BACK IN TIME
Back To The Future legend Lea Thompson, 62, looks ageless as she poses 39 years after playing Marty McFly’s mum in movie
She has also appeared in the hit comedy The Goldbergs
BACK To The Future legend Lea Thompson showed off her ageless looks 39 years after playing Marty McFly's mum in the hit movie.
Lea Thompson, 62, played past, present, and future versions of Marty's mother, Lorraine Baines-McFly.
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The actress took to social media to celebrate the season finale of US sitcom The Spencer Sisters last month.
It follows police officer Darby Spencer and her mystery novelist mother Victoria Spencer, who is played by Lea, as partners in a private detective agency.
Lea looked incredible in a three-quarter jumpsuit, with an orange and white longline jacket and nude platform heels.
Lea wore her bouncy auburn tresses in loose curls and finished her look with flawless makeup, including a rouge lip and cheek.
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The star has kept fans updated with her career and family life.
She often shares snaps of her stylish wardrobe, which includes a ruby red suit, a green co-ord and glitzy red carpet dresses.
Back To The Future became the highest grossing film of 1985.
In the 1955 timeline, she becomes infatuated with Marty after he’s knocked down by a car which was meant to hit future dad George - meaning the very existence of the family is at threat.
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After the movie, Lia starred in SpaceCamp and the bizarre 1996 flop Howard the Duck, which saw her join forces with a life-sized bird to save the world from an alien attack.
Critically slammed, Lea has since claimed it has cult status and says she meets fans at conventions for Back to the Future.
"I sit there and I meet the fans, and a good one-third of them say 'I am the only person who liked 'Howard the Duck'. It's hilarious," she says.
The actress reprised the role of Lorraine in both Back to the Future sequels and had the title role in the award-winning sitcom Caroline in the City, from 1995 to 1999.
She has also appeared in the hit comedy The Goldbergs, as well as playing Marmee in the 2018 movie Little Women.
In 2014, she made the quarter finals of Dancing with the Stars, paired with former Strictly champ Artem Chigvintsev.
Married to Pretty in Pink director Howard Deutch, since 1989, she has two daughters, Madelyn and Zoey Deutch, who are both actors.
The film, which saw teenager Marty go back in time to 1955 and accidentally scupper his own parents’ romance, spawned two sequels, an animated series and multiple stage musicals.
Marty played by Michael J.Fox has spent his life raising awareness of Parkinson’s after his diagnosis at 29.
But the actor fears he won't make it to his 80th birthday as his battle with the disease worsens.
In a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Michael admitted: "I've been thinking about the mortality of it… I’m not gonna be 80."
He added: “I’m not going to lie, it's getting hard, it's getting harder.
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"Every day is tougher. But, but that's — that's the way it is."
After his diagnosis, he set up the Michael J. Fox Foundation to improve the lives of others at risk of the disease.
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