Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress and director best known for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy, and Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck. Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves, Red Dawn, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dennis the Menace, and The Beverly Hillbillies. She played the title character in the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City and co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth, and Victoria Spencer in the CTV Series The Spencer Sisters.