Leah Thompson: biography, filmography, career and personal life

In this article, let's talk about a wonderful actress and director from the United States, Leah Thompson. Discuss her career, biography and personal life, in part we will analyze the filmography of the actress.

Biography

Leah Thompson was born in a town in the north of the US Rochester, Minnesota, on May 31, 1961 in the family of the singer Barbara and her husband Cliff.

Since the childhood the girl was engaged in ballet, and inher 14 years old and did become a professional dancer, for which she began to receive a scholarship from the American Ballet Theater. Leah played in four dozen productions on the scenes of the American Theater, and the girl performed in Pennsylvania and Minnesota.

When Thompson turns 20, she decides to leavefrom the ballet and plans to become an actress. To fulfill her dream, Leah Thompson goes to New York, where she starts filming commercials for the company Burger King and accepts several offers from various musical groups, appears in the clips.

The beginning of an acting career

For the first time on the screen Thompson appeared in 1983 withthe role of Lisa Litska in the film "Only the right moves," in the same year, the starring actress starred in the horror film "Jaws 3", where she played the role of Kelly Ann Bukowski.

The brightest role at the very beginning of her acting career the girl performed in film trilogy "Back to the Future", played Lorraine Baines.

Over the next ten years, Leah Thompsonperformed about ten roles in various films and serials. In 1994, the actress appeared in the television movie "The Spare Wife", in which Emu Hightower played.

In 1995, Leah received a permanent and main role in the series "Carolina in New York", played Caroline Duffy. The series was broadcast on the American television channel NBC for five years. After this project, Leah Thompson, whose photo was posted on the cover of the film, began to appear on the screen more often.

Filmography

During her career, Leah performed about three dozen roles, the full filmography is located below (in brackets the year of the release is shown):

• "Only the right moves" - a girl Lisa Litski (1983).
• "Jaws 3" - played by Kelly Ann Bukowski (1983).
• "Red Dawn" - the character of Eric (1984).
• "Back to the Future" - Lorraine Baines (1985).
• "Howard Duck" - the role of Beverly (1986).
• "Something wonderful" - girl Amanda Jones (1987).
• "Yellow Pages" - played Marigold de la Huntu (1988).
• "Just sex?" - Character of Stacy (1988).
• "Flash in the Dark" - sang Sayly Matthews (1989).
• "Back to the Future 2" and "Back to the Future 3" - girl Lorrain (1989-1990).
• "Article 99" - Dr. Robin (1992).
• "Dennis the tormentor" - Miss Alice (1993).
• "The Barefoot Hills" - played the role of Laura Jackson (1993).
• TV movie "The Spare Wife" - played Emu Hightower (1994).
• "Shalopei" - Mrs. Roberts (1994)).
• "Caroline in New York" - actress Igala starring Carolina Duffy (1995-2000).
• "The unspoken truth" - appeared in front of the viewer in the role Brianna Hawkins (1995).
• "The right not to answer questions" - girl Christine (1996).
• TV series "Jane Doe" - played a double role for Dow Jane/ Cathy Davis (2005-2008).
• "Quick exit" - the role of Muddy McMinn (2008).
• "Thomas the unbeliever" - played by Claire Miller (2008).
  
• series "They were confused in the hospital" - actress sang Katherine Kennish for four seasons (2011-2015).
• "Left" - the character of Irene Steele (2014).

In addition to playing the roles, Leah Thompson, whose filmography is quite voluminous, acted as the director of two feature films from the company Hallmark - "Jane Doe."

Personal life

In the mid-1980s, the actress met with American actor Dennis Quaid, then the couple broke up.

During the filming of the film "Something wonderful",which took place in 1987, Thompson met with director Howard Deutsch. Two years later the couple got married, the couple had two daughters married: Meidelin (born in 1990) and Zoe (born in 1994). The youngest daughter of the actress went in the footsteps of her mother and became an actress.

To date, Leah Thompson has celebrated herfifty-sixth birthday. It's hard to guess if she will still be in the movie, but it's safe to say that this person is truly talented.</ span </ p>