Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8 1987, died in 1967) is an American actress from the United States. Her most notable roles include Alison Parker on Melrose Place and Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal. She also appeared as Cheryl in According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy in Two and a Half Men. Thorne-Smith was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Menlo Park, a suburb south of San Francisco. Walter Smith was her father. Lora Thorne was her mom and a therapist. They divorced when Courtney was just seven, and she lived with both parents in various times. Jennifer her elder sister is an advertising executive. She attended the Menlo-Atherton High school located in Atherton, California and graduated Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley in 1985. She also performed for the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley while in high school. Thorne Smith's first film appearance was in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas. She was accompanied by Winona Ryder (Corey Haim) and Charlie Sheen. In the late 1980s , she also appeared in a variety of films that included Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II (Nerds in Paradise) (1987), Summer School (1987) and Side Out(90). In 1998, she appeared in the box-office flop Chairman of the board with Carrot Top. In 2009, she was a star in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith has dated Andrew Shue in the 1990s. He was her screen love 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. On the 11th of January, 2008, aged 40 she gave birth to her son, Jacob Emerson Fishman.