Lea Thompson

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lea Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Back to the Future

as Lorraine Baines

Back to the Future Part II

as Lorraine McFly

Back to the Future Part III

as Maggie McFly / Lorraine McFly

Friends

as Caroline Duffy (uncredited)

INVINCIBLE

as Carol (voice)

Family Guy

as Teenaged Girl in Diner (voice)

Family Guy

as Lorraine McFly (voice)

Scorpion

as Veronica Dineen

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Michelle Osborne

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

as Mrs. Burgess