Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

Courtney Thorne-Smith (born on November 8, 1967) is an American actress from the United States. Her credits include Alison Parker in Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas in Ally McBeal, Cheryl In According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy's recurring role on Two and a Half Men. Thorne Smith was raised in Menlo Park in the south of San Francisco. Walter Smith was her father. Lora Thorne was her mom and a therapist. Courtney was seven when her parents separated. Courtney lived with both parents at various times. She has a younger sister, Jennifer, who is an advertising executive. She graduated in 1985 from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. She also performed for the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley while attending high school. Thorne Smith was a part of her debut film appearance in 1986's Lucas alongside Winona Ryder and Corey Haim. Thorne-Smith was also a part of several films during the late 1980s such as Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Summer School (1987), and Side Out (1990). She was in the role of Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, as Chairman of the Board. In 2009, she was a star in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith was the lover of Andrew Shue from Melrose Place in the early 1990s. In June 2000, she got married to geneticist Andrew Conrad; the couple separated in January 2001. On January 1 2007 she got married to Roger Fishman, president of the marketing company the Zizo Group and author of the book What I Know. Aged 40, she gave birth on the morning of January 11 in 2008, to Jacob Emerson Fishman.