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Lea Thompson
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American actress
Film & TV
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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…
Known for
- SEGAL — Self2025
- BRATS — Self2024
- The Chicken Sisters — Nancy Hillier2024
- The Spencer Sisters — Victoria Spencer2023
- Marty & Doc: The Inside Story of a Phenomenon — Self2022
- Unplugging — Perkins2022
- Ten Tricks — Grace2022
- The Disappearance of Cari Farver — Nancy Farver2022
- Next Stop, Christmas — Evelyn2021
- Mark, Mary + Some Other People — Aunty Carol2021
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Key facts
- Born
- Lea Katherine Thompson , ( 1961-05-31 ) May 31, 1961 (age 65) , Rochester, Minnesota , U.S.
- Other name
- Lea Deutch
- Alma mater
- American Ballet Theatre
- Occupations
- Actress director singer dancer
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Spouse
- Howard Deutch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 )
- Children
- Madelyn Deutch Zoey Deutch
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lea
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rochester
- Spouse
- Howard Deutch
- Child
- Madelyn Deutch
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Back to the Future
- Image
- Lea Thompson February 2015 (cropped).jpg
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- birth name
- Lea Katherine Thompson
- Commons category
- Lea Thompson
- date of birth
- 1961-05-31
- name in native language
- Lea Thompson
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- social media followers
- 219108
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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