Lea Thompson
Acting
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.
As actor 133
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Family Guy
1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
American Dad!
2005
Hollywood Squares
1998
Friends
1994
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Dancing with the Stars
2005
The Goldbergs
2013
INVINCIBLE
2021
Scorpion
2014
25 Words or Less
2018
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
American Playhouse
1982
Switched at Birth
2011
Star Trek: Picard
2020
Back to the Future
1985
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Intimate Portrait
1993
Caroline in the City
1995
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
2013
Greek
2007
Back to the Future Part II
1989
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014
Stars in the House
2020
Back to the Future Part III
1990
Ed
2000
The Ready Room
2019
Dennis the Menace
1993
Left Behind
2014
The Muppets
2015
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
The Little Rascals
1994
Jaws 3-D
1983
Red Dawn
1984
Head Case
2007
Howard the Duck
1986
The Chicken Sisters
2024
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
J. Edgar
2011
Reunited Apart
2020
A to Z
2014
For the People
2002
All the Right Moves
1983
Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
The Spencer Sisters
2023
Thin Ice
2012
Dinner in America
2020
Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles
2018
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018
The Wild Life
1984
Casual Sex?
1988
Senior Skip Day
2008
SpaceCamp
1986
Literally, Right Before Aaron
2017
Back in Time
2015
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Celebrity Duets
2006
Unplugging
2022
Article 99
1992
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
A Will of their Own
1998
BRATS
2024
A Life Interrupted
2007
Exit Speed
2008
Going Undercover
1988
Stealing Christmas
2003
Nightbreaker
1989
Next Stop, Christmas
2021
Mark, Mary + Some Other People
2021
Little Women
2018
Spy School
2008
The Dog Lover
2016
Milius
2013
California Dreaming
2007
Love at the Christmas Table
2012
Who We Are Now
2018
Splinterheads
2009
Jane Doe: Vanishing Act
2005
The Substitute Wife
1994
The Right to Remain Silent
1996
Final Approach
2008
Bound by Flesh
2012
Ping Pong Summer
2014
Queen
Tales from the Future
2010
Montana
1990
Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
2006
The Making of Back to the Future
1986
The Year of Spectacular Men
2018
Ten Tricks
2022
Fatal Secrets
2009
Stolen Babies
1993
The Unknown Cyclist
1998
Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer
2010
Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
2008
The Disappearance of Cari Farver
2022
Marty & Doc: The Inside Story of a Phenomenon
2022
Mayor Cupcake
2011
What If
The Trouble with the Truth
2012
My Mother's Future Husband
2014
Come Away Home
2005
Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
2005
Cool Cat's Crazy Dream
2019
Looking Back at the Future
2006
Haunted Lighthouse 4-D
2003
Looking Back to the Future
2009
Fish Don't Blink
2002
The Unspoken Truth
1995
The Wizard of Loneliness
1988
Over the Hill
2018
Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb
Rock Slyde
2010
Keith Lemon's Back t'Future Tribute
2015
You Are Here
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
2007
The Christmas Clause
2008
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
2007
Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
2006
The Cabin
2011
SEGAL
2025
The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
1983
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
2005
A Pretty Good Movie
Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
2005
Game of Your Life
2011
Stars Are Already Dead
2016
John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
2012
The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful
2006
On the crew 20
Young Sheldon
2017
The Goldbergs
2013
Will Trent
2023
Mom
2013
Switched at Birth
2011
Star Trek: Picard
2020
Resident Alien
2021
American Housewife
2016
DC's Stargirl
2020
Anna Pigeon
2026
Schooled
2019
The Chicken Sisters
2024
My Best Friend's Girl
2008
Katy Keene
2020
Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
2006
The Year of Spectacular Men
2018
Fatal Secrets
2009
Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
2008
Looking Back to the Future
2009
Manville