Courtney Thorne-Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith was born on the 8th November 1967. She is most famous for her roles in Melrose Place as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, Cheryl in According to Jim and her regular role on Two and a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy. Thorne Smith was raised 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 psychotherapist. Courtney was seven when her parents divorced. Courtney lived with both parents in different periods. Jennifer is her older sister is an advertising executive. She graduated in 1985 from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. While in the high school, she also took part in performances with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley. Thorne-Smith made her first film appearance in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas, alongside Winona Ryder Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. In the latter half of the 1980s, she was also in a number of films that included Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II (Nerds in Paradise) (1987), Summer School (1987) and Side Out(90). In 1998, she was an actor in the box office film Chairman Of The Board, which was a flop alongside Carrot Top. Thorne-Smith was in Sorority Wars in 2009. Thorne Smith dated Andrew Shue in the 1990s. He was her screen mate from Melrose Place. The actress got married to geneticist Andrew Conrad in June 2000. They split in 2001. Roger Fishman, the president of Zizo Group marketing and author of What I Know, was her husband. On January 11, 2008, when she was 40 years old, she gave birth to her son, Jacob Emerson Fishman.