REBECCA DE MORNAY

'Rebecca de Mornay', born 'Rebecca J. Pearch' (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. Her breakout film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in ''Risky Business''.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Partial filmography

Footnotes

External links

Biography

Early life

De Mornay was born in Santa Rosa, California. Her birth father was the conservative radio and television commentator Wally George (born George Walter Pearch). Her parents' relationship was stormy and they were estranged for the fifteen years before his death. De Mornay was raised by her mother, Julie Eagar, and stepfather, Richard De Mornay. She grew up in France and went to college in the United Kingdom. She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York (which also at one time included veterans Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken).

Career

De Mornay's film debut came with a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's ''One from the Heart'' (1982). Despite the subsequent success of ''Risky Business'', De Mornay's most commercially successful film to date was ''The Hand That Rocks the Cradle'' (1992). In 2004, she 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''.
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.

Personal life

De Mornay lived with Tom Cruise for two-and-a-half years after they met in ''Risky Business''. In the early 1990s De Mornay was linked romantically to Leonard Cohen. She is credited as a producer and arranger on his critically acclaimed album ''The Future'' (1992). In the 80's she was briefly married to noted novelist/screenwriter Bruce Wagner. The two divorced after under two years.
De Mornay is currently married to sportscaster Patrick O'Neal, whose father is Ryan O'Neal. They have two daughters and five dogs.

Partial filmography

★ ''One from the Heart'' (1982)

★ ''Testament'' (1983)

★ ''Risky Business'' (1983)

★ ''Runaway Train'' (1985)

★ ''Sara (Jefferson 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 film)'' (1987), voice of Beauty

★ ''Feds'' (1988)

★ ''And God Created Woman'' (1988)

★ ''Dealers'' (1989)

★ ''By Dawn's Early Light'' (1990)

★ ''Backdraft'' (1991)

★ ''The Hand That Rocks the Cradle'' (1992)

★ ''The Three Musketeers'' (1993)

★ ''Guilty as Sin'' (1993)

★ ''Never Talk to Strangers'' (1995)

★ ''The Winner'' (1996)

★ ''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)

★ ''Lords of Dogtown'' (2004)

★ ''Raise Your Voice'' (2004)

★ ''Wedding Crashers'' (2006)

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