Who is Lea Thompson?

Lea Thompson is an American award-winning actress, dancer, television director, and producer best known for her work as Lorraine Baines in the Back of the Future trilogy. Lea Thompson has appeared in ‘Howard the Duck’ Jaws 3-D’ and ‘Red Dawn’. She appeared in ‘All the Right Moves’s with Tom Cruise.

Who are the parents of Lea Thompson?

Lea was born in Rochester, Minnesota, the USA. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is Irish.

Her birth name is Lea Kathrine Thompson. She was born to parents Barbara Anne (Barry) and Clifford Elwin ‘Cliff’ Thompson. She was born as the youngest of five children of Irish descent.

They all lived in the Starlight Motel sharing the same room with all her siblings. Things began to change in the family when her father got a job and moved the family to Minneapolis. Things went bad again in the family when her parents decided to divorce and they had to live with her alcoholic mother.