Lea Katherine Thompson

Thompson was born May 31, 1961, in Rochester (Minnesota) Thompson was born in Minnesota, one of five children of Clifford Barry Thompson who was a famous musician. [ She is the sister of Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona as well as two brothers, Andrew and Barry. Her mother is of Irish descent.She studied ballet when she was a child and began dancing professionally by 14 and was awarded scholarship opportunities to San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre.When she turned 20 older and was dancing professionally with the American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company (then known as ABT II), the moment arrived to decide if she should join the main company. Mikhail baryshnikov was then at the time the artistic director. He said to her "You are a beautiful dancer but your body is too big." According to her, it was "my epiphany ," when I decided to stop dancing and not become a ballet dancer. It was a great moment since I could have been banging my head on the wall for 10 years. "The actress changed her focus towards acting. In the year 20 she relocated to New York with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elisabeth Shue and a few other Burger King ads. In 1982, CareerThompson was Cecily "Sissy", a live-action interactive video game dubbed MysteryDisc Murder! Anyone? and also her debut film in 1983 with Jaws in 3-D. She described the film as "the very first movie I've ever watched, but I made up my mind and claimed I'd done a couple of other movies, so when I showed up, I had almost nothing about. I claimed that I knew how to water ski. But I didn't. So I had, like five days to study the most complicated water-skiing tricks, since I was expected to participate in the Sea World water-skiing show. I don't know how to could swim!" This was followed by All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (84), and The Wild Life (84).