Rebecca De Mornay

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

The New York Times gives her alternative name as Rebecca George and her date of birth as August 29, 1961, but her exact date of birth is unclear and there are various dates quoted throughout the press. During the early years of her life, she lived in California; her father wasWally George, who was a disc jockey at the time. When she was two her parents divorced and at the age of five she became known by her stepfather's surname. She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England.Her high school degree was awarded in Kitzbühel, Austria. She later trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

De Mornay had a relationship with Tom Cruise. They lived together in New York after working together on Risky Business.

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

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 inSidney 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.

In June 2007,she appeared in the HBO series John From Cincinnati with a starring role as matriarch of a troubled Imperial Beach, Californiasurfing family and grandmother/guardian to a teen surfer on the brink of greatness. She portrayed the mother in Darren Lynn Bousman'sMother's Day.

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".

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)^{[dated info]}
• A Love of Two Brains (Unannounced)

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