Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress and director.She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy and  Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck.

In this video, we take a look at the career of an actress and try to understand what happened to Lea Thompson's career.

Lea Thompson is known for the films:  Howard the Duck , All the Right Moves , Red Dawn , Some Kind of Wonderful , Dennis the Menace  and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). In the 1990s, she played the title character in the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City.