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Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay
	Rebecca de Mornay in 2006
Born	California, U.S.
Years active	1983–present

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Rebecca De Mornay is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

Personal life

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 English mother, Angela, and her stepfather, Peter De Mornay, and her surname was changed from Pearch to De Mornay in her childhood. She has one older brother, multi-millionaire businessman Jonathan De Mornay. She also has a younger brother named Peter De Mornay, a talented guitarist.

De Morney had a relationship with Tom Cruise and they lived together in New York after working together on Risky Business.^[1]

She was married to Ryan O'Neal's son Patrick; they have had two daughters together.^[2] She had previously been married to Bruce Wagner.^[3] In 1992 she was in a relationship with Leonard Cohen and helped him arrange and produce music for his album The Future.^[4]^[5]

Career

De Mornay's 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 2004 De Mornay 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.^[6]

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 grandmother/guardian to a teen surfer on the brink of greatness. She portrayed the mother in Darren Lynn Bousman's Mother's Day.^[7]

Cultural references

The name "Rebecca De Mornay" is used for a character (played by Sonya Eddy) in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Muffin Tops" and "The Bookstore".^[8]

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, 1985)
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)
Thick as Thieves (1998)
A Table for One (aka Wicked Ways) (1999)
The Right Temptation (2000)
A Girl Thing (2001)
The Salem Witch Trials (2001)
Range of Motion (2001)
Identity (2003)
Raise Your Voice (2004)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
American Venus (2007)
Music Within (2007)
Flipped (2010)
Mother's Day (unreleased)^{[needs update]}

References

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^ "Still Holding, Bruce Wagner - book review". New York Magazine. November 3, 2003. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
^ "Leonard Cohen - album review - The Future". Rolling Stone. February 1, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
^ "Leonard Cohen - The Future". Discogs. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
^ American Venus at IMDb Template:Accessdate
^ Rebecca De Mornay at IMDb Template:Accessdate
^ Sonya Eddy at IMDb Template:Accessdate

External links

Rebecca De Mornay at IMDb

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[3] "Still Holding, Bruce Wagner - book review". New York Magazine. November 3, 2003. Retrieved December 11, 2010.

[4] "Leonard Cohen - album review - The Future". Rolling Stone. February 1, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2010.

[5] "Leonard Cohen - The Future". Discogs. Retrieved December 11, 2010.

[6] American Venus at IMDb Template:Accessdate

[7] Rebecca De Mornay at IMDb Template:Accessdate

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 ==Personal life==
+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 English mother, Angela, and her stepfather, Peter De Mornay, and her surname was changed from Pearch to De Mornay in her childhood. She has one older brother, multi-millionaire businessman Jonathan De Mornay. She also has a younger brother named Peter De Mornay, a talented guitarist.
-The ''New York Times'' gives her alternative name as '''Rebecca George''' and  her date of birth as August 29, 1961,<ref name="nyt"/> but her exact date of birth is unclear and there are various different dates quoted throughout the press.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-11-07-de-mornay-arrest_N.htm|title=Rebecca De Mornay reportedly arrested for DUI|publisher=[[USA Today]]|date=July 11, 2007|agency=[[Associated Press]]|quote=Associated Press records indicate De Mornay's age is 45, while some other sources give it as 48. |accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref>  During the early years of her life, she lived in California; her father was [[Wally George]], who was a [[disc jockey]] at the time.<ref name="people">{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087128,00.html|title=Rabble-Rouser Wally George Is the New Pitchman and Great Right Hope of TV Squawk Shows|first=Joshua |last=Hammer| publisher=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=21|issue=8|date=Februay 27, 1984|accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref>  When she was two her parents divorced and at the age of five she became known by her stepfather's [[surname]].<ref name="nyt">{{cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/17592/Rebecca-De-Mornay|title=Rebecca De Morney - about this person|publisher=[[New York Times]]|accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref> She attended the independent [[Summerhill School]] in [[Leiston]], [[Suffolk]], England.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/mar/24/schools.news1 | title = Radical boarding school escapes closure threat | first = Rebecca | last = Smithers | date = 2000-03-24 | work = [[guardian.co.uk]] | location = London | publisher = Guardian News and Media Limited | accessdate = 2010-08-30 }}</ref> Her high school degree was awarded in [[Kitzbühel]], Austria. She later trained as an actress in New York at the [[Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute|Lee Strausberg Institute]].<ref name="nyt"/>
 De Morney had a relationship with [[Tom Cruise]] and they lived together in [[New York]] after working together on ''[[Risky Business]]''.<ref name="people"/>