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. Thompson is the
sister of Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona and two brothers, Andrew and
Barry. Her mother is from Ireland. Mikhail Baryshnikov (the artistic director
at the time) said to her she was an excellent dancer but too stocky. She
described the incident as "my epiphany" which led her to give up
dancing and to become a ballet dancer. That was a great moment. I could have
smashed my head on the wall for the next ten years. "She changed her
concentration on acting.Moving to New York at age 20 and appearing 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 made her home-media screen debut
in 1982 as Cecily "Sissy" Loper in the live-action, interactive video
game MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone? Jaws 3-D was her feature 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 even have
the ability to swim!" The song was followed with All the Right Moves
(1983), Red Dawn(84), as well as The Wild Life (1984).
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