Lea Thompson: Selected Filmography

Lea Thompson - director, producer andfilm and television actress. She started her career with such projects as “Back to the Future”, “Picnic in Space”, “Howard-Duck”, “Miracles of a Kind”, etc. Now her filmography includes more than 80 films and TV series. The article will look at it in more detail.

Actress Lea Thompson: a biography

Leah was born in 1961 in Rochester,the American town of Minnesota, in the family of Clifford and Barbara Thompson. At the age of seven began to engage in ballroom dancing. She trained 4 hours a day and was very successful at that. By the age of 14, she managed to perform on many theatrical stages of her native state, and also won scholarships for the American Ballet Company and the San Francisco Ballet Company. And she would have gone further, but dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov advised her to change direction, calling her “too stocky for that.”

В 1987 году во время съемок мелодрамы «Чудеса kind of "she met with the director of the picture Howard Deutsch, whom she married after 2 years. Two daughters were born in marriage - Zoe and Madeline. And Zoe, looking at her mother, also decided to become an actress.

Carier start

So, when Leah’s dream of becoming a ballerina collapsed,she began to look for a new path for herself. For a start, she moved to New York, where she settled as a waitress, and later began to appear in commercials for the Burger King fast food chain and Twix chocolate bar. And then the beginning actress began to be invited in films. Lia Thompson got her first role in the thriller “Jaws 3D”, filmed in 1983 by American director Joe Alves.

В том же году актриса сыграла одного из главных characters of the sports drama Michael Chapman "All the right moves." A little later appeared in the action movie John Miliusa "Red Dawn" (1984). And in 1985, 1989 and 1990, Lea Thompson (Lea Thompson) took part in the filming of three parts of the sci-fi comedy by Robert Zemeckis “Back to the Future”, where Lorraine, Marty McFly's mother, played.

Thomas is unbeliever instead of wife

In Harry Weiner's adventure film "Picnic inCosmos "(1986), the actress played the role of Catherine Fairlee, who dreams of becoming the first female commander of a spacecraft. A member of the rock band and girlfriend Howard played in Willard Hike's fantastic comedy Howard the Duck (1986). The role of Amanda Jones - the most popular girl in the school, she went to Howard Deutsch's melodrama "Miracles of a Kind" (1987). And as Stacy - the main character, Lea Thompson appeared in the Genevieve Robert comedy, Just Sex (1989).

After 4 years, the actress won the lead role inEric Laneville's drama "Stolen Children". She starred in the western of Peter Werner "Instead of the Wife" (1994). From 1995 to 1999 she played the role of Caroline Duffy - an artist from Manhattan, in the comedy series of the NBC channel Caroline in New York. And in 2002 she starred in Chuck DeBas' comedy “The Fish Doesn't Blink.”

В комедии «Мечты о Калифорнии», снятой Линдой Voorce in 2007, the actress played a real estate agent Ginger. Debbie Smith - the victim of the perpetrator, played in the television drama of Stefan Pleschinski "Break in life" (2007). And in the image of Claire Miller - the mother of the main character, Lea Thompson (Lea Thompson) appeared in the comedy detective Mark Blutman "Thomas the Unbeliever" (2008).

Dragon Hunter Lover

One of the main roles the actress got in the thrillerScott Zila "Speed: the last line" (2008). She played the main character in George Ershbeimer's fantasy drama "Mrs. Klaus" (2008). She also played the role of Laura, the mother of twelve-year-old Arthur, in Andrew Loher’s fantasy film The Adventures of a Dragon Hunter (2010).

In 2011, the romantic comedy was filmed.Brian Trenchard-Smith "Holiday House", where Lea Thompson won the lead role. The filmography of the actress in the same year was supplemented by the drama Jim Hemphill "Trouble with the truth." A year later, she played the main character in the Leslie Zemeckis documentary film Siamese Twins (2012).

Together with Nicolas Cage actress starred inVick Armstrong's thriller “Left” (2014). One of the main characters played in the drama by Alex Ranarivelo “Dog lover” (2016). And in the period from 2011 to 2017, the actress played a permanent role of Catherine Cannish - housewife and biological mother Daphne, in the family drama of the ABC channel “They were confused in the hospital”.

New items

And now, with regard to future projects, inwhich is still Leah Thompson. Films with her participation will be released in 2017 already. These are comedies: “Literally in front of Aaron” and “The Year of the Impressive Man.” And the director of the last project is Leah Thompson herself. She also took part in the filming of the drama Claire Niederprewham “The Little Woman” (2017) and the comedy by Jan Samuels Sierra Burgess is a Loser (2018).