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Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; August 29, 1959)^[1][2] is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

Contents  [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

[edit]Early 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 James De Mornay,^{[3][original research?]} and her surname was changed from Pearch to De Mornay in her childhood. She has a billionaire^{[3][original research?]} elder brother of one year, businessman Dr. Jonathan De Mornay, and a younger brother, guitarist Peter De Mornay.

She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England^[4] and earned her high school degree summa cum laude from German-speaking St. Johann in Tirol^{[clarification needed]} in theAustrian Alps. She is fluent in German and French.^{[citation needed]}

[edit]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 byTom 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 Ron Howard's Backdraft, a remake of Roger Vadim's provocativeAnd God Created Woman and in a 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.^[5]

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 DeMornet" is used for a character (played by Sonya Eddy) in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Muffin Tops" and "The Bookstore".^[6] She portrays the mother in Darren Lynn Bousman's Mother's Day.^[7]

[edit]Personal life

De Mornay dated Tom Cruise for two years after they met in Risky Business. In 1989, she married and divorced novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner. 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, seven years her junior. They have two daughters, Sophia (born 1997) and Veronica (born 2001).

[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, 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)
• A Table for One (aka Wicked Ways) (1999)
• Thick as Thieves (1999)
• The Right Temptation (2000)
• 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)

[edit]References

1. ^ ^a b California Births, 1905 - 1995. Family Tree Legends Records Collection (Online Database). Pearl Street Software, 2004-2005. Sourced from California Birth Index. Retrieved on 2010-08-29.
2. ^ ^a b Most other online sources also give 1959 as the birth year. About a quarter say 1962; and some say 1961.
3. ^ ^a b family^{[original research?]}
4. ^ Smithers, Rebecca (2000-03-24). "Radical boarding school escapes closure threat". guardian.co.uk (London: Guardian News and Media Limited). Retrieved 2010-08-30.
5. ^ American Venus at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2010-08-30.
6. ^ Sonya Eddy at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2010-08-30.
7. ^ Rebecca De Mornay at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2010-08-30.