Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay was born in Santa Rosa, California, United States on August 29th, 1959 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 65, Rebecca De Mornay biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; August 29, 1959) is an American actress and producer.
Lana in Risky Business was her breakthrough film role in 1983.
Sara is also known for her appearances in Runaway Train (1985), Thelma in Backdraft (1985), and Peyton Flanders in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992). The Three Musketeers (1993), Never Talk to Strangers (1995), Identity (2003), Lords of Dogtown, Wedding Crashers (both 2005), and Mother's Day (2010) are among her film credits.
Wendy Torrance appeared on television in The Shining's miniseries (1997) and as Dorothy Walker on Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015–19).
Early life
Rebecca Jane Pearch, the daughter of Julie and Wally George (né George Walter Pearch), a disc jockey and later television presenter, was born in Santa Rosa, California. According to the Associated Press, De Mornay's age is disputed, though it was revealed in Santa Rosa's Press Democrat that her parents had a daughter born on August 29, 1959 at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Eugenia Clinchard, a vain dancer and child film actress, appeared in vain.
Since her mother married Richard De Mornay in 1961, her parents divorced in 1960, and she took the surname of her stepfather, Richard De Mornay. She spent her youth in Pasadena, California, until her stepfather died of a stroke on March 2, 1962, aged 48. De Mornay and her stepbrother were raised by her mother, who moved the family to Europe, where they lived in several places. She attended Leiston, Suffolk, England, before completing her education at a private high school in Germany.
Personal life
In the early 1980s, De Mornay dated actor Harry Dean Stanton. They appeared on One From the Heart in 1981 and then discovered De Mornay and Tom Cruise's affair while filming Risky Business in 1982. In 1985, De Mornay and Cruise began.
Bruce Wagner, a writer from De Mornay, married writer Bruce Wagner on December 16, 1986; the couple divorced in 1990.
De Mornay dated and met Leonard Cohen for a brief period of time. Cohen co-produced Cohen's 1992 album The Future, which is also dedicated to her.
De Mornay was in a relationship with actor turned sportcaster Patrick O'Neal. They have two daughters together.
Career
By the time she was 16, De Mornay had an agent who was selling her songs to German rock & roll musicians, and she had written the theme song for a kung fu movie called Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death (1975). In 1980, De Mornay returned to the United States and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute to study acting. She made her film debut with 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. 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 No. 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). In 1990 she enacted the role of a USAF Captain pilot in HBO's successful Cold War film By the Dawn's Early Light. 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.
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.