Courtney Thorne-Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith (born November 8, 1967). Her most memorable roles include Alison Parker on Melrose Place and Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal. She also starred as Cheryl in According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy in Two and a Half Men. Thorne Smith was born in San Francisco and raised in Menlo Park (a suburb to San Francisco). Walter Smith was her father. Lora Thorne was her mom , as well as a Therapist. They divorced at the age of seven. Courtney was seven years old. She lived with both parents in various times. Jennifer is her older sister is an advertising executive. She attended the Menlo-Atherton High school, situated in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. In the high school, she participated in the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley. Thorne-Smith's first film appearance in the 1986 movie drama Lucas, alongside Winona Ryder Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. In the 1980s, she was a part of 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 appeared alongside Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, the Chairman of the Board. She also appeared in Sorority Wars in 2009. Thorne Smith was a friend of Andrew Shue from Melrose Place in the early 1990s. In June 2000, she got married to Andrew Conrad, a geneticist. The couple separated in the month of January. On January 1 in 2007, she wed Roger Fishman, president of the marketing company the Zizo Group and author of the book What I Know. At 40 years old she had her first child on January 11 of 2008 to Jacob Emerson Fishman.