Rebecca De Mornay
Birthday
1959/08/29 (65 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Santa Rosa, California, USA
Also know as
Rebecca Jane Pearch , ربکا د مورنی
Biography
Rebecca De Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business opposite Tom Cruise. Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991 and her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
Acting
(1993) The Three Musketeers
as Milady
(2003) Identity
as Caroline Suzanne
(1991) Backdraft
as Helen McCaffrey
(1993) Guilty as Sin
as Jennifer Haines
(1990) By Dawn's Early Light
as Moreau
(1992) The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
as Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders
(1986) The Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Claire Dupin
(1985) Runaway Train
as Sara
(2005) Wedding Crashers
as Mrs. Kroeger
(1988) Feds
as Ellis DeWitt
(2005) Lords of Dogtown
as Philaine
(1983) Risky Business
as Lana
(2004) Raise Your Voice
as Nina Fletcher
(2007) Music Within
as Richard's Mom
(1993) Blind Side
as Lynn Kaines
(1988) And God Created Woman
as Robin Shea
(2010) Flipped
as Pasty Loski
(1985) The Trip to Bountiful
as Thelma
(1999) Thick as Thieves
as Petrone
(1987) Beauty and the Beast
as Beauty
(1995) Never Talk to Strangers
as Dr. Sarah Alison Taylor
Giving Thanks
as Aunt Theodora
(2000) The Right Temptation
as Derian McCall
(1989) Dealers
as Anna Schuman
(1985) The Slugger's Wife
as Debby Palmer
(2010) Mother's Day
as Natalie 'Mother' Koffin
(1986) Pecos Bill
as Rose 'Slew Foot Sue' Peasley
(1996) The Winner
as Louise
(1998) The Con
as Barbara Beaton / Nancy Thoroughgood
(2000) Range of Motion
as Lainey Berman
(2001) A Girl Thing
as Kim McCormack
(2012) Apartment 1303 3D
as Maddie Slate
(2024) Peter Five Eight
as Brenda
(1999) Wicked Ways
as Ruth Draper
(2007) American Venus
as Celia
(1999) Night Ride Home
as Nora Mahler
(2024) Off the Record
as Kate
(2024) Saint Clare
as Arlene 'Gigi' Newberry
(1983) Testament
as Cathy Pitkin
(2002) Salem Witch Trials
as Elizabeth Parris
(2016) I Am Wrath
as Vivian Hill
(1994) Getting Out
as Arlene Holsclaw
(2015) Collar
as Ramona Billingsley
(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2020) She Ball
as Aggie
(2008) The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business
as Self
(2018) Periphery
as Vi Warner
(2013) Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky
as Sara (archive footage)
(1982) One from the Heart
as Understudy
(2012) American Reunion
as Finch's Mom (uncredited)
The Up and Comer
as ---
(2007) John from Cincinnati
as Cissy Yost
(1997) The Shining
as Wendy Torrance
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Tessa McKellen
(2016) Lucifer
as Penelope
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Woman
(1988) Tanner '88
as Self
(1974) NOVA
as Narrator
(1997) The Practice
as Hannah Rose
(2016) Lucifer
as Penelope Decker
(2015) Marvel's Jessica Jones
as Dorothy Walker
(1991) An Inconvenient Woman
as Flo
(2009) Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
(1985) Tall Tales & Legends
as Rose 'Slew Foot Sue' Peasley
(1995) Lo + plus
as Self - Guest
(1994) ER
as Elaine Nichols
(2010) Hawaii Five-0
as Barbara Cotchin