Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay | |
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 De Mornay in 2006 | |
| Born | Rebecca Jane Pearch August 29, 1959 Santa Rosa, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Rebecca George |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, producer |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse | |
| Partner | Patrick O'Neal (1995–2002) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Wally George Julie Pearch |
Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; August 29, 1959)[1] is an American actress and producer. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she starred as Lana in Risky Business. She is known for her role as Debby Huston in the Neil Simon film The Slugger's Wife. De Mornay is also known for her roles in Runaway Train (1985), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Backdraft (1991), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992).
Her other film credits include The Three Musketeers (1993), Never Talk to Strangers (1995), Identity (2003), Lords of Dogtown, Wedding Crashers (both 2005), and Mother's Day (2010). On television, she starred as Wendy Torrance in the miniseries adaptation of The Shining (1997), and as Dorothy Walker on Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015–19).
Early life
De Mornay was born Rebecca Jane Pearch in Santa Rosa, California, in 1959[2] (although many sources erroneously list 1961 or 1962).[3][4][5][6][7] Her parents were Julie (née Eagar)[8] and Wally George (né George Walter Pearch), a disc jockey and later television host.[9] Her paternal grandmother was vaudeville performer and child film actress Eugenia Clinchard.[citation needed]
Her parents divorced when she was two years old.[10] She took her stepfather's surname, De Mornay, when she was five.[citation needed] She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England.[11] She later trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute.[12]
Career
De Mornay's film debut was a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's 1981 film One from the Heart, which starred her real-life partner at the time, Harry Dean Stanton.[13][14] Her star-making role came two years later in Risky Business (1983), as a call girl who seduces a high-school student played by Tom Cruise. In 1985, she played the title role in The Slugger's Wife opposite Michael O'Keefe, and co-starred in The Trip to Bountiful and Runaway Train, both of which were nominated for several Academy Awards. That same year, 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.
She also appeared in Roger Vadim's provocative 1988 remake of And God Created Woman, and as the wife of Kurt Russell's character in Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991). One of De Mornay's most commercially successful films was the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, released in 1992. She starred as a defense lawyer in Sidney Lumet's murder drama Guilty as Sin (1993) with Don Johnson. Then she appeared in the 1995 drama film Never Talk to Strangers opposite Antonio Banderas, for which she was also the executive producer.
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.[1]
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).
In 2012, De Mornay played the role of Finch's mom in the movie American Reunion where she portrayed an attractive older woman and a love interest of Stifler. From 2015 to 2019, she appeared in Marvel's Jessica Jones as Trish Walker's abusive mother.[15]
Personal life
De Mornay married writer Bruce Wagner on December 16, 1986; they divorced in 1990.[16]
De Mornay subsequently dated and was briefly engaged to singer Leonard Cohen.[17][18] She co-produced Cohen's 1992 album The Future, which is also dedicated to her with an inscription that quotes Rebecca's coming to the well from the chapter 24 Book of Genesis[19] and giving drink to Eliezer's camels, after he prayed for the help.[20]
De Mornay had a relationship with actor turned sportcaster Patrick O'Neal that produced two daughters: Sophia (born November 16, 1997) and Veronica (born March 31, 2001).[21][22]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | One from the Heart | Understudy | Credited as Rebecca de Mornay |
| 1983 | Risky Business | Lana | |
| 1983 | Testament | Cathy Pitkin | |
| 1985 | The Slugger's Wife | Debby Palmer | |
| 1985 | Runaway Train | Sara | |
| 1985 | The Trip to Bountiful | Thelma | |
| 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Beauty | |
| 1988 | Feds | Elizabeth "Ellie" DeWitt | |
| 1988 | And God Created Woman | Robin Shea Moran | |
| 1989 | Dealers | Anna Schuman | |
| 1990 | By Dawn's Early Light | Captain Moreau, USAF | |
| 1991 | Backdraft | Helen McCaffrey | |
| 1992 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders | MTV Movie Award for Best Villain |
| 1993 | Guilty as Sin | Jennifer Haines | |
| 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Milady de Winter | |
| 1995 | Never Talk to Strangers | Dr. Sarah Taylor | Executive producer |
| 1996 | The Winner | Louise | Credited as Rebecca DeMornay |
| 1999 | Thick as Thieves | Petrone | |
| 1999 | A Table for One | Ruth Draper | |
| 2000 | The Right Temptation | Derian McCall | |
| 2003 | Identity | Caroline Suzanne | Credited as Rebecca DeMornay |
| 2004 | Raise Your Voice | Aunt Nina | |
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Philaine | |
| 2005 | Wedding Crashers | Mrs. Kroeger | |
| 2007 | American Venus | Celia Lane | |
| 2007 | Music Within | Mrs. Pimental | |
| 2010 | Flipped | Patsy Loski | |
| 2010 | Mother's Day | Natalie "Mother" Koffin | |
| 2011 | A Fonder Heart | Dr. Bach | |
| 2011 | Apartment 1303 3D | Maddie Slate | |
| 2012 | American Reunion | Rachel Finch | |
| 2015 | Collar | Mayor Ramona 'Nomi' Billingsley | |
| 2016 | I Am Wrath | Vivian Hill | |
| 2018 | Periphery | Vi Warner | |
| 2020 | She Ball | Aggie |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Tall Tales & Legends | Slew Foot Sue | Episode: "Pecos Bill" |
