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. She has two older sisters,
Coleen Goodrich (and Shannon Katona) and two younger brothers, Barry and
Andrew. Her mother hails from Ireland. [ Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was the
artistic director at the time, told herthat "You're an amazing dancer, but
you're too stocky." In her words, that was "my epiphany when I
decided to quit dancing and not to be a ballet dancer. It was a truly memorable
moment. If it wasn't for that, I'd have been smashing my head into a wall for
another 10and a half years. "The actress turned her focus on acting.Moving
to New York at age 20, she performed in a variety of Burger King advertisements
in the 1980s, along with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elisabeth Shue who would
later be her co-star in Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part
III.CareerThompson was a home-media screen star who made her debut in 1982,
playing Cecily "Sissy" Loper in the live-action game MysteryDisc:
Murder, Anyone? Jaws 3D, her feature film debut in 1983. I claimed I knew how
water ski. But I didn't. Then I was given, say five days of learning really,
really complicated water-skiing techniques, as I was expected to participate in
the Sea World water-skiing show. I don't even know what swimming is!" The
singer followed this up with All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984) and
The Wild Life (1984).
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