Celebrities Who Ruled ’80s Cinema
Lea Thompson – Some Kind of Wonderful
Did you know that American actress Lea Thompson, best known for playing Lorraine Baines-McFly in “Back to the Future,” is also a talented director? She has directed multiple episodes for 14 TV shows to date. Fans haven’t forgotten her superb acting skills in her ’80s movies “All the Right Moves,” “Howard the Duck,” “Red Dawn,” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.”
In 1989, she married the film director Howard Deutch whom she met in 1987 while filming “Some Kind of Wonderful.” She appeared in the 2021 documentary film “Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb.”