Lea Thompson
Lea Thompson
Lea Kathleen Thompsonis an American actress, television director, and television producer. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy and as the title character in the 1990s NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3-D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Since 2011, she has co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth31 May 1961
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.
Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.
Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.
As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.
You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.
My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'
If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
I don't even know how to swim!
In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.