Lea Thompson

Lea Thompson is probably best known to audiences for playing Michael J. Fox’s mother Lorraine Baines McFly in the ’80s classic movie Back to the Future.  She’s also had sporadic roles in films such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Red Dawn, and All the Right Moves.

In the ’90s, she was cast as the lead on her own show, NBC’s Caroline in the City. She portrayed the character cartoonist Caroline Duffy, and the show lasted a total of four seasons. She was most recently starring in the ABC Family drama called Switched At Birth.