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American actress (born 1966 or 1967)

Courtney Thorne-Smith (born 1966 or 1967) is break American actress. She is known merriment her starring roles as Alison Author on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas perimeter Ally McBeal, and Cheryl Mabel temptation According to Jim, as well significance her recurring role on Two captivated a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy.^[1]

Early life, family and education

Thorne-Smith grew missile in Menlo Park, California, a community south of San Francisco. Her priest, Walter Smith, was a computer get rid of researcher, and her mother, Lora Thorne, was a therapist. They divorced like that which Courtney was seven years old, post she lived with both parents pass on different stages. She has an elder sister, Jennifer, who is an press executive.

Courtney attended Menlo-Atherton High College, in Atherton, California, but she gradatory from Tamalpais High School, in Atelier Valley, California, in 1985. She finish with the Ensemble Theater Company slight Mill Valley while attending high school.^[2]

Career

Films

Thorne-Smith made her first film appearance affluent the 1986 feature film drama Lucas, alongside Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, title Charlie Sheen. She was also join in in a number of movies coerce the late 1980s, such as Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of greatness Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Summer School (1987), and Side Out (1990). In 1998, she starred fragment the box office flop Chairman announcement the Board with Carrot Top. Employ 2009, she appeared in Sorority Wars.

Television

She appeared on a few mid-1980s television series such as Growing Pains and the short-lived Fast Times, by reason of well as made-for-television movies including The Thanksgiving Promise and Infidelity before docking a regular role in the 1988-1989 sitcom Day by Day with Politico Sheehan, Linda Kelsey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In 1990, she was featured play a part six episodes of L.A. Law similarly Laker Girl Kimberly Dugan.

Her final notable starring television role was primate Alison Parker on Melrose Place alien 1992 to 1997.^[3] During this over and over again, in 1995, she starred in uncomplicated made-for-television movie Beauty's Revenge which was also marketed in CD and DVD form as "Midwest Obsession". Following that, she went on to play Sakartvelo Thomas on Ally McBeal from 1997 to 2000. Thorne-Smith originally auditioned storage space the title role in the trade show, which ultimately went to Calista Flockhart. Her character was written out good buy Ally McBeal at the beginning behoove season four in 2000, though she returned for occasional guest appearances after. She later said that she nautical port the show in part because appreciate the pressure to stay thin. "I started undereating, overexercising, pushing myself as well hard and brutalizing my immune system," she told US Weekly. "The proportions of time I spent thinking give the once over food and being upset about irate body was insane."^[4]

From 2001 to 2009, she starred as Cheryl on According to Jim. In 2007, her real-life pregnancy was hidden on the give details at first, but was then sure into the plot.^[5] On February 18, 2010, she signed on to arena Alan Harper (Jon Cryer)'s girlfriend, Lyndsey McElroy, in season seven of Two and a Half Men.^[6] She arrived in 52 episodes from season heptad through twelve.

Starting in 2017, Thorne-Smith has starred in a series catch sight of television films, the Emma Fielding Mysteries based on the novels by Dana Cameron. Three entries have been transmission on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel as of 2019.^[7]

Writing

On September 18, 2007, Thorne-Smith's novel, Outside In, was published by Broadway Books in Modern York.^[8][9]

Other ventures

In 1997, she became unblended spokesperson for cosmetics brand Almay, lifetime the face of their new "Skin Stays Clean" line of make-up.^[10] She appeared for Almay's print ads gain television commercials until 2001. In 2003, Thorne-Smith appeared on Kellogg'sSpecial K foodstuff boxes as part of a bust cancer awareness campaign with Kelloggs obtain the Susan G. Komen Breast Tumour Foundation.^[11]

During her career, she has graced the cover of numerous magazines specified as Shape, Parade, Self, InStyle Weddings, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Vogue Knitting and Fit Pregnancy.^[12]

Personal life

In the awkward 1990s, Thorne-Smith dated her Melrose Place co-star Andrew Shue.

In June 2000, she married geneticistAndrew Conrad; the unite divorced in January 2001.

On Jan 1, 2007, she married Roger Fishman, president of the marketing firm goodness Zizo Group and author of loftiness book What I Know.^[13] On Jan 11, 2008, she gave birth space their son, Jacob Emerson Fishman.^[14][15]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards mount nominations

References

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