Courtney Thorne Smith Profile

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Birth Name:Courtney Thorne Smith
Famous As: Actress, TV actress
Date of Birth: November 08, 1967
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Height: 5' 6
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Relationships: Andrew Shue (actor, dated 1992), Robert Andrews (cardiologist, engaged, 2002-2004)
Mother: Lora Thorne-Smith
Sister(s): Jennifer Thorne-Smith (advertising executive)
Spouse: Andrew Conrad (geneticist, June 02, 2000 - Jan 2001)
Education: Graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School, Atherton, California
Attended Tamalpais High School - Mill Valley, California
Attended Ensemble Theatre Company in Northern California, studying acting
Claim to Fame: As Alison Parker in TV series Melrose Place (1992-1997)

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Courtney Thorne-Smith
Born November 8, 1967 (1967-11-08) (age 42)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1986–present
Spouse(s) Andrew Conrad (2000–2001)
Roger Fishman (2007–present)

Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her portraying of Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal and Cheryl in According to Jim.

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Early life

She was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Menlo Park, a suburb south of San Francisco. Her father, Walter Smith, was a computer market researcher and her mother was a therapist. They divorced when she was seven years old, and she lived with both parents at different stages. She attended Menlo-Atherton High School, in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. She also performed with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley while attending high school.1

Career

Films

Thorne-Smith made her first film appearance in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas alongside Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. She was also involved in a number of movies in the late 1980s, such as Summer School (1987), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Side Out (1990), and Chairman of the Board (1998).

Television

She appeared on a few mid-'80s television shows such as Growing Pains and the short-lived Fast Times, as well as made-for-TV movies including The Thanksgiving Promise and Infidelity before landing a regular role in the short-lived sitcom Day by Day with Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In 1990, she was featured in six episodes of the popular TV series LA Law as Kimberly Dugan.

Her first notable starring television role was as Alison Parker on Melrose Place from 1992–1997. She also went on to play Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal from 1997–2000. Thorne-Smith had originally auditioned for the title role in the show. In 1999, she became a spokeswoman for Almay cosmetics, being the face of their new line of make-up "Skin Stays Clean." She left Ally McBeal because she felt pressured to be so thin that her health was in jeopardy, and also wanted to spend more time with then-new husband Andrew Conrad.2 She did however, occasionally guest star on the show.

From 2001 to 2009, Thorne-Smith starred as Cheryl on the sitcom According to Jim. Her pregnancy was hidden on the show at first, but was written into the plot.3

On February 18, 2010, Courtney signed on to play Alan Harper's girlfriend in the seventh season of Two and a Half Men.4

Writing

On September 18, 2007, Thorne-Smith's novel, Outside In, was published by Broadway Books, in New York, New York.

Personal life

In June 2000, Thorne-Smith married genetic scientist Andrew Conrad, but they divorced in January 2001. She married Roger Fishman on January 1, 2007.5 On January 11, 2008, she gave birth to their first child, Jacob 'Jake' Emerson Fishman.6

Awards

Screen Actors Guild Award

References

  1. ^ Courtney Thorne Smith Bio
  2. ^ KECK, WILLIAM. "Courtney Thorne-Smith quit Ally McBeal because of an eating disorder". http://www.oocities.com/Hollywood/4616/us1211a.html. 
  3. ^ Courtney Thorne-Smith's Pregnancy Written into Show, TVGuide.com, 22 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Courtney Thorne-Smith woos one of 'Two and a Half Men'". http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/02/courtney-thorne-smith-woos-one-of-two-and-a-half-men.html. 
  5. ^ Clinton, Ivory (January 09, 2007). "Courtney Thorne-Smith Marries". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20007916,00.html. 
  6. ^ "Courtney Thorne-Smith Has a Boy". People.com. January 11, 2008. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20168141,00.html. 

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