Lea Thompson
Lea Thompson
Lea Kathleen Thompsonis an American actress, television director, and television producer. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy and as the title character in the 1990s NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3-D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Since 2011, she has co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth31 May 1961
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.
As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.
Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.
Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.
I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.
I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing.
I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.
My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.
I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.
I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.
'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.
'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.
'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.