Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actor Courtney Thorne Smith (born November 8 in 1967). Her credits include Alison Parker in Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas in Ally McBeal, Cheryl In According to Jim, and Lyndsey McElroy's role in Two and a Half Men. Thorne-Smith was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Menlo Park, a suburb south of San Francisco. Her father, Walter Smith, was a market researcher for computers and her mother, Lora Thorne, was a psychotherapist. Courtney was just seven years old when her parents separated. Courtney lived with both parents in different periods. Jennifer is her older sister, is an advertising executive. She attended Menlo Atherton High School located in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. When she was in high school, she was a member in the Ensemble Theater Company of Mill Valley. Thorne-Smith made her first film appearance in the 1986 movie drama Lucas, alongside Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. In the latter half of the 1980s, she also appeared in a variety of films which included Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II (Nerds in Paradise) (1987), Summer School (1987) and Side Out(90). She starred with Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, as Chairman of the Board. In 2009, she starred in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith was a lover of Andrew Shue from Melrose Place in the early 1990s. In June 2000, the actress married geneticist Andrew Conrad; the couple ended their relationship in January of 2001. Roger Fishman, the president of Zizo Group marketing and author of What I Know, was her husband. When she was 40, she had her first child on January 11 of 2008 to Jacob Emerson Fishman.