Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actor Courtney Thorne Smith was born on the 8th November 1967. 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 born in Menlo Park in the south of San Francisco. Walter Smith was her father and Lora Thorne was her mother. Both were computer-based market researchers. Courtney was just seven years old when her parents separated. Courtney lived with both parents at various times. She has a younger sister named Jennifer, who is an advertising executive. She attended the Menlo-Atherton High school in Atherton, California and graduated Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley in 1985. In high school, she performed with Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley. Thorne Smith was a part of her debut movie appearance in the 1986 film Lucas alongside Winona Ryder and Corey Haim. In the late 1980s , she was also in a number of films, including Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II (Nerds in Paradise) (1987), Summer School (1987) and Side Out(90). She appeared alongside Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, Chairman of the Board. Thorne-Smith was in Sorority Wars in 2009. Thorne Smith has dated Andrew Shue in the 1990s. He was her screen lover from Melrose Place. In June 2000, she got married to geneticist Andrew Conrad; the couple divorced in January 2001. On January 1, 2007, she married Roger Fishman, president of the marketing company the Zizo Group and author of the book What I Know. She gave birth to Jacob Emerson Fishman on January 11, 2008 at 40.