| Rebecca De Mornay | |
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Rebecca de Mornay in 2006 |
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| Born | Rebecca J. Pearch August 29, 1959 (age 52)[1] Santa Rosa, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Rebecca George |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse | Bruce Wagner (16 December 1986 – 2 December 1990) Patrick O'Neal (1995 – 2002); 2 children |
| Parents | Wally George (deceased) Julie DeMornay (née Eager; deceased) |
Rebecca De Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business opposite Tom Cruise. Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.
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She was born Rebecca Pearch on August 29, 1959[2] in Santa Rosa, California. Her father was Wally George (né Pearch), a disc jockey at the time.[3]
When she was two, her parents divorced and at the age of five, she became known by her stepfather's surname, De Mornay. She has two step-brothers: Jonathan, a businessman, and Peter, a guitarist.[4] She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England,[5] but her high school degree was awarded in Kitzbühel, Austria. She later trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute.[4]
She had a two year relationship with actor Tom Cruise; the two lived together in New York after working together on Risky Business.[3] She later married, secondly, to Ryan O'Neal's son, Patrick O'Neal from 1995 to 2002, which union produced two daughters.[4] She had previously been married to Bruce Wagner.[6]
In 1992, she was in a relationship with Leonard Cohen and helped him arrange and produce music for his album The Future.[7][8]
Her film debut was a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 film One from the Heart. Soon thereafter came her star-making role as a hooker who seduces a high school student played by Tom Cruise in Risky Business. In 1986, she appeared with Starship's Mickey Thomas in the music video for the song "Sara". The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 15, 1986.
One of De Mornay's most commercially successful films came in the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. She also appeared in a 1988 remake of Roger Vadim's provocative And God Created Woman, Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991) and in 1993, starred as a defense lawyer in Sidney Lumet's murder drama Guilty as Sin.
In 2003, she guest-starred as primary antagonist in the first two episodes of season 2 of Boomtown. In 2004, she guest-starred as attorney Hannah Rose for the last few episodes of The Practice and the following year, had a brief role alongside Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers. De Mornay also starred in the 2007 drama American Venus.[2]
In June 2007, she appeared in the HBO series John From Cincinnati with a starring role as matriarch of a troubled Imperial Beach, California surfing family and the grandmother/guardian of a teen surfer on the brink of greatness. She appeared in Darren Lynn Bousman's Mother's Day (2010).[9]
The name "Rebecca De Mornay" is used for a character (played by African-American actress Sonya Eddy) in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Muffin Tops" and "The Bookstore".[10] Rebecca De Mornay has also been referenced in an episode of The Ricky Gervais Show co-starring with "Clive Warren" (a misnomer for Clive Owen) as part of a movie pitch by Karl Pilkington.
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| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1982 | One from the Heart | Understudy | as Rebecca de Mornay |
| 1983 | Risky Business | Lana | |
| 1983 | Testament | Cathy Pitkin | |
| 1985 | The Slugger's Wife (aka Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife) | Debby Palmer | sings |
| 1985 | Runaway Train | Sara | |
| 1985 | The Trip to Bountiful | Thelma | |
| 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Beauty | sings |
| 1988 | Feds | Elizabeth 'Elie' DeWitt | |
| 1988 | And God Created Woman | Robin Shea Moran | sings, plays guitar (??) |
| 1989 | Dealers | Anna Schuman | |
| 1991 | Backdraft | Helen McCaffrey | |
| 1992 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Peyton Flanders | MTV Movie Award for Best Villain |
| 1993 | Guilty as Sin | Jennifer Haines | |
| 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Lady de Winter | |
| 1995 | Never Talk to Strangers | Dr. Sarah Taylor | Also executive producer |
| 1996 | The Winner | Louise | as Rebecca DeMornay |
| 1999 | Thick as Thieves | Petrone | |
| 1999 | A Table for One (a.k.a. Wicked Ways) | Ruth Draper | |
| 2000 | The Right Temptation | Derian McCall | |
| 2003 | Identity | Caroline Suzanne | as Rebecca DeMornay |
| 2004 | Raise Your Voice | Aunt Nina | |
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Philaine | |
| 2005 | Wedding Crashers | Mrs. Kroeger | |
| 2007 | American Venus | Celia Lane | |
| 2008 | A Love Of Two Brains | Wife of Clive Warren | |
| 2007 | Music Within | Richard's Mom | |
| 2010 | Flipped | Patsy Loski | |
| 2010 | Mother's Day | Mother | |
| 2011 | Collar | Mayor Ramona 'Nomi' Billingsley | |
| 2011 | A Fonder Heart | Dr. Bach | |
| 2011 | Apartment 1303 3D | Marilyn | Filming |
| 2011 | Downers Grove | Girl with no name #3 | Rumoured |
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Tall Tales & Legends | Slew Foot Sue | Episode: "Pecos Bill" |
| 1986 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Claire Dupin | TV movie |
| 1990 | By Dawn's Early Light | Captain Moreau | TV movie; as Rebecca DeMornay |
| 1991 | An Inconvenient Woman | Flo | TV movie |
| 1993 | Blind Side | Linda Kaines | TV movie |
| 1994 | Getting Out | Arlene Holsclaw | TV movie |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Woman | Episode: "The Conversion" |
| 1997 | The Shining | Wendy Torrance | TV miniseries |
| 1998 | The Con | Barbara Beaton/Nancy Thoroughgood | TV movie; as Rebecca DeMornay |
| 1999 | Night Ride Home | Nora Mahler | TV movie |
| 1999 | ER | Elaine Nichols | Episode: "Leave It to Weaver" Episode: "Last Rites" Episode: "Greene with Envy" Episode: "Sins of the Father" Episode: "Truth & Consequences" |
| 2000 | Range of Motion | Lainey Berman | TV movie |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing | Kim McCormack | TV movie |
| 2002 | The Salem Witch Trials | Elizabeth Parris | TV movie |
| 2003 | No Place Like Home | TV movie | |
| 2003 | Boomtown | 'Sabrina Fithian' Jill Foster | Episode: "The Love of Money" Episode: "Inadmissable" |
| 2004 | The Practice | Hannah Rose | Episode: "The Firm" Episode: "Comings and Goings" Episode: "New Hoods on the Block" Episode: "Adjourned" (a.k.a. Cheers) |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Tessa McKellen | Episode: "Manipulated" |
| 2007 | John from Cincinnati | Cissy Yost | Episode: "His Visit: Day Five" Episode: "His Visit: Day Six" Episode: "His Visit: Day Seven" Episode: "His Visit: Day Eight" Episode: "His Visit: Day Nine" |
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| Year | Title | Role | Artist |
| 1985 | Sara | Sara | Starship |
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