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 character 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 market researchers. Courtney was just seven years old when her parents separated. Courtney lived with both parents for a variety of times. Jennifer her elder sister is an executive in the field of advertising. She attended Menlo Atherton High School located in Atherton, California and graduated Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley in 1985. While at the high school system, she was a member in the Ensemble Theater Company of Mill Valley. Thorne Smith made her debut film appearance in the 1986 movie drama Lucas, alongside Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. Thorne-Smith was also a part of several films during the late 1980s including Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Summer School (1987) and Side Out (1990). In 1998, she was a star in the box-office flop Chairman of the board with Carrot Top. In 2009, she starred in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith was a fan 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. 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 years of age.