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