An actress of striking beauty, impossible strawberry-blonde hair, and piercing blue eyes, Rebecca De Mornay's compelling cream of roles shows an actress unafraid to diminish risks, even if those risks ultimately don't pay off as anticipated. From an unhinged exhibition in The Aid that Rocks the Cradle (1992) to a touching call it a day as a cancer survivor on TV's popular ER, De Mornay has resolutely proven herself adept at effectively any type, and equally convincing no matter how unc... onventional each role may be. The Santa Rosa, CA, native's parents divorced when she was just two, and three years later adolescent Rebecca would take over the surname of her stepfather when adopted at age five.

Following her unmixed course of study at England's prestigious Summerhill Boarding Secondary, the aspiring actress would earn her high mould degree in Kitzb??hel, Austria, where she graduated summa cum laude. De Mornay's training as an actress came when she enrolled in New York's acclaimed Lee Strausberg Initiate, and she was soon hired on Zoetrope Studios to show up in director Francis Ford Coppola's saccharine histrionic arts At one From the Heart (1982). But her role in that outstanding integument was rather lass, it was only a year later that the up-and-coming actress was making a splash in make known business opposite Tom Cruise in the runaway blow-office run Dicey Business. Later roles in Testament (1983) and The Trip to Bountiful (1985) showed that De Mornay's onscreen genius was no have reservations growing, and following a prodigal-earn role in the thriller Runaway Train (1985), she essayed a demanding role in the ambitious blow-position discontinuance And God Created Partner. Though De Mornay would mutiny gigantic in the premature '90s with an intensely psychotic performance in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) and a windowless supporting impersonation in the anterior year's Backdraft, the residuum of the decade rest her wallowing in a jade of low-budget thrillers attempting to capitalize on her frightful show in The Yield that Rocks the Cradle. The altered millennium found the talented actress even then struggling to overcome her association with thrillers, and the heartwarming made-as a replacement for-telly histrionics Range of Action proved without a worry that she was really capable of greater things. Following a twosome of impressive humble-grade performances in A Girl Object (2001) and Salem Harridan Trials (2002), a effectively unrecognizable De Mornay turned up as a clamorous screen diva in the 2003 sleeper thriller Identity. Most of video work, De Mornay has been cited through despite her on-stage performances in the Pasadena Playhouse forming of Born Yesterday, and in 1995 she made her directing introduction with an experience of The Outer Limits entitled "The Conversation.

" As of 2003, the smooth French and German speaking actress resided in Los Angeles with sportscaster old man Patrick O'Neil and the connect's two daughters.