Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actor Courtney Thorne Smith (born November 8th, 1967). Her roles include Alison Parker in Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas in Ally McBeal, Cheryl In According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy's regular role on Two and a Half Men. 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 as was her mother, Lora Thorne, was a Therapist. Courtney was just seven years old when her parents separated. Courtney lived with both parents at various times. Jennifer her elder sister is an ad executive. She attended Menlo-Atherton High School, in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. While in the high school, she also performed with Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley. Thorne-Smith made her first film appearance in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas with Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. 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). In 1998, she starred in the box-office flop Chairman of the Board , starring Carrot Top. Thorne-Smith was in Sorority Wars in 2009. In the early 1990s, Thorne-Smith had a relationship with Andrew Shue, her on-screen lover from Melrose Place. In June 2000, she got married to geneticist Andrew Conrad; the couple split in January 2001. Roger Fishman, the president of Zizo Group marketing and author of What I Know, was her husband. When she was 40 she had her first child on January 11 of 2008, to Jacob Emerson Fishman.