Rebecca De Mornay
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| Rebecca De Mornay | |
| Born | Rebecca Jane Pearch August 29, 1959 Santa Rosa, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Patrick O'Neal(1995-2002) Bruce Wagner(1989-1991) |
Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch on August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. Her breakout film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.
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[edit] Biography
De Mornay was born in Santa Rosa, California. Her grandmother was child actress Eugenia Clinchard and her father was the conservative radio and television commentator Wally George (born George Walter Pearch). De Mornay was raised by her mother, Julie (née Eagar), and stepfather Richard De Mornay (he died when she was 5). As a child her name was changed from Pearch to DeMornay. She has younger half brother Peter DeMornay. She grew up in France[citation needed], England[citation needed], and Austria. She went to the progressive Summerhill School in England and earned her high school degree summa cum laude from German-speaking St. Johann in Tirol in the Austrian Alps. From this she is fluent in German and French. DeMornay has many half sisters and half brothers she has never met.
[edit] Personal life
De Mornay lived with Tom Cruise for two and a half years after they met in Risky Business. In 1989 she married and divorced novelist/screenwriter Bruce Wagner in one year. In the early 1990s she was linked romantically to Leonard Cohen; some reports say they were engaged. She is credited as a producer and arranger on his album The Future (1992).
From 1995 to 2002 she was married to Ryan O'Neal's son Patrick O'Neal (sportscaster). They have two daughters, Sophia (born 1997) and Veronica (born 2001).
[edit] Career
De Mornay's film debut was a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1982). 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 (1992). She also appeared in Ron Howard's Backdraft, in a remake of Roger Vadim's provocative And God Created Woman and in the starring role as a defense lawyer in Sidney Lumet's murder drama Guilty as Sin.
In 2004, the actress guest-starred as attorney Hannah Rose for the final 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[1].
In June 2007, she appeared in the HBO series John From Cincinnati in a starring role as matriarch of a troubled Imperial Beach, California surfing family, and as grandmother/guardian to a teen surfer on the brink of greatness.
The name "Rebecca DeMornay" is used for a character (played by Sonya Eddy) in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Muffin Tops" and "The Bookstore" [2].
[edit] Filmography
- One from the Heart (1982)
- Testament (1983)
- Risky Business (1983)
- Runaway Train (1985)
- Sara (Starship music video) (1985)
- The Slugger's Wife (aka Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife)
- The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
- Beauty and the Beast (1987)
- Feds (1988)
- And God Created Woman (1988)
- Dealers (1989)
- By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
- Backdraft (1991)
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
- Blind Side (1993)
- The Three Musketeers (1993)
- Guilty as Sin (1993)
- Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
- The Winner (1996)
- The Shining (TV miniseries) (1997)
- The Con (1998)
- A Table for One (aka Wicked Ways) (1999)
- Thick as Thieves (1999)
- The Right Temptation (2000)
- The Salem Witch Trials (2001)
- Identity (2003)
- Raise Your Voice (2004)
- Lords of Dogtown (2005)
- Wedding Crashers (2005)
- American Venus (2007)
- Music Within (2007)
