Courtney Thorne-Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith (born November 8th 1997). Her best-known work is her roles in Melrose Place as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, Cheryl in According to Jim and her recurring role in Two and a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy. Thorne Smith was born in San Francisco and raised in Menlo Park (a suburb to San Francisco). Walter Smith was her father and Lora Thorne was her mother. Both were computer market researchers. Courtney was seven when her parents divorced. Courtney lived with both parents at various times. Jennifer is her older sister is an ad executive. She attended Menlo-Atherton high school located in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. When she was at high school, she was a member in the Ensemble Theater Company of Mill Valley. Thorne Smith was a part of her first movie appearance in 1986's Lucas with Winona Ryder and Corey Haim. In the late 1980s , she was also featured in a variety 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 was an actor in the box office chairman of the board, a failure, together with Carrot Top. In 2009 she was the lead in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith dated Andrew Shue in the 1990s. He was her screen boyfriend from Melrose Place. In June 2000, the actress was married geneticist Andrew Conrad; the couple split in January 2001. Roger Fishman (president of Zizo Group Zizo Group, a marketing company) and the author of What I Know was her wedding date. At the age of 40 she had her first child on January 11 in 2008, to Jacob Emerson Fishman.