Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress and director being famous for her 1990s NBC comedy Caroline in the city and for interpreting Marty McFly’s mother in the Back to the Future trilogy.
She was born on Rochester, Minnesota, studying ballet as a girl and practicing 3-4 hours every day. Thomson won scholarships to various ballet schools, the American Ballet Theatre, the San Francisco Ballet and the Pennsylvania Ballet, dancing in more than 45 ballets with the American Ballet Theatre. She gave up dancing and followed an acting career, moving to New York when she was 20 performing is several Burger King advertisements in the 1980s.
Thompson’s first important roles were in Jaws 3-D and All the Right Moves in 1983, followed by Red Dawn (1984) and The Wild Life (1984). She is mostly famous for the role of Lorraine Baines McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
In 1986 she appeared in SpaceCamp and Howard the Duck. Later on, in 1989 Thompson had a major role in the movie Nightbreaker, being nominated for a CableACE Award. She also appeared in the early 1990s, in Dennis the Menace (1993), The Beverly Hilbillies (1994), The Little Rascals (1994) as well as in numerous TV movies.
In 1996, Thompson won a People’s Choice Award as “Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series.
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