Lea Thompson profile
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Lea Thompson

31st May 1961 Rochester, Minnesota, USA Acting

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.

86 Movies 40 TV Shows 135 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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SEGAL 12th October 2025 as Self
Thin Ice poster
Thin Ice 17th February 2012 as Jo Ann Prohaska
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Montana 9th February 1990 as Peg Guthrie
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Jaws 3-D 22nd July 1983 as Kelly Ann Bukowski
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A to Z 2nd October 2014 as Lea Thompson
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Scorpion 22nd September 2014 as Veronica Dineen
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Greek 9th July 2007 as April
Ed poster
Ed 8th October 2000 as Liz Stevens
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Family Guy 31st January 1999 as Teenaged Girl in Diner (voice)
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Family Guy 31st January 1999 as Lorraine McFly (voice)
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Friends 22nd September 1994 as Caroline Duffy (uncredited)