredited)
• Tales from the Crypt as Sylvia Vane
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Michelle Osborne
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Jennifer Rhodes
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
• Scorpion as Veronica Dineen
• Invincible as Carol (voice)
• The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
• Greek as April
• Caroline in the City as Caroline Duffy