REBECCA DE MORNAY
Name: Rebecca De Mornay
Birth name: Rebecca J. Pearch
Born: 29 August 1959 Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
Rebecca De Mornay (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.
De Mornay was born Rebecca J. Pearch in Santa Rosa, California. Her father was
the conservative radio and television commentator Wally George (born George
Walter Pearch). De Mornay was raised by her mother, Julie (nee 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).
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.
Name: Rebecca De Mornay
Birth name: Rebecca J. Pearch
Born: 29 August 1959 Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
Rebecca De Mornay (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.
De Mornay was born Rebecca J. Pearch in Santa Rosa, California. Her father was
the conservative radio and television commentator Wally George (born George
Walter Pearch). De Mornay was raised by her mother, Julie (nee 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).
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.