Rebecca De Mornay

Rebecca De Mornay ( born August 29, 1959 in Santa Rosa, California as Rebecca Jane Pearch ) is an American actress and film producer.

Life and career

Rebecca De Mornay was born as the daughter of television talk Masters Wally George and his wife Julie. After her parents divorced she was adopted by her new stepfather Richard De Mornay. Richard De Mornay died when Rebecca was five years old. In a minibus mother with Rebecca and her younger brother traveled the world: Mexico, Jamaica, Europe. In Austria they lived six years, where Rebecca graduated in 1978 in St. Johann in Tirol. Rebecca was previously only sporadically to school, two years she attended the famous boarding school Summerhill in England. She learned to play guitar and dreamed of a rock career. At 21, she began her acting training in California, during which she attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. Besides, she worked in the studios and got so Francis Ford Coppola her first cameo in One from the Heart. The international breakthrough came in 1992 with her ​​starring role as a psychopathic nanny in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. De Mornay is fluent in English, French and German.

After relationships with the likes of Tom Cruise and Leonard Cohen in 1989 she married the writer Bruce Wagner. The marriage was divorced the following year. Her second marriage to sportscaster Patrick O'Neal (son of Ryan O'Neal ) lasted from 1995 to 2002 out of this. Marriage had two children.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Others

De Mornay played in the music video for the song Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears from the year 1986, a librarian and 1986 she appeared in the music video for the song Sara by Mickey Thomas Starship band.