What is Lea Thompson?
{{Infobox actor | name = Lea Katherine Thompson | image = Lea Thompson by Gregg Bond (2008).jpg | caption = Lea Thompson in 2008 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|May|31}} }} '''Lea Katherine Thompson''' (born May 31, 1961) is an [[Americans|American]] [[actress]]. She acted in the 1983 [[movie]] ''All the Right Moves'' and the [[1990s]] [[situation comedy|sitcom]] ''Caroline in the City''. She also starred in many made for [[television]] movies. == Early life == Thompson was born in [[Rochester, Minnesota]]. Both she and her older brother Andrew Thompson took ballet classes as children. Both became dancers with major dance companies--Andrew with the Colorado Ballet and Lea with the American Ballet Theatre. After Lea had many injuries and Mikail Baryshnikov told her she didn't have the ideal body, she left professional ballet to become an actress. == Other websites == *{{imdb|0000670}} <br />{{US-actor-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Lea}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Actors from Minnesota]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:American television actors]] [[Category:People from Rochester, Minnesota]]