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Lea Thompson

American actress

Born
31 May 1961
in RochesterMinnesotaUnited States

Born as Lea Katherine Thompson - American actress, television director and television producer. Best known for Back to the Future trilogy, NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films she is known for include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3-D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. She studied ballet as a girl and practiced three to four hours every day. She was dancing professionally by the age of 14, but later she decided to give up dancing in favor of an acting career. She has been married to film director Howard Deutch since 1989. She has starred in more than 30 films, 25 television movies, 4 television series, more than 20 ballets, and starred on Broadway in "Cabaret". Lea is currently in pre-production on "The Year of Spectacular Men", a film written by her daughter Madelyn Deutch, and is writing her first book of essays.


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1982

MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone?

as Cecily "Sissy" Loper

The Pelican Brief 1982

A little bit "Clue"-like movie / video game. Derrick Reardon has been killed in his huge mansion on Long Island and every person present on the crime scene is a suspect.

1983

Jaws 3

as Kelly Ann Bukowski

The Pelican Brief 1983

Another incarnation of original Jaws - this time huge shark is attacking tourists in amusement park in Florida.

1983

All the Right Moves

as Lisa Litski

The Pelican Brief 1983

Small town in Pennsylvania with only two ways for young Stef to start his adult life - work in steel-factory like his father or win scholarship in football.

1984

Red Dawn

as Erica

The Pelican Brief 1984

Cuban and Russian forces land in small town in Colorado. While the national defence collapses the group of teenagers turn into partisans to fight the occupants and save their families.

1984

The Wild Life

as Anita

The Pelican Brief 1984

Group of teenagers at the edge of adult life have to face the adult problems.

1985

Back to the Future

as Lorraine Baines

The Pelican Brief 1985

Teenager Marty McFly travels back in time with a help of eccentric scientist Doc Brown to the moment, in which his parents first met. What he does in the past can change the present reality.

1985

Going Undercover

as Marigold de la Hunt

The Pelican Brief 1985

Private investigator Henry Brilliant is hired by Miss de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. The daughter happens to be a seductive young woman, who doesn’t really want to be protected.

1986

Howard the Duck

as Beverly Switzler

The Pelican Brief 1986

Howard, a duck-like creature from another world, is dropped to Earth, where he has to save our planet from alien invaders.

1986

Space Camp

as Kathryn Fairly

The Pelican Brief 1986

Young people arrive to a summer camp with space travel as main theme. During their training unusual circumstances lead to their actual flight in space.

1987

Some Kind of Wonderful

as Amanda Jones

The Pelican Brief 1987

A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl’s old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.

1988

The Wizard of Loneliness

as Sybil

The Pelican Brief 1988

Young boy have to move to his aunt’s house when his father is going on World War II. Lonely and unhappy he has to grow up and face the reality.

1988

Casual Sex?

as Stacy

The Pelican Brief 1988

Light comedy about men-women relationships - Stacy and her friend Melissa took a trip to health resort in order to find a partner for life. Their efforts are giving strange results, but in the end they gain more knowledge about themselves.

1989

Nightbreaker

as Sally Matthews

The Pelican Brief 1989

Based on a true facts story about first US Army experiments with nuclear bombs - in 1950s as part of scientific research large groups of American soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation after atomic bomb explosion.

1989

Back to the Future II

as Lorraine Baines

The Pelican Brief 1989

Second part of Back to the Future - same story, same concept, same characters.

1989-1996

Tales From the Crypt

as Sylvia Vane

The Pelican Brief 1989

Episode: Only Sin Deep. Lea Thompson as a high class prostitute is trying to find the way to keep her youth, but it turnes out to be a dead end...

1990

Back to the Future III

as Lorraine Baines

The Pelican Brief 1990

Another part of Back to the Future - this time Marty McFly is moving back in time to 19th century, where he meets his grand-grandparents.

1990

Montana

as Peg Guthrie

The Pelican Brief 1990

The family of ranchers in Montana are torn apart when big oil company offers a ton of money to buy out their land. The family members have completely different approach towards the past and the future of their ranch.

1992-1998

The Larry Sanders Show

as Lea Thompson

The Pelican Brief 1992

Sitcom centered around host of a late night talk show.

1992

Article 99

as Dr. Robin Van Dorn

The Pelican Brief 1992

This movie shows a reality of Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Kansas City where war veterans are treated by the heartless bureaucracy like unneeded corps.

1993

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Laura Jackson

The Pelican Brief 1993

Movie based on TV-series "Beverly Hillbillies' popular in the 1960s - the Clampett family gets very rich thanks to oil discovered on their land and they move to Beverly Hills. Comedy is based on the differences between previous and current lifestyle.

1993

Stolen Babies

as Annie Beales

The Pelican Brief 1993

Movie based on a true story. Set in Tennessee in 1940 where welfare worker discovers that head of a local adoption agency is actually selling babies in black-market deals.

