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Where Are They Now - Friday, September 4, 2015
Hello fans,
This week we are catching up with actress Rebecca de Mornay, known for her roles in the films Risky Business and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. What is she up to now?
Let's find out...
Take care,
Melissa
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Cathy Rigby: US gymnast in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, later she became a sports announcer and an actress, often playing Peter Pan
George Segal: Starred in the movies "The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox", "Rollercoaster", and "Fun with Dick and Jane", played Jack Gallo in the TV series "Just Shoot Me!"
Bubba Smith: Football player and actor, he was a defensive lineman for the NFL Baltimore Colts for nine years and appeared in all six "Police Academy" movies
(Answer at the bottom)
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Rebecca de Mornay
Learn More About Rebecca de Mornay on Celebrity Nooz
BIRTH DATE: August 29, 1959, Santa Rosa, California
BIRTH NAME: Rebecca Jane Pearch
CLAIM TO FAME: Known for her roles in such films as Risky Business, Runaway Train, Backdraft, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
FAMILY LIFE: She was married to writer Bruce Wagner from 1986-1990. She married sportscaster Patrick O'Neal in 1995 and they had two daughters: Sophia (born November 16, 1997) and Veronica (born March 31, 2001). They divorced in 2002.
INFO: Her first film was Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 film One from the Heart. She went on to become a star with her role as a call girl in Risky Business (1983). Also in the
1980s, she found success in the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
Her films in the 1990s include Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991), Sidney Lumet's murder drama Guilty as Sin (1993) and the 1995 drama film Never Talk to Strangers.
In the early part of the 2000s, she appeared as Hannah Rose in the last few episodes of The Practice and also had a role in the comedy Wedding Crashers.
TRIVIA: Her paternal grandmother was vaudeville performer and child film actress Eugenia Clinchard.
Took her stepfather's last name, De Mornay.
Attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England.
Trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: In 2012, De Mornay played the role of Finch's mom in the movie American Reunion where she portrayed an attractive older woman and a love interest of Stifler.
In 2013, she appeared as Mary Hatfield in the TV movie Hatfields & McCoys. She also appeared in an episode of Hawaii Five-O as Barbara Cotchin.
WRITE TO REBECCA DE MORNAY:
Rebecca De Mornay
c/o ICM
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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CREDITS:
2015 Collar...Mayor Ramona 'Nomi' Billingsley
2013 Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series)...Barbara Cotchin
- A ia la aku (2013)
2013 Hatfields & McCoys (TV Movie)...Mary Hatfield
2012 Apartment 1303 3D...Maddie Slate
2012 American Reunion...Rachel - Finch's Mom (uncredited)
2010/I Mother's Day...Natalie 'Mother' Koffin
2010/I Flipped...Patsy Loski
2007 American Venus...Celia
2007 John from Cincinnati (TV Series)...Cissy Yost
2007 Music Within...Richard's Mom
2006 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)...Tessa McKellen
- Manipulated (2006)
2005 Wedding Crashers...Mrs. Kroeger
2005 Lords of Dogtown...Philaine
2004 Raise Your Voice...Aunt Nina
2004 The Practice (TV Series)...Hannah Rose
2003 Boomtown (TV Series)...Sabrina Fithian' Jill Foster
- Inadmissible (2003) ... 'Sabrina Fithian' Jill Foster (as Rebecca Demornay)
- The Love of Money (2003) ... 'Sabrina Fithian' Jill Foster (as Rebecca Demornay)
2003 Identity...Caroline Suzanne (as Rebecca DeMornay)
2003 No Place Like Home (TV Movie)
2002 Salem Witch Trials (TV Movie)...Elizabeth Parris
2001 A Girl Thing (TV Movie)...Kim McCormack
2000 Range of Motion (TV Movie)...Lainey Berman
