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Lea Katherine Thompson was born May 31, 1961 in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the youngest of five children. Her parents are Barbara and Cliff Thompson. Since all her siblings were much older than her, Lea says it seemed like she had more than two parents. The family lived in the Starlight motel, all the kids sharing a room. Things began to look up for the family when Lea's father got a job in Minneapolis, where the family moved.
Lea's parents divorced when she was six, and her mother decided to maintain the family. This wasn't the easiest job, considering her mother was alcohol-addicted at the time. When she found the strength to quit drinking, she took a job playing the piano and singing in a bar to support Lea and her siblings. When Lea was seven, her mother remarried. Ever since Lea was little, she loved to dance -- ballet to be exact. She would practice three to four hours every day. Her first role was as a mouse in "The Nutcracker". After Lea turned fou
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Zoey Deutch
American actress and producer (born 1994)
Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch[citation needed] (DOYTCH; born November 10, 1994)[1] is an American actress and producer. The younger daughter of director Howard Deutch and actress-director Lea Thompson, Deutch made her acting debut in television during the early 2010s, with roles on Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck (2010–2011) and CW's Ringer (2011–2012).
Making her rulle debut in 2012, Deutch gained wider attention and acclaim with her roles in a number of independent films spanning both comedy and drama, such as Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Before I Fall, Flower, Rebel in the Rye (all three 2017), Set It Up (2018), Zombieland: Double Tap, and Buffaloed (both 2019). She went on to star in the comedy streaming projectsThe Politician (2019–2020), Not Okay, and Something from Tiffany's (both 2022). Her supporting role in the historical thriller film The Outfit (2
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Lea Thompson
American actress and director (born 1961)
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961)[1] 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 Caroline Duffy in the sitcomCaroline in the City. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.
Early life
[edit]Lea Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota,[1] one of five children of Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician.[2] She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona, an