Lea Thompson

Lea Thompson (64)

1961-05-31 | 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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lea Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

On Movies

  • The Disappearance of Cari Farver
  • Ten Tricks
  • Unplugging
  • Next Stop, Christmas
  • Mark, Mary + Some Other People
  • Dinner in America
  • Cool Cat's Crazy Dream
  • Little Women
  • Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
  • The Year of Spectacular Men
  • Who We Are Now
  • Literally, Right Before Aaron
  • The Dog Lover
  • Stars Are Already Dead
  • Left Behind
  • Ping Pong Summer
  • My Mother's Future Husband
  • Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
  • Love at the Christmas Table
  • The Trouble with the Truth
  • Thin Ice
  • Game of Your Life
  • J. Edgar
  • The Cabin
  • Mayor Cupcake
  • Rock Slyde
  • Splinterheads
  • Fatal Secrets
  • The Christmas Clause
  • Exit Speed
  • Final Approach
  • Senior Skip Day
  • Spy School
  • Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
  • Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
  • A Life Interrupted
  • Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
  • California Dreaming
  • Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
  • Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
  • The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful
  • Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
  • Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
  • Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
  • Jane Doe: Vanishing Act
  • Come Away Home
  • Stealing Christmas
  • Haunted Lighthouse 4-D
  • The Unknown Cyclist
  • The Right to Remain Silent
  • The Unspoken Truth
  • The Little Rascals
  • The Substitute Wife
  • The Beverly Hillbillies
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Stolen Babies
  • Article 99
  • Back to the Future Part III
  • Montana
  • Back to the Future Part II
  • Nightbreaker
  • The Wizard of Loneliness
  • Going Undercover
  • Casual Sex?
  • Some Kind of Wonderful
  • Howard the Duck
  • SpaceCamp
  • Back to the Future
  • The Wild Life
  • Red Dawn
  • All the Right Moves
  • Jaws 3-D

Movies as Director

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