Lea Thompson

Many diehard fans of the all-time favorite classic and adventure movie Back to the Future will always recognize Lea Thompson for her iconic role as Lorraine Baines. Come 1990s, Lea bagged a role for the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City where she gained numerous fans. Since then, Lea continued to land roles for television shows and movies, including Switched at Birth, which ran from 2011 to 2017.

She studied ballet as a girl and danced professionally by the age of 14, winning scholarships to the American Ballet Theatre, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Told she did not have the right body to become a prima ballerina by Mikhail Baryshnikov himself, she changed her focus to acting. Aside from acting, Lea Thompson also made investments as a television producer and has also ventured into doing films as a director while being a doting mother to her two daughters Zoey Deutch and Madelyn Deutch.