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 sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona and two brothers Andrew and Barry. Her mother is of Irish descent.She studied ballet as a girl and danced professionally at the age of 14 and was awarded scholarships to San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.When she was 20 years older and was dancing professionally with the American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company (then known as ABT II), the time was right to make a decision on whether she wanted to join the company's main stage. Mikhail baryshnikov was then at the when the director of artistic. He told her "You are an amazing dancer but your body isn't a good fit." According to her, it was "my epiphany when I decided to give up dancing and become a ballet dancer. It was an amazing moment because I was able to bang my head against the wall for 10 years. "She changed her goal on acting.Moving to New York at age 20, she performed in a number 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 began her home-media screen debut in 1982, playing Cecily "Sissy" Loper in the live-action game MysteryDisc Murder, Anyone? Jaws 3-D was her feature film debut in 1983. I also claimed that I was able to waterski. I didn't. I had to master water-skiing techniques that were extremely challenging in five days since I had to be able to perform the Sea World water skiing show. I don't have the ability to swim!" The album was followed by All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (84), and The Wild Life (84).