2000 The Right Temptation...Derian McCall (as Rebecca DeMornay)
1999 ER (TV Series)...Elaine Nichols
1999 A Table for One...Ruth Draper
1999 Night Ride Home (TV Movie)...Nora Mahler
1999 Thick as Thieves...Petrone
1998 The Con (TV Movie)...Barbara Beaton / Nancy Thoroughgood (as Rebecca DeMornay)
1997 The Shining (TV Mini-Series)...Winifred Torrance
1996 The Winner...Louise (as Rebecca DeMornay)
1995 Never Talk to Strangers...Dr. Sarah Taylor
1995 The Outer Limits (TV Series)...Woman
- The Conversion (1995)
1994 Getting Out (TV Movie)...Arlene Holsclaw
1993 The Three Musketeers...Countess D'Winter
1993 Guilty as Sin...Jennifer Haines
1993 Blind Side (TV Movie)...Lynn Kaines
1992 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle...Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders
1991 Backdraft...Helen McCaffrey
1991 An Inconvenient Woman (TV Movie)...Flo
1990 By Dawn's Early Light (TV Movie)...Moreau (as Rebecca DeMornay)
1989 Dealers...Anna Schuman
1988 Feds...Elizabeth 'Ellie' De Witt
1988 And God Created Woman...Robin Shea
1987 Beauty and the Beast...Beauty
1986 Laughter in the Dark
1986 The Murders in the Rue Morgue (TV Movie)...Claire Dupin
1986 Tall Tales & Legends (TV Series)...Slew Foot Sue
- Pecos Bill (1986)
1985 The Trip to Bountiful...Thelma
1985 Runaway Train...Sara
1985 The Slugger's Wife...Debby (Huston) Palmer
1983 Testament...Cathy Pitkin
1983 Risky Business...Lana
1981 One from the Heart...Understudy (as Rebecca de Mornay)
To see Then & Now pictures of Rebecca de Mornay, visit: Celebrity Nooz
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Cathy Rigby - ALIVE
Born: 12/12/1952
George Segal - ALIVE
Born: 02/13/1934
Bubba Smith - DEAD (Drug overdose)
Born: 02/28/1945 Died: 08/03/2011
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
9/1
Gurgen Dalibaltayan, 89, Armenian colonel-general.
Aleksandar Stipcevic, 84, Croatian historian.
8/31
Joy Beverley, 91, British singer (Beverley Sisters), stroke.
Barbara Brecht-Schall, 84, German actress, daughter and heiress of Bertolt Brecht.
Gordon Darling, 94, Australian businessman and philanthropist, first Chair of the National Gallery of Australia.
Cipe Lincovsky (es), 85, Argentine actress (The
Edward Montagu, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, 88, English peer, founder of the National Motor Museum.
Vera B. Rison, 76, American politician, member of the
Michigan House of Representatives (1997-2003).
Islam Timurziev, 32, Russian boxer, sepsis.
8/30
Wes Craven, 76, American film director, writer and producer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Last House on the Left), brain cancer.
Bart Cummings, 87, Australian racehorse trainer, twelve-time winner of the Melbourne Cup.
Edward Fadeley, 85, American attorney and politician, heart failure.
Dan Iordchescu, 85, Romanian baritone.
M. M. Kalburgi, 76, Indian writer and academic, shot.
Marvin Mandel, 95, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1969-1979), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1964-1969).
Joshua Park, 38, American theater actor (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer).
Pierfranco Pastore, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Secretary for Social Communications (1984-2003).
George Hamilton Pearce, 94, American-born Fijian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Suva (1967-1976).
Hugo Rasmussen, 74, Danish jazz musician.
Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Hallucinations), liver cancer.
Hector Silva, 75, Uruguayan footballer, heart attack.
Natalia Strelchenko, 38, Russian-born Norwegian concert pianist, head and neck injuries.
Mikhail Svetin, 84, Ukrainian-born Russian actor.
8/29
Carlos Maria Ariz Bolea, 86, Spanish-born Panamanian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Darien (1981-1988) and Bishop of Colon-Kuna Yala (1988-2005).
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, American theatre actor (Les Miserables), fall.
Wayne Dyer, 75, American self-help author and motivational speaker, leukemia.
Milorad Ekmecic, 86, Serbian historian.
Graham Leggat, 