Rebecca De Mornay
Biography
Rebecca De Mornay (born 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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Acting History
2025
Saint Clare as Arlene 'Gigi' Newberry
2025Off the Record as Kate
2024Peter Five Eight as Brenda
2023Angel Baby as Maggie
2020She Ball as Aggie
2018Periphery as Vi Warner
2016I Am Wrath as Vivian Hill
2016Lucifer as Penelope
2016Lucifer as Penelope Decker
2015Marvel's Jessica Jones as Dorothy Walker
2015Collar as Ramona Billingsley
2013Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky as Sara (archive footage)
2012Apartment 1303 3D as Maddie Slate
2012American Reunion as Finch's Mom (uncredited)
2010Mother's Day as Natalie 'Mother' Koffin
2010Hawaii Five-0 as Barbara Cotchin
2010Flipped as Patsy Loski
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2008The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business as Self
2007American Venus as Celia
2007John from Cincinnati as Cissy Yost
2007Music Within as Richard's Mom
2005Wedding Crashers as Mrs. Kroeger
2005Lords of Dogtown as Philaine
2004Raise Your Voice as Nina Fletcher
2003NCIS as Carla Marino
2003Identity as Caroline Suzanne
2002Salem Witch Trials as Elizabeth Parris
2001A Girl Thing as Kim McCormack
2000Range of Motion as Lainey Berman
2000The Right Temptation as Derian McCall
1999Wicked Ways as Ruth Draper
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Tessa McKellen
1999Thick as Thieves as Petrone
1999Night Ride Home as Nora Mahler
1998The Con as Barbara Beaton / Nancy Thoroughgood
1997The Shining as Wendy Torrance
1997The Practice as Hannah Rose
1996The Winner as Louise
1995Never Talk to Strangers as Dr. Sarah Alison Taylor
1995Lo + plus as Self - Guest
1995The Outer Limits as Woman
1994ER as Elaine Nichols
1994Getting Out as Arlene Holsclaw
1993The Three Musketeers as Milady
1993Guilty as Sin as Jennifer Haines
1993Blind Side as Lynn Kaines
1992The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders
1991Backdraft as Helen McCaffrey
1991An Inconvenient Woman as Flo
1990By Dawn's Early Light as Moreau
1989Dealers as Anna Schuman
1988Feds! as Ellis DeWitt
1988And God Created Woman as Robin Shea
1988Tanner '88 as Self
1987Beauty and the Beast as Beauty
1986The Murders in the Rue Morgue as Claire Dupin
1986Pecos Bill as Rose 'Slew Foot Sue' Peasley
1985The Trip to Bountiful as Thelma
1985Runaway Train as Sara
1985Tall Tales & Legends as Rose 'Slew Foot Sue' Peasley
1985The Slugger's Wife as Debby Palmer
1983Testament as Cathy Pitkin
1983Risky Business as Lana
1982One from the Heart as Understudy
1974NOVA as Narrator
—The Up and Comer
—Giving Thanks as Aunt Theodora