Lea Thompson Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

Trivia

Her favorite recipes are Olive chicken over pasta, her mother's spaghetti, and green bean and salami salad.

She began studing dance at the age of 9 years old.

When she was a kid she would practice ballet for three to four hours every day.

Her parents divorced when she was six.

She was a ballet dancer until Baryshnikov told her she was too stocky.

Her brother, Andrew Thompson, was also a modern ballet dancer with the Colorado Ballet. They both took ballet classes throughout their youth and he helped her pay for her classes later on in life.

Her brother Andrew Thompson, also a ballet dancer, help her put up the money for dance classes when she was little.

She is married to director/producer Howard Deutch.