| 1986 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986 film) | Claire Dupin | Television film |
| 1990 | By Dawn's Early Light | Captain Moreau | Television film |
| 1991 | An Inconvenient Woman | Flo March | Television film |
| 1993 | Blind Side | Linda Kaines | Television film |
| 1994 | Getting Out | Arlene Holsclaw | Television film |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Woman | Episode: "The Conversion". Also directed the episode. |
| 1997 | The Shining | Wendy Torrance | Miniseries |
| 1998 | The Con | Barbara Beaton / Nancy Thoroughgood | Television film |
| 1999 | Night Ride Home | Nora Mahler | Television film |
| 1999 | ER | Elaine Nichols | 5 episodes |
| 2000 | Range of Motion | Lainey Berman | Television film |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing | Kim McCormack | Television film |
| 2002 | Salem Witch Trials | Elizabeth Parris | Television film |
| 2003 | No Place Like Home | Television film | |
| 2003 | Boomtown | Sabrina Fithian / Jill Foster | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | The Practice | Hannah Rose | 4 episodes |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Tessa McKellen | Episode: "Manipulated" |
| 2007 | John from Cincinnati | Cissy Yost | 5 episodes |
| 2013 | Hatfields & McCoys | Mary Hatfield | Unaired pilot |
| 2013 | Hawaii Five-0 | Barbara Cotchin | Episode: "A ia la aku" |
| 2015–2019 | Jessica Jones | Dorothy Walker | 13 episodes |
| 2016 | Lucifer | Penelope Decker | 2 episodes |
Music videos
| Year | Artist | Song | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Starship | "Sara" | Sara |
References
- ^ a b "Rebecca De Mornay reportedly arrested for DUI". USA Today. Associated Press. July 11, 2007. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
Associated Press records indicate De Mornay's age is 45, while some other sources give it as 48.
- ^ "Rebecca J Pearch - Sonoma County Birth Records". familytreenow.com. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ "washingtonpost.com: Rebecca De Mornay Filmography". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ "De Mornay, Rebecca 1961 (?)". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ Kamarauskas, K. "Screenshots and Info on Actress Rebecca De Mornay". thespiannet.com. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ "Rebecca De Mornay Filmography and Movies - Fandango". fandango.com. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ Thomson, David (October 26, 2010). "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Completely Updated and Expanded". Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – via Google Books.
- ^ "Person Details for Rebecca J Pearch, "California, Birth Index, 1905-1995" — FamilySearch.org". Familysearch.org. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
- ^ Hammer, Joshua (February 27, 1984). "Rabble-Rouser Wally George Is the New Pitchman and Great Right Hope of TV Squawk Shows". People. 21 (8). Retrieved 2010-12-11.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000360/bio
- ^ Smithers, Rebecca (March 24, 2000). "Radical boarding school escapes closure threat". The Guardian. London: Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
- ^ "Rebecca De Morney — about this person". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
- ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (2013-09-10). "Harry Dean Stanton Looks at the Actor's Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
- ^ "Notes on the New Harry Dean Stanton Documentary". vice.com. September 20, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ Abad-Santos, Alex (November 23, 2015). "In Marvel's Jessica Jones, women get stuff done while men just talk about women". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "Still Holding, Bruce Wagner — book review". New York Magazine. November 3, 2003. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
- ^ King, Randall (August 29, 2009). "Rebecca De Mornay joins film's killer cast". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ^ Cohen, Leonard (June 1, 1993). "Knowing Rebecca de Mornay Like Only Leonard Cohen Can". Interview magazine. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
- ^ Cohen, Leonard (2012). "The Future". A Record by Leonard Cohen. Leonardcohencroatia.com. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
- ^ The Online Jewish Book Community (June 2006). "Book of Longing (Review)". Reviews & Articles. www.leonardcohencroatia.com. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
- ^ "Passages". Archived from the original on 2016-04-03.
- ^ "Star Tracks". Archived from the original on 2016-04-03.
Further reading
- "The Key to Rebecca". Saturday Review. 12 (1): 30–34. January–February 1986.
- Tykus, Michael J. (2000). "Rebecca de Mornay". Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Vol. 29. Gale Research Co. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7876-3188-8.
- Room, Adrian (2010). "Rebecca de Mornay". Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins (5th ed.). McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-7864-4373-4.
- Segrave, Kerry; Martin, Linda (1990). "Rebecca de Mornay". The Post-Feminist Hollywood Actress: biographies and filmographies of stars born after 1939. McFarland & Co. pp. 265–269. ISBN 978-0-89950-387-5.
- Aylesworth, Thomas G.; Bowman, John S.; Fairbanks, Douglas (1992). "De Mornay, Rebecca". World Guide to Film Stars. Great Pond. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-56657-007-7.
- Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). "De Mornay, Rebecca". The International Who's Who of Women 2002 (3rd ed.). Routledge. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3.
- Riggs, Thomas, ed. (2005). "De MORNAY, Rebecca". Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide. Vol. 64. Gale / Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-7876-9037-3.
External links
- Rebecca De Mornay at IMDb
- Rebecca De Mornay at the TCM Movie Database
- Rebecca De Mornay at Rotten Tomatoes
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