Lea Thompson
Lea Thompson
A small, delicate-looking, perky actress, Thompson studied dance as a child, and was dancing professionally by age 14; she won scholarships to the Pennsylvania Ballet, American Ballet, and the San Francisco Ballet. However, she felt she was too short to become a prima ballerina and gave up dance in favor of acting. After moving to New York she appeared in some 20 Burger King TV commercials, then debuted onscreen in Jaws 3-D (1983). Shortly thereafter she got her first important role, opposite Tom Cruise in the hit All the Right Moves (1983). She is best known for her multiple roles in the three Back to the Future movies; aside from those highly successful movies, she has not gone on to appear in any hit productions. She also appeared in the TV movies Nightbreaker (1989), Montana (1990), and the PBS playhouse co-production The Wizard of Loneliness (1988). ~ All Movie Guide
Filmography of Lea Thompson:
- Spacecamp with Kate Capshaw , Kelly Preston , Tom Skerritt , Tate Donovan , Terry O'Quinn
- Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze , Ron O'Neal , William Smith , Powers Boothe , Ben Johnson , Charlie Sheen , Jennifer Grey , Harry Dean Stanton , Pepe Serna , Lane Smith , David Keith
- Television: The First 50 Years with Tony Randall , Tom Hanks , Rod Steiger , Carol Burnett , David Duchovny , Robert Stack , Jerry Stiller , Tom Selleck , Hugh O'Brian , Dick VanPatten , Alan Young , Dale Evans , Tom Arnold , Charlton Heston , David Hasselhoff , Peter Graves , George Burns , Robert Fuller , Shecky Greene , James Arness , Anne Francis , Henry Winkler , Ron Howard , Robert Vaughn , Norman Fell , Carroll O'Connor , Larry Hagman , Larry Storch , Ernest Borgnine , Adrienne Barbeau , Ed Asner , Carl Reiner , Ted Knight , Angie Dickinson , Gale Storm , Dennis Weaver , Steve Allen
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