Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith (born November 8 in 1967). She is best known for her roles as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, Cheryl in According to Jim and her regular 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-based market researchers. They divorced at the age of seven. Courtney was just seven. She lived with both parents at different times. She has a younger sister, Jennifer, who is an advertising executive. She attended Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California and graduated Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley in 1985. In the high school, she also was a member of the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley. Thorne Smith made her debut film appearance in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas with Winona Ryder Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. In the latter half of the 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 starred in the box-office flop Chairman of the board with Carrot Top. She also appeared in Sorority Wars in 2009. Thorne Smith was a fan of Andrew Shue from Melrose Place in the early 1990s. In June 2000, she married Andrew Conrad, a geneticist. The couple separated in January 2001. Roger Fishman (president of Zizo Group Zizo Group, a marketing company) and author of What I Know was her wedding date. At the age of 40, she gave birth on the morning of January 11 of 2008, to Jacob Emerson Fishman.