1993

Dennis the Menace

as Alice Mitchell

The Pelican Brief 1993

Movie created on Hank Ketcham’s long-running comic strip, cartoon show, and television comedy. Dennis Mitchell, the hell-of-a-kid is terrorizing all animals in the neighborhood and also older man living next door).

1994-2003

Friends

as Caroline Duffy

The Pelican Brief 1994

School time friends begin to live together in two flats in New York City, but their emotions from the past begin to affect their present love and career choices.

1994

The Substitute Wife

as Amy Hightower

The Pelican Brief 1994

Wife and mother of four children is ill and expects to die soon. She decides to find a new wife for her husband, who will take her of the family in future. She doesn’t have too much choice and decides to teach a prostitute named Pearl how to be a wife and good mother.

1994

Little Rascals

as Ms. Roberts

The Pelican Brief 1994

Children’s comedy based on characters from "Our Gang" shorts of the 1920s and 1930s.

1995-1998

Caroline in the City

as Caroline Duffy

The Pelican Brief 1995

Successful New York cartoonist Caroline Duffy, author of comic strip called Caroline in the City, hires an uptight artists Richard as the colorist. With her midwest approach she just can’t help trying to change his cynical mind.

1995

The Unspoken Truth

as Brianne Hawkins

The Pelican Brief 1995

Young woman involved in a shooting is sent to prison, but her family is convinced that she is innocent.

1996

The Right to Remain Silent

as Officer Christine Paley

The Pelican Brief 1996

A young police officer starts the duty and on the first night she faces cases that only on the surface seem to be simple.

1997

TV Guide Looks at Christmas

as host

The Pelican Brief 1997

Lea Thompson was a host for TV Guide Christmas program.

1998

Television: The First Fifty Years

as host

The Pelican Brief 1998

Lea Thompson was one of the hosts (along with Walter Cronkite, Tom Selleck, Tom Arnold, Milton Berle and Art Linkletter) for program showing the first steps of television as a entertainment media.

1998

Intimate Portrait: Lea Thompson

as herself

The Pelican Brief 1998

TV program dedicated to Lea Thompson - interviews with her, her family, friends and co-workers.

1998

Celebrity Weddings: In Style

as host

The Pelican Brief 1998

Lea Thompson was a host for this TV program presenting buzz around the celebrity weddings.

1998

The Unknown Cyclist

as Melissa Cavatelli

The Pelican Brief 1998

In his last will man dying of AIDS asks his closest friends to take part in a 450-miles bike-a-thon along the California coast to raise money for the foundations that are looking for cure. His ex-wife, ex-lover and long strained twin brother have to face the loss and realize what is important in their lives.

1998

A Will of Their Own

as Amanda Steward

The Pelican Brief 1998

Miniseries telling long story of women living all through the 20th century - immigration to USA, fight for women rights, World War I, times of Great Crisis, World War II...

2000-2003

Ed

as Liz Stevens

The Pelican Brief 2000

Ed Stevens, a lawyer in New York City firm, after finding his wife in bed with mailman decides to change his lie. He moves back to his hometown - Stuckeyville - and opens his own legal practice in bowling alley that he bought.

2002

Haunted Lighthouse

as Peg Van Legge

The Pelican Brief 2002

2002-2002

For the People

as Camille Paris

The Pelican Brief 2002

Camille Paris is a liberal-minded Los Angeles deputy district attorney. Her professional world is turned upside down when a conservative African-American district attorney is elected and becomes her new boss.

2002

Fish Don’t Blink

as Clara

The Pelican Brief 2002

Nautilus is a rundown restaurant in the middle of the desert, miles from the nearest highway. Jimmy, who runs it together with his sister Clara, plans to sell it and finally see the world, but young couple that arrives one day will shake up the Nautilus.

2003

Stealing Christmas

as Sarah Gibson

The Pelican Brief 2003

Jack Clayton can only escape after his partner in crime Harry Zordich messes up a Christmas sales department sore robbery in a Santa suit. Stuck in a rural small town, he finds himself forced to accept a menial job under the alias Oscar Burton as Santa in Sarah Gibson’s nursery.

2004

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Michelle Osborne

The Pelican Brief 2004

The series shows the work of Special Victims Unit, a new elite squad of NYPD detectives who investigate sexually oriented crimes.

2005

Jane Doe

as Cathy Davis

The Pelican Brief 2005

Cathy Davis is a typical housewife taking care of house and family. But sometimes she also has to take care of the criminals.

2005

Come Away Home

as Carol Lamm

The Pelican Brief 2005

Family movie about friendship between 12-year-old girl and her grandpa.

2006

10 tricks

as Grace

The Pelican Brief 2006

In one night, a madam at a brothel makes plans to get pregnant, while a magician working across the street makes a drastic move to change his life.

