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Lea Thompson actress
Born: 5/31/1961
Birthplace: Rochester, Minnesota
A professional dancer who trained with the American Ballet Theatre and other prestigious companies, Thompson became a familiar face through Burger King ads of the 1980s. She landed her first film role in All the Right Moves (1983), as Tom Cruise's girlfriend. Thompson was memorable as Michael J. Fox's mom (made up to look older) in Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels, and has also appeared in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) and Dennis the Menace (1993). She starred in her own sitcom, Caroline in the City (1995–1999) and in the Lifetime network drama For the People (2002–2003). She plays a secret agent/housewife in the Hallmark Channel's Jane Doe mystery movies series (2005–).
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Lea Thompson from Infoplease:
- Come Away Home - Starring Paul Dooley, Jordan-Claire Green, Lea Thompson, Sonya Eddy, Martin Mull
- Back to the Future - Starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Claudia Wells
- Howard the Duck - Starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien
- Red Dawn (1984) - Starring Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton
- Selected Biographies: T - Selected biographies of well-known people and fictional characters
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