Lea Thompson - director, producer andfilm and television actress. She started her career with such projects as “Back to the Future”, “Picnic in Space”, “Howard-Duck”, “Miracles of a Kind”, etc. Now her filmography includes more than 80 films and TV series. The article will look at it in more detail.
Лиа родилась в 1961 году в Рочестере, the American town of Minnesota, in the family of Clifford and Barbara Thompson. At the age of seven began to engage in ballroom dancing. She practiced 4 hours a day and was very successful at it. By the age of 14, she managed to perform on many theatrical stages of her home state, and also won scholarships for the American Ballet Company and the San Francisco Ballet Company. And she would have gone further, but dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov advised her to change direction, calling her “too stocky for that.”
So, when Leah’s dream of becoming a ballerina collapsed,she began to look for a new path for herself. To start, she moved to New York, where she settled down as a waitress, and later began to appear in commercials for the Burger King fast food chain and Twix chocolate bar. And then the beginning actress began to be invited in films. Lia Thompson got her first role in the thriller “Jaws 3D”, filmed in 1983 by American director Joe Alves.
In Harry Weiner's adventure film “Picnic inCosmos "(1986), the actress played the role of Catherine Fairlee, who dreams of becoming the first woman commander of a spacecraft. A member of the rock band and girlfriend Howard played in Willard Hike's fantastic comedy Howard the Duck (1986). The role of Amanda Jones - the most popular girl in school, she went to Howard Deutsch's melodrama “Miracles of a Kind” (1987). And as Stacey - the main character, Lea Thompson appeared in the comedy by Robert Genevieve “Just Sex” (1989).
Через 4 года актриса получила главную роль в Eric Laneville's drama "Stolen Children". She starred in the western of Peter Werner "Instead of the Wife" (1994). From 1995 to 1999 she played the role of Caroline Duffy - an artist from Manhattan, in the comedy series of the NBC channel Caroline in New York. And in 2002 she starred in Chuck DeBas's comedy “The Fish Doesn't Blink.”
One of the main roles the actress received in the thrillerScott Zila "Speed: the last line" (2008). She played the main character in George Ershbeimer's fantasy drama “Mrs. Klaus” (2008). And played the role of Laura, the mother of twelve-year-old Arthur, in Andrew Loher’s fantasy film The Adventures of a Dragon Hunter (2010).
В 2011 году была снята романтическая комедия Brian Trenchard-Smith “Holiday Home”, where Lea Thompson won the lead role. The filmography of the actress in the same year was supplemented by Jim Hemphill's drama "Trouble with the Truth." A year later, she played the main character in the Leslie Zemeckis documentary film Siamese Twins (2012).
And now, with regard to future projects, inwhich still will be Leah Thompson. Films with her participation will be released in 2017 already. We are talking about comedies: “Literally in front of Aaron” and “The Year of the Impressive Man.” And the director of the last project is Leah Thompson herself. She also participated in the filming of the drama Claire Niederprewham “The Little Woman” (2017) and the comedy by Jan Samuels Sierra Burgess is a Loser (2018).
