Lea Katherine Thompson


Thompson was born May 31 of 1961 in Rochester (Minnesota), [ the youngest of five children of Clifford Barry Thompson and musician. She has two older sisters, Coleen Goodrich (and Shannon Katona) and two brothers younger than her, Barry and Andrew. Her mother is of Irish descent.She began ballet training in her early years and started dancing professionally by the age of 14, winning scholarships to San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.When she turned 20 old and dancing professionally with American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company (then known as ABT II), the time was right to make a decision on whether she would move to the company's main stage. Mikhail Baryshnikov (the director of the artistic department at the time) advised her that she was a fantastic dancer but was too tall. In her words, that was "my epiphany " when I decided to give up dancing and become a ballet dancer. It was a wonderful moment. I could have smashed my head on the wall for ten years. "[She switched to acting. She moved to New York at the age of 20 and appeared 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. In addition, I'd said that I could water ski. It wasn't the case. Because I was required by law to take part in the Sea World water-skiing program, I had just five days to learn water-skiing basics. I don't know how to could swim!" This was followed up with All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn(84), as well as The Wild Life (1984).






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