She is best known for playing Zooey Hernandez Frumpkis in Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Lydia Spring in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
[citation needed] Thornton began performing at the age of five[1] in dance, singing, piano, and theater at Place des Arts in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
[2][3] In her first television role, she played Angeline Bennett in the Hallmark Channel movie Let It Snow starring Candace Cameron Bure and Alan Thicke.
She played Zooey Hernandez Frumpkis for 26 episodes of Bravo's first scripted series, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Lydia Spring in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, alongside Elijah Wood.
[5] Initially cast as a guest star for the pilot episode,[6][7] she was promoted to a series regular role as Tacy Cassidy[8] in the TV adaptation of the Megan Abbott novel Dare Me.,[9] which premiered December 29, 2019.