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My Take
What I admire about Rebecca De Mornay is how she weaponized expectations. After Risky Business made her an overnight sensation in 1983, the easy path was a decade of glamorous love interests. Instead she pivoted into one of the great screen villains, and her nanny in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle still ranks among the most unsettling performances of the nineties; the MTV Best Villain award barely covers it. Add producing and television directing to the resume and you get a craftsperson, not a starlet. She is proof that longevity in Hollywood belongs to actors who choose roles over image.
Overview
Rebecca De Mornay (born August 29, 1959) is an American actress who has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she starred in Risky Business. De Mornay is also known for her roles in The Slugger's Wife (1985), Runaway Train (1985), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Backdraft (1991), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Rebecca De Mornay
- Name (Japanese)
- レベッカ・デモーネイ
- Reading
- れべっか・でもーねい
- Born
- August 29, 1959 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Boar
- Origin
- Santa Rosa, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / television actor / stage actor / film producer / television director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1992 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
- MTV Movie & TV Awards
- 2010 Time Machine Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.