Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith (born November 8 in 1967). Her most notable role is Alison Parker on Melrose Place and Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal. She also played Cheryl in According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy in 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 , as well as a therapy therapist. They divorced when Courtney was seven years old. She lived with both parents at various stages. Jennifer is her older sister is an ad executive. She attended Menlo-Atherton high school located situated 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 as she was in high school. Thorne Smith was a part of her debut movie appearance in 1986's Lucas alongside Winona Ryder and Corey Haim. Thorne-Smith was also a part of several films in the latter half of the 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 a part of Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, Chairman of the Board. In 2009, she appeared in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith has dated Andrew Shue in the 1990s. He was her screen mate from Melrose Place. In June 2000, the actress got 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. The couple welcomed Jacob Emerson Fishman on January 11, 2008, at 40.