Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

Thompson directed two films from the Jane Doe series – Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall and Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder. She studied ballet as a girl and practiced three to four hours every day. Retrieved 2008-05-19.

She is known for her role as Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy and as the title character in the 1990s NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Lea Kathleen Thompson (born May 31 1961) is an American actress television director and television producer. Since 2011 Lea Thompson has co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family series Switched at Birth.