Moving easily between dramatic and comedic roles, actress Lea Thompson has established a career that encompasses film, television and theatre. She is best known for her role in the Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis feature “Back to the Future,” I, II and III, and as the title character in the now syndicated series, “Caroline in the City,” for which she won TV Guide and People’s Choice Awards

A native of Minnesota, Thompson began her career as a professional ballet dancer and performed in more than 45 ballets with the Minnesota Dance Theatre. Her first taste of professional theatre was with the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis, in Madeline and the Gypsies and The Little Mermaid in the 1970’s. After apprenticing with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Lea moved to New York at the age of 20 to pursue an acting career. She was first featured in a supporting role in the motion picture “Jaws 3-D,” which was followed by a starring role opposite Tom Cruise in “All the Right Moves.”

Additional film credits include “Article 99,” “Casual Sex?,” John Hughes’ “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “Dennis the Menace,” “Red Dawn,” “The Wizard of Loneliness,” “Howard the Duck,” “The Wild Life,” “Space Camp,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “The Little Rascals,” “The Unknown Cyclist,” and the recently completed independent feature, “Fish Don’t Blink.”

Thompson’s television credits include the Showtime original movie, “The Right to Remain Silent,”; two NBC made-for television movies, “The Unspoken Truth,” and “The Substitute Wife”; TNT’s original movie “Montana”; an episode of HBO’s “Tales from the Crypt” and TNT’s “Nightbreaker,” for which she received a CableACE nomination. Also, for Lifetime, Thompson starred in “Stolen Babies,” and in the miniseries “A Will of Their Own.”

In 1997-1999, Thompson was featured in multiple television commercials for Chevrolet to promote their year end savings event.

Thompson’s theatre work includes Bus Stop at the Pasadena Playhouse; Tony Kushner’s The Illusion for the Los Angeles Theater Center; Long Time Coming at the Powerhouse Theater; Charlie Bacon’s Family at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton; and The Trip Back Down at the Actor’s Repertory Theatre. Lea recently finished both the National Tour and the Broadway Studio 54 production of Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret, moving on to a stint back in L.A. of The Vagina Monologues.

Currently, Thompson can be seen on Lifetime Television’s newest drama, “For the People,” playing the role of chief deputy assistant attorney, Camille Paris.

She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, film director Howard Deutch, their daughters, Zoey and Madelyn, and a menagerie of dogs, a cat, a parrot, lots of fish and several horses.