Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith was born on the 8th of November, 1967. Her most memorable role is Alison Parker on Melrose Place and Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal. She also appeared as Cheryl in According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy in Two and a Half Men. Thorne-Smith was born in San Francisco, California, and was raised in Menlo Park, a suburb south of San Francisco. Her father, Walter Smith, was an expert in market research using computers, and her mother, Lora Thorne, was a psychotherapist. Courtney seven years old, separated from her father, Walter Smith. She lived with both parents at different times. Jennifer, her older sibling is an executive in the field of advertising. She attended the Menlo-Atherton high school located in Atherton, California and graduated Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley in 1985. When she was in high school, she played with Ensemble Theater Company of Mill Valley. Thorne Smith was a part of her debut film role in the 1986 film Lucas with Winona Ryder and Corey Haim. In the 1980s, she starred in numerous films like 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, as Chairman of the Board. In 2009, she appeared in Sorority Wars. In the beginning of the 1990s, Thorne Smith began a relationship with Andrew Shue, her on-screen lover from Melrose Place. The actress wed geneticist Andrew Conrad in June 2000. The couple divorced in 2001. Roger Fishman (president of Zizo Group Marketing Company) and author of What I Know was her wedding date. On the 11th of January 2008, at age 40 she gave birth Jacob Emerson Fishman, her son. Jacob Emerson Fishman.