Rebecca De Mornay

Rebecca De Mornay was born in 1959 in Santa Rosa, California, into a family that would soon be reshaped by divorce and remarriage. Her mother moved the family to Europe after her stepfather's death, and Rebecca grew up in England and Austria, graduating summa cum laude from a German-speaking high school in the Alps in 1977. She still speaks fluent German and French.

Her acting career took off in the 1980s after training at Lee Strasberg's Institute and apprenticing at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope studio. She made her film debut in One from the Heart (1981), then broke through with a critically acclaimed performance in Risky Business (1983) opposite Tom Cruise. She went on to star in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Runaway Train (1985), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), and Backdraft (1991). Her television work includes Getting Out (1994), An Inconvenient Woman (1991), The Shining (1997), ER, and Night Ride Home (1999). On stage, she appeared in Born Yesterday, Marat/Sade, and Closer.

De Mornay is also a director, making her debut with a segment of The Outer Limits in 1995. She has two daughters, Sophia and Veronica. She is American. Her body type is slim. She is 5'6" tall. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 66 years old now, with 45 years in the industry, and she has an Instagram following of 22k.