Thompson, Lea Filmography

• Left Behind
  2014, role: actress , character name: Irene Steele
• The Gatekeeper
  2013, role: actress , character name: Ellen
• Ping Pong Summer
  2013, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Miracle
• Milius
  2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
  2013, role: actress , character name: Julia
• Love at the Christmas Table
  2012, role: actress , character name: Elissa Beth Dixon
• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Shirley MacLaine
  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Bound by Flesh
  2012, role: actress
• Mayor Cupcake
  2011, role: actress , character name: Mary Maroni
• Mayor Cupcake
  2011, role: producer
• Alzheimer's Disease: A Guide for Patients and Families
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself - Spokesperson
• The Trouble with the Truth
  2011, role: actress , character name: Emily
• The Convincer
  2011, role: actress , character name: Jo Ann Prohaska
• The Cabin
  2011, role: actress , character name: Lily MacDougal
• Game of Your Life
  2011, role: actress , character name: Abbie
• J. Edgar
  2011, role: actress , character name: Lela Rogers
• The Trouble with the Truth
  2011, role: producer
• 80th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Uncle Nigel
  2010, role: actress , character name: Abby Wells
• Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer
  2010, role: actress , character name: Laura
• The Check
  2009, role: actress , character name: Darla
• Splinterheads
  2009, role: actress , character name: Susan Frost
• Rock Slyde
  2009, role: actress , character name: Master Bartologist
• Looking Back to the Future
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Balancing the Books
  2009, role: actress , character name: Rebecca
• Balancing the Books
  2009, role: producer
• Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
  2008, role: director
• Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
  2008, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
  2008, role: actress , character name: Jane Doe
• The Mrs. Clause
  2008, role: actress , character name: Sophie
• Exit Speed
  2008, role: actress , character name: Maudie McMinn
• Spy School
  2008, role: actress , character name: Claire Miller
• Senior Skip Day
  2008, role: actress , character name: Cathleen Harris
• Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
  2007, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• A Life Interrupted
  2007, role: actress , character name: Debbie Smith
• Final Approach
  2007, role: actress , character name: Alicia Bender
• Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
  2007, role: actress , character name: Jane Doe
• Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
  2007, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Out of Omaha
  2007, role: actress , character name: Ginger Gainor
• Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
  2006, role: director
• Jane Doe: The Brigadoon Effect
  2006, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Jane Doe: The Brigadoon Effect
  2006, role: actress , character name: Jane Doe
• Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
  2006, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
  2006, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Looking Back at the Future
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 10 Tricks
  2006, role: actress , character name: Grace
• Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
  2005, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Hollywood's Master Storytellers: Back to the Future 20th Anniversary
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
  2005, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis
• Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
  2005, role: actress , character name: Cathy Davis

Thompson, Lea Filmography

• To Not Fade Away
  2012, role: actress , character name: Narration
• Not Fade Away
  2009, role: actress , character name: Narration
• Medical Marijuana
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself - Host
• The Prudent Advisor
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself - Host
• Dateline NBC
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself - Correspondent

Thompson, Lea Filmography

• Pájaros sin nido
  1922, role: actress

Famous quotes by Lea Thompson:

"It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years."

"I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them."

"One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!"

"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."

"'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns."

"'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical."

"I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children."

"It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business."

"'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops."

"'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part."

"So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked."

"And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss."

"Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars."

"The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying."

"I don't even know how to swim!"

"In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic."