Rebecca De Mornay
Known for: Acting
Born: August 29, 1959
Place of birth: Santa Rosa, California, USA
Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; 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.
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Filmography
52 movies · 19 TV shows, newest first
5.8
The Gentleman Thief
2026
5.2
Saint Clare
2025
5.6
Off the Record
2025
4.4
Peter Five Eight
2024
3.5
Angel Baby
2023
6.4
She Ball
2020
NR
Periphery
2018
5.8
I Am Wrath
2016
8.4
Lucifer
2016
7.5
Marvel's Jessica Jones
2015
NR
Collar
20152.0
Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky
2013
3.6
Apartment 1303 3D
2012
6.3
American Reunion
2012
6.5
Mother's Day
2010
7.7
Hawaii Five-0
2010
8.0
Flipped
2010
7.3
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
5.5
The Dream Is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business
2008
4.4
American Venus
2007
6.3
John from Cincinnati
2007
6.5
Music Within
2007
6.5
Wedding Crashers
2005
7.1
Lords of Dogtown
2005
6.6
Raise Your Voice
2004
7.6
NCIS
2003
7.2
Identity
2003
3.0
Salem Witch Trials
2003
5.3
A Girl Thing
2001
5.0
Range of Motion
2000
5.9
The Right Temptation
2000
9.0
Lost On Everest
2000
5.1
Wicked Ways
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
6.0
Thick as Thieves
1999
5.8
Night Ride Home
1999
5.5
The Con
1998
6.3
The Shining
1997
7.6
The Practice
1997
4.6
The Winner
1996
5.4
Never Talk to Strangers
1995
NR
Lo + plus
1995
7.7
The Outer Limits
1995
7.8
ER
1994
5.2
Getting Out
1994
6.4
The Three Musketeers
1993
5.7
Guilty as Sin
1993
5.4
Blind Side
1993
6.9
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
6.7
Backdraft
1991
5.8
An Inconvenient Woman
1991
6.5
By Dawn's Early Light
1990
5.6
Dealers
1989
5.8
Feds!
1988
4.3
And God Created Woman
1988
6.9
Tanner '88
1988
6.2
Beauty and the Beast
1987
6.0
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1986
NR
Pecos Bill
1986
7.2
The Trip to Bountiful
1985
7.0
Runaway Train
1985
6.0
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
3.7
The Slugger's Wife
1985
6.4
Testament
1983
6.6
Risky Business
1983
5.9
One from the Heart
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
6.0
Spinal Tap: The Final Tour
1981
7.0
NOVA
1974
NR
Giving Thanks
—NR
The Up and Comer
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