Lea Katherine Thompson

Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota,[ one of five children of Clifford Thompson and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician. Thompson is the older sister of Coleen Goodrich (and Shannon Katona) and two younger brothers, Barry and Andrew. Her mother is Irish. Mikhail baryshnikov was then at the when the director of artistic. He told her "You are a beautiful dancer however your body is too big." That was her "epiphany", when she said it was the moment that caused me to give up dancing and to stop being the ballet dancer. It was an amazing moment because I was able to bang my head against the wall for another 10 years. "[She switched to acting. She moved to New York at the age of 20 and performed in numerous Burger King commercials in the 1980s alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar. Her co-star in Back to the Future Part II was Elisabeth Shue. and her first movie in 1983, with Jaws 3-D. She recalls the film as "the the first film I've ever seen, but I lied and said I'd seen a couple of other movies before, and so when I showed up, I really knew practically nothing. Additionally, I had claimed that I knew how to water ski. And I didn't. Then I was given, say five days of learning the most complicated water-skiing things, because I had to make it into the Sea World water-skiing show. I don't know how to swim!" This was followed by All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (84) and The Wild Life (84).