Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actor Courtney Thorne Smith was born November 8, 1967. Her most famous roles include Alison Parker on Melrose Place and Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal. She was also on the show 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 and Lora Thorne was her mother. Both were computer-based market researchers. Courtney aged seven years old at the time, divorced her father, Walter Smith. She lived with both of her parents, at various times. Jennifer her older sister, is an advertising executive. She attended Menlo Atherton High School, situated in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. While she was in high school, she played with Ensemble Theater Company of Mill Valley. Thorne Smith's first appearance in a movie was in the feature film drama Lucas. She was accompanied by Winona Ryder (Corey Haim), and Charlie Sheen. Thorne-Smith was also a part of several films in the late 1980s, like Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Summer School (1987) and Side Out (1990). She was a part of Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, the Chairman of the Board. In 2009, she appeared in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith was a lover of Andrew Shue from Melrose Place in the early 1990s. In June 2000, she got married to geneticist Andrew Conrad; the couple separated in January 2001. Roger Fishman, the president of Zizo Group marketing and author of What I Know, was her husband. At 40 years old, she gave birth on January 11, 2008, to Jacob Emerson Fishman.