Rebecca De Mornay
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
The Three Musketeers
1993
Identity
2003
Backdraft
1991
Guilty as Sin
1993
By Dawn's Early Light
1990
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1986
Runaway Train
1985
Wedding Crashers
2005
Feds!
1988
Lords of Dogtown
2005
Risky Business
1983
Raise Your Voice
2004
Music Within
2007
Blind Side
1993
And God Created Woman
1988
Flipped
2010
The Trip to Bountiful
1985
Thick as Thieves
1999
Beauty and the Beast
1987
Never Talk to Strangers
1995
Giving Thanks
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The Right Temptation
2000
Dealers
1989
The Slugger's Wife
1985
Mother's Day
2010
Pecos Bill
1986
The Winner
1996
The Con
1998
Range of Motion
2000
Apartment 1303 3D
2012
Peter Five Eight
2024
Wicked Ways
1999
American Venus
2007
Night Ride Home
1999
Off the Record
2025
Saint Clare
2025
Testament
1983
Salem Witch Trials
2002
I Am Wrath
2016
Getting Out
1994
Collar
2015
She Ball
2020
The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business
2008
Periphery
2018
Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky
2013
One from the Heart
1982
American Reunion
2012
The Up and Comer
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Angel Baby
2023
Spinal Tap: The Final Tour
1981
Lost On Everest
2000
John from Cincinnati
2007
The Shining
1997
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Lucifer
2016
The Outer Limits
1995
Tanner '88
1988
NOVA
1974
The Practice
1997
Lucifer
2016
Marvel's Jessica Jones
2015
An Inconvenient Woman
1991
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Lo + plus
1995
ER
1994
Hawaii Five-0
2010
NCIS
2003
A Girl Thing
2001
Salem Witch Trials
2003