Biography
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She is best known for her roles as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Dennis the Menace (1993), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). In the 1990s, she played the title character in ...
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Complete Filmography

BRATS
2024
as Self
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. H...

The Disappearance of Cari Farver
2022
as Nancy Farver
Dave Kroupa is shocked when his new girlfriend, Cari Farver, starts sending him demanding texts. When Dave ends the relationship, he finds himself on ...

Ten Tricks
2022
as Grace
In one night, a madam at a brothel makes plans to get pregnant, while a magician working across the street makes a drastic move to change his life.

Retour vers le futur : Voyage dans le temps, American Dream & rock'n'roll
2022
as Self
The script of "Back to the Future" was one of the most refused of Hollywood: more than forty times. No producer believed in this project of Robert Zem...

Unplugging
2022
as Perkins
Think a rustic getaway with no cell service, Internet or social media is a romantic way to repair your marriage and sex life? Think again. Meet Dan an...

Next Stop, Christmas
2021
as Evelyn
Angie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Ch...

Mark, Mary + Some Other People
2021
as Aunty Carol
Mark and Mary's meet-cute happens at a neighborhood drug store, where she is busy buying a pregnancy test, and he has to make an effort to remind her ...

Dinner in America
2020
as Betty
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the A...

Cool Cat's Crazy Dream
2019
as Dream World Lea
Cool Cat, the coolest cat in the world, tells his friends, the audience, a crazy dream, how he was invited to a celebrity party and meets many celebri...

Little Women
2018
as Margaret "Marmee" March
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage ...

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018
as Mrs. Burgess
A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win ov...

The Year of Spectacular Men
2018
as Deb Klein
In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating po...

The Year of Spectacular Men
2018
Director
In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating po...

Who We Are Now
2018
as Alana
Recently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth ...

Literally, Right Before Aaron
2017
as Deb (Adam's Mom)
Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her...

The Dog Lover
2016
as Liz Holloway
Sara Gold is a young girl on a quest to save man's best friend. When she goes undercover to take down a dog breeder suspected of wrongdoing, she quick...

Stars Are Already Dead
2016
as Aunt Sophia
After his mother's devastating death, Phoenix moves to LA where he meets two people change his life forever. Together they will pull each other out of...

Keith Lemon's Back t'Future Tribute
2015
as Self
A one-off 90 minute special in which Keith Lemon pays tribute to the iconic Back To The Future films.

Back in Time
2015
as Self
Cast, crew and fans explore the 'Back to the Future' time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture—30 years after Marty McFly went back in ti...

Left Behind
2014
as Irene Steele
A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruc...

Ping Pong Summer
2014
as Mrs. Miracle
In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.

My Mother's Future Husband
2014
as René Henderson
Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother, Rene, has mourned her father's death long enough, so she decides to find her a new husband by the e...

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
as Julia
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Milius
2013
as Self
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.

Love at the Christmas Table
2012
as Elissa Beth
Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children's Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. An...

John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
2012
as Self
A tribute to John Hughes, featuring an archive interview with him from 1986 and those that have worked with him, including Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruc...

Bound by Flesh
2012
as Voiceover
Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were once the cream of the sideshow crop. Taught to sing and dance at an early age, the winsome duo ascended t...

The Trouble with the Truth
2012
as Emily
Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she's engaged.

Thin Ice
2012
as Jo Ann Prohaska
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the...

Game of Your Life
2011
as Abbie
When industrious high school gamer Zach Taylor lands a prized scholarship to the prestigious Digital Institute of Game Design (DIGD), his future break...

J. Edgar
2011
as Lela Rogers
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind close...

The Cabin
2011
as Lily MacDougal
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally book...

Mayor Cupcake
2011
as Mary Maroni
A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. With no formal experience or education to speak of, sh...

Tales from the Future
2010
as Self
Eight-part retrospective documentary on the making of "Back to the Future" (and its two sequels) for the film's 25th anniversary.

Rock Slyde
2010
as Master Bartologist
A film noir comedy about Rock Slyde, a down-and-out private detective that engages in a turf war with an upstart quasi-religious cult, The House of Ba...

Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer
2010
as Laura
Arthur unwittingly discovers the secret to stopping an evil dragon who threatens to destroy all civilization.

Splinterheads
2009
as Susan Frost
SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. When a small-t...

Looking Back to the Future
2009
as Self
A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy.

Looking Back to the Future
2009
Thanks
A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy.

Fatal Secrets
2009
as Rebecca
An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking po...

Fatal Secrets
2009
Associate Producer
An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking po...

The Christmas Clause
2008
as Sophie
A stressed out lawyer and mother of three gets her yuletide wish when she wishes to see what her life would be like if she had chosen to pursue her ca...

My Best Friend's Girl
2008
Thanks
Lovestruck Dustin is dating Alexis, his ideal girlfriend, but when she dumps him for coming on too strong, Dustin takes drastic measures to win her ba...

Exit Speed
2008
as Maudie McMinn
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas and are forced off the road by a motorcycle gang. The passengers then take refuge i...

Final Approach
2008
as Alicia Bender
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nigh...

Senior Skip Day
2008
as Cathleen Harris
The senior class plans to have a skip-day party at the principal's house until Adam Harris leaks the secret, so he decides to save the celebration by ...

Spy School
2008
as Claire Miller
Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes pu...

Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
2008
as Cathy Davis / Jane Doe
Cathy and Frank partner with a beautiful insurance investigator to recover a stolen masterpiece. Frank is smitten with her, even though it becomes mor...

Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
2008
Director
Cathy and Frank partner with a beautiful insurance investigator to recover a stolen masterpiece. Frank is smitten with her, even though it becomes mor...

Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
2007
as Cathy Davis
Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.

A Life Interrupted
2007
as Debbie Smith
After Debbie Smith was raped, she didn't take the law into her own hands. She wrote the law... Based on a true story. In 1989, Debbie Smith was living...

Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
2007
as Cathy Davis / Jane Doe
DNA evidence and camera footage places a corrupt CEO as the prime suspect in the murder of a company whistle-blower, but Jane Doe believes the real ki...

California Dreaming
2007
as Ginger Gainor
Unforeseen obstacles stand in the way of a family planning to take a road trip in an RV.
Looking Back at the Future
2006
as Herself
Looking to the future is a documentary about the filming of the legendary trilogy Back to the Future.

Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
2006
as Cathy Davis
Jane must get to the truth when a breakfast cereal magnate takes a tragic spill from his private yacht and drowns.

Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
2006
Director
Jane must get to the truth when a breakfast cereal magnate takes a tragic spill from his private yacht and drowns.

Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
2006
as Cathy Davis
Jane Doe must solve the kidnapping of a famous mentalist who possesses the names of secret foreign agents.
The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful
2006
as Self
A 2006 featurette on the film 'Some Kind of Wonderful', with interviews with the main actors and with the director.

Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
2005
as Cathy Davis
When it comes to crime solving, nobody does it better than Jane Doe.

Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
2005
as Cathy Davis
When a ruthless arms Kingpin stages an ingenious escape from prison, Jane Doe and Frank Darnell, NSA head, realize he's bent on a vengeance killin. Wh...

Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
2005
as Cathy Davis
The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles bank. The NSA, with the assistance of a puzzle solver (Code Name: Jane Doe...

Jane Doe: Vanishing Act
2005
as Cathy Davis
Cathy Davis, one the smartest government agents in the country is urged out of retirement to crack the case of a missing computer file.

Come Away Home
2005
as Carol
Twelve-year-old Annie Lamm's first day of summer break quickly turns into a disaster. She realizes that her parents have not only decided to fly her t...

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004
as Beverly Switzler (archive footage)
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...

Stealing Christmas
2003
as Sarah Gibson
When thief Jack Clayton is about to be caught at the mall, he dresses up as Santa Claus and hops on the bus to Evergreen. He is mistaken for the new S...

Haunted Lighthouse 4-D
2003
as Peg Van Legge
Two ghosts that are children are forced to stay on a haunted beach and 100 years later find two children on the same beach trying to turn them into gh...

Fish Don't Blink
2002
as Clara

The Unknown Cyclist
1998
as Melissa Cavatelli
A man's dying wish is for the people in his life to participate in a 450-mile charity bicycle ride through Northern California.

The Right to Remain Silent
1996
as Christine Paley
Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paley is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals...

The Unspoken Truth
1995
as Brianne Hawkins
Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne marries Clay, and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that he...

The Little Rascals
1994
as Ms. Roberts
When nine-year-old Alfalfa falls for Darla, his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage their relationship.

The Substitute Wife
1994
as Amy Hightower
In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to ma...

The Beverly Hillbillies
1993
as Laura Jackson
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with rega...

Dennis the Menace
1993
as Alice Mitchell
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of g...

Stolen Babies
1993
as Annie Beales
A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local adoption agency, is actually running a black-market baby rin...

Article 99
1992
as Dr. Robin Van Dorn
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...

Back to the Future Part III
1990
as Maggie McFly / Lorraine McFly
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time mac...

Montana
1990
as Peg Guthrie
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and...

Back to the Future Part II
1989
as Lorraine
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff...

Nightbreaker
1989
as Sally Matthews
Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, ex...

The Wizard of Loneliness
1988
as Sybil
After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and u...

Going Undercover
1988
as Marigold de la Hunt
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Den...

Casual Sex?
1988
as Stacy
Two girls go away to a holiday resort looking for a change of pace, hoping to meet some nice men for a change. They discover that they can't find the ...

Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
as Amanda Jones
Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. How...

The Making of Back to the Future
1986
as Self
The Making of 'Back to the Future'

Howard the Duck
1986
as Beverly Switzler
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...

SpaceCamp
1986
as Kathryn
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One nig...

Back to the Future
1985
as Lorraine Baines
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother...

The Wild Life
1984
as Anita
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.

Red Dawn
1984
as Erica
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Sovie...

All the Right Moves
1983
as Lisa
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football schol...

Jaws 3-D
1983
as Kelly Ann Bukowski
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
1983
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.
Queen
N/A
as Dr. Page
Short film by Evan Rachel Wood.

A Pretty Good Movie
N/A
as Ramona
After 50 years of failure an amalgamated man sets out to make a name for himself through cinema, but as his production unfolds the various versions of...

You Are Here
N/A
as Helen
At their reunion in Malibu, a young scientist stuns his estranged family with an unusual request after he reveals that he's dying.
What If
N/A
Marley, a woman in her 40s, discovers she was part of a hospital birth mix-up. The revelation sends her on a journey to redefine family, accompanied b...

SEGAL
N/A
as Self
From a shy kid on Long Island to Hollywood Leading Man, during its most prolific decades, legendary entertainer George Segal shares his life story.
Manville
N/A
Director
Manville tells the story of Alice, a selective woman who swipes left on her millionth potential match and receives an invitation to Manville: a matchm...