Lea Katherine Thompson
Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota,[ one of five children born to Clifford Thompson and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician. She is the older sister of Coleen Goodrich (and Shannon Katona) and two brothers younger than her, Barry and Andrew. Her mother is from Ireland. Mikhail Baryshnikov (the artistic director at the time) advised her she was an excellent dancer but was too tall. In her words, that was "my moment of realization when I made the decision to stop dancing and not become a ballet dancer. It was an extremely memorable moment. If it wasn't for that, I would have been hitting my head on a wall for another 10plus years. "[She changed to acting. She relocated to New York at the age of 20 and performed in a variety of Burger King commercials in the 1980s, along with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Her co-star in Back to the Future Part II was Elisabeth Shue. Jaws 3D was her film debut in 1983. I claimed that I knew how to water ski. It wasn't the case. I had to learn water-skiing techniques that were extremely difficult to master in just five days, because I needed to do the Sea World water skiing show. I don't know how to swim!" The album was followed by All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (84), and The Wild Life (84).


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