
Biography
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She is best known for her roles as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Dennis the Menace (1993), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). In the 1990s, she played the title character in the sitcom Caroline in the City. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.
Filmography50+ titles

INVINCIBLE

Friends

Back to the Future

Scorpion

Katy Keene

The Unspoken Truth

Young Sheldon

Tales from the Crypt

Celebrity Family Feud

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Resident Alien

Back to the Future Part II

Stargirl

American Housewife

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The Larry Sanders Show

Dinner in America

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Hollywood Squares

The Goldbergs

Back to the Future Part III

Switched at Birth

Family Guy

Will Trent

Mom

Star Trek: Picard

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

Milius

The Chicken Sisters

The Muppets.

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

American Dad!

Come Away Home

The Little Rascals

Some Kind of Wonderful

Greek

Back in Time

Thin Ice

The Spencer Sisters

Next Stop, Christmas

Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall

Jane Doe: The Wrong Face

Schooled

Little Women

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

Head Case

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Wizard of Loneliness

Red Dawn

J. Edgar