Courtney Thorne-Smith

. Her credits include:. She has also starred in movies such as Summer School (1987), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), and Side Out (1990). In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre. Courtney made her first movie appearance in the 1986 feature film drama, Lucas. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Land Girls (1998), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). Her most notable television credit was playing Alison Parker on the nighttime drama Melrose Place (1992-1997). Other notable TV roles included Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal (1997-2000) and, currently, wife Cheryl on According to Jim. Having already worked for television, Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty.

She was born in San Francisco, California. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8, 1967) is an American actress. During her college years she already appeared in various student productions, mainly as part of Cambridge Footlights. Weisz read English Literature at Cambridge. Both her mother and her father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to England to escape persecution by the Nazis.

Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. Stealing Beauty (1996). The Land Girls (1998). The Mummy (1999).

Beautiful Creatures (2000). Enemy at the Gates (2001). The Mummy Returns (2001). About a Boy (2002).

Runaway Jury (2003).