Courtney Thorne Smith Bio

American actress Courtney Thorne Smith was born on the 8th November 1967. Her most notable role is Alison Parker on Melrose Place and Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal. She also starred as Cheryl in According to Jim and Lyndsey McElroy on Two and a Half Men. Thorne-Smith was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and was raised in Menlo Park, a suburb south of San Francisco. Walter Smith was her father and Lora Thorne was her mother. Both were computer market researchers. They divorced when Courtney was just seven, and she lived with both parents in different times. She has an older sister, Jennifer, who 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. In high school, she took part in performances with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley. Thorne Smith made her first film role in the 1986 film Lucas with Winona Ryder and Corey Haim. Thorne-Smith was also a part of a number of movies in the late 1980s, including Welcome to 18 (1986), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), Summer School (1987), and Side Out (1990). She starred with Carrot Top in 1998's box office failure, Chairman of the Board. In 2009 she appeared in Sorority Wars. Thorne Smith was the lover of Andrew Shue from Melrose Place in the early 1990s. The actress was married to geneticist Andrew Conrad in June 2000. They divorced in 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 the morning of January 11 of 2008 to Jacob Emerson Fishman.