Lea Katherine Thompson

Thompson was born on May 31st of 1961 in Rochester (Minnesota) The actress was the youngest of five children of Clifford Barry Thompson and musician. Thompson has two older sisters, Coleen Goodrich (and Shannon Katona) and two brothers younger than her, Barry and Andrew. Her mother is of Irish descent.She began ballet training as a girl and danced professionally by the age of 14 when she was awarded scholarship opportunities to the San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.When she was 20 years aged and performing professionally with American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company (then known as ABT II), the time came to decide if she wanted to move to the company's main stage. Mikhail Baryshnikov (the director of the artistic department at the time) told her that she was a fantastic dancer but was too tall. She described the moment as "my epiphany" that led her to quit dancing and become a ballet dancer. It was a great experience because I could've been banging my head on the wall for 10 years. "She changed her focus towards acting. When she was 20, she relocated to New York with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elisabeth Shue and some others from Burger King ads. In 1982, CareerThompson appeared in Cecily "Sissy" which was a live-action interactive video game dubbed MysteryDisc Murder! Anyone? and her first movie in 1983, with Jaws 3-D. She recalls the film as "the the first film I've ever seen, however I made up my mind and claimed I'd done a couple of other movies before, and so when I showed up, I had practically nothing. I also claimed that I was able to waterski. It wasn't the case. Because I was required to participate in the Sea World water-skiing program, I was given five days to study the fundamentals of water-skiing. I don’t even know the way that swimming works!" The album was followed with All the Right Moves (1983) and Red Dawn(84) and as well as The Wild Life (1984).