2007

A Life Interrupted

as Debbie Smith

The Pelican Brief 2007

Case of Debbie Smith, a rape victim, that changed the use of DNA testing in investigations.

2007

Final Approach

as Alicia Bender

The Pelican Brief 2007

A group of terrorists hijack a passenger plane and threaten to detonate a nuclear device over L.A. On board there is an ex FBI negotiator that does his best to save the people.

2007

Out of Omaha

as Ginger Gainor

The Pelican Brief 2007

Ginger plans the family road trip from Omaha to California in an RV. Her family is reluctant and would prefer to spend the time other way, but Ginger doesn’t want to give up her dream.

2007

Senior Skip Day

as Cathleen Harris

The Pelican Brief 2007

Teenage Adam Harris falls in love with Cara, the most popular girl in school.

2008

Exit Speed

as Maudie McMinn

The Pelican Brief 2008

Group of passengers on a bus traveling across Texas are terrorized by the gang of bikers.

2008

Spy School

as Claire Miller

The Pelican Brief 2008

The story of a 12-year-old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President’s daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.

2008

The Mrs. Clause

as Sophie

The Pelican Brief 2008

Woman makes a wish her life were completely different and the wish becomes truth, but she learns some wishes should remain just wishes.

2009

Rock Slyde

as Master Bartologist

The Pelican Brief 2009

Private detective Rock Slyde begins new investigation, in which he will have to face the cult leader Bart that is for some reason determined to force Slyde of his office.

2009

Splinterheads

as Susan Frost

The Pelican Brief 2009

A traveling carnival rolls in to town for the summer and changes the life of young man Justin Frost.

2009

The Check

as Darla

The Pelican Brief 2009

Two couples have dinner in a restaurant. Everything goes smoothly until the check arrives.

2009

Balancing the Books

as Rebecca

The Pelican Brief 2009

Attractive woman raped by a man she was dating seeks help of her friends to get even.

2010

Uncle Nigel

as Abby Wells

The Pelican Brief 2010

A police detective takes his incompetent nephew as a partner.

2010

Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer

as Laura

The Pelican Brief 2010

Arthur Lyle miraculously discovers the secret to stopping an evil dragon named Lord Darksmoke who threatens to destroy all civilization.

2011

Thin Ice

as Jo Ann Prohaska

The Pelican Brief 2011

A dishonest insurance salesman gets involved in the plot to earn some quick money, but ends up with a dead body.

2011-2016

Switched at Birth

as Kathryn Kennish

The Pelican Brief 2011

Switched at Birth tells the story of two teen girls who discover that they were accidentally switched at birth.

2011

Game of Your Life

as Abbie

The Pelican Brief 2011

When industrious high school gamer Zach Taylor lands a prized scholarship to the prestigious Digital Institute of Game Design (DIGD), his future breaks wide open. The opportunity to study under gaming legend Marcus Bentton and alongside the country’s most creative minds will certainly propel him into a successful career as a video game designer.

2011

J. Edgar

as Lela Rogers

The Pelican Brief 2011

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the FBI for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

2011

The Trouble with the Truth

as Emily

The Pelican Brief 2011

Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she’s engaged.

2011

The Cabin

as Lily MacDougal

The Pelican Brief 2011

A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can’t stand each other... at first.

2011

Mayor Cupcake

as Mary Maroni

The Pelican Brief 2011

A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean up the town.

2012

Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake

as Cassandra Williams

The Pelican Brief 2012

Hidden objects game - you return to your hometown to hunt down the evil relic that destroyed this place almost forty years ago.

2012

Love at the Christmas Table

as Elissa Beth Dixon

The Pelican Brief 2012

Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children’s Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. And at thirty, Sam realizes that Kat is the one for him... But he’s afraid that the past will get in the way.

2013

Ping Pong Summer

as Crandall Miracle

The Pelican Brief 2013

A family vacation during the summer of 1985 changes everything for a teenage boy obsessed with ping pong.

2013

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

as Julia

The Pelican Brief 2013

Movie centers around the reality of mental illness and families of those suffering from them.

2014

Left Behind

as Irene Steele

The Pelican Brief 2014

When people begin to disappear without a trace, even on board of an airplane, people try to find the answer to what is going on and they find it in God.

2014

My Mother’s Future Husband

as Rene Henderson

The Pelican Brief 2014

Fifteen-year-old Headly and her mother Rene are not only mother and daughter, they are also the best friends, especially since Headly’s father died. When she experienced her first romantic crush she wants her mother to find love again.

2014

Dancing with the Stars

The Pelican Brief 2014

2018

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

as Jules Osborn-Burgess

The Pelican Brief 2018

Sierra is smart and aspirational teenager, she isn’t popular, and not considered attractive. Popular classmate Veronica gives her number to a handsome guy, which starts a surprising chain of events.




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