Courtney Thorne-Smith Bio

Courtney Thorne-Smith (born on the 8th of November, 1967) is an American actress from the United States. 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 born in Menlo Park in the south of San Francisco. Her father, Walter Smith, was an expert in market research using computers and her mother, Lora Thorne, was a therapy therapist. Courtney was seven when her parents divorced. Courtney lived with both parents at various times. Jennifer is her elder sibling is an ad executive. She graduated in 1985 from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. She also performed with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley while in high school. Thorne-Smith was the first actress to make an appearance in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas along with Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. In the 80s, she starred in numerous films including Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II : Nerds in Paradise (1987), Summer School (87) and Side Out (1990). She starred with Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, and was Chairman of the Board. She appeared in Sorority Wars in 2009. Thorne Smith has dated Andrew Shue in the 1990s. He was her screen lover from Melrose Place. The actress got married to geneticist Andrew Conrad in June 2000. They divorced in 2001. Roger Fishman, the president of Zizo Group marketing and author of What I Know, was her husband. Aged 40, she had her first child on January 11, 2008 to Jacob Emerson Fishman.