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.

Filmography

• 2026The Gentleman Thief — Odessa
• 2025Off the Record — Kate
• 2025Saint Clare — Arlene 'Gigi' Newberry
• 2024Peter Five Eight — Brenda
• 2023Angel Baby — Maggie
• 2020She Ball — Aggie
• 2018Periphery — Vi Warner
• 2016I Am Wrath — Vivian Hill
• Lucifer — Penelope, Penelope Decker
• 2015Collar — Ramona Billingsley
• Marvel's Jessica Jones — Dorothy Walker
• 2013Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky — Sara (archive footage)
• 2012American Reunion — Finch's Mom (uncredited)
• 2012Apartment 1303 3D — Maddie Slate
• 2010Flipped — Patsy Loski
• Hawaii Five-0 — Barbara Cotchin
• 2010Mother's Day — Natalie 'Mother' Koffin
• 2007American Venus — Celia
• John from Cincinnati — Cissy Yost
• 2007Music Within — Richard's Mom
• 2005Lords of Dogtown — Philaine
• 2005Wedding Crashers — Mrs. Kroeger
• 2004Raise Your Voice — Nina Fletcher
• 2003Identity — Caroline Suzanne
• NCIS — Carla Marino
• Salem Witch Trials — Elizabeth Parris
• A Girl Thing — Kim McCormack
• 2000Lost On Everest
• 2000Range of Motion — Lainey Berman
• 2000The Right Temptation — Derian McCall
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Tessa McKellen
• 1999Night Ride Home — Nora Mahler
• 1999Thick as Thieves — Petrone
• 1999Wicked Ways — Ruth Draper, Co-Executive Producer
• 1998The Con — Barbara Beaton / Nancy Thoroughgood
• The Practice — Hannah Rose
• The Shining — Wendy Torrance
• 1996The Winner — Louise, Executive Producer
• 1995Never Talk to Strangers — Dr. Sarah Alison Taylor, Executive Producer
• The Outer Limits — Woman, Director
• ER — Elaine Nichols
• 1994Getting Out — Arlene Holsclaw
• 1993Blind Side — Lynn Kaines
• 1993Guilty as Sin — Jennifer Haines
• 1993The Three Musketeers — Milady de Winter
• 1992The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders
• An Inconvenient Woman — Flo
• 1991Backdraft — Helen McCaffrey
• 1990By Dawn's Early Light — Moreau
• 1989Dealers — Anna Schuman
• 1988And God Created Woman — Robin Shea
• 1988Feds! — Ellis DeWitt
• 1987Beauty and the Beast — Beauty
• 1986Pecos Bill — Rose 'Slew Foot Sue' Peasley
• 1986The Murders in the Rue Morgue — Claire Dupin
• 1985Runaway Train — Sara
• Tall Tales & Legends — Rose 'Slew Foot Sue' Peasley
• 1985The Slugger's Wife — Debby Palmer
• 1985The Trip to Bountiful — Thelma
• 1983Risky Business — Lana
• 1983Testament — Cathy Pitkin
• American Playhouse — Cathy Pitkin
• 1982One from the Heart — Understudy
• 1981Spinal Tap: The Final Tour — Hot Tub Groupie
• NOVA — Narrator
• Giving Thanks — Aunt Theodora
• The Up and Comer

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• 2008The Dream Is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business — Self
• Lo + plus — Self - Guest
• Tanner '88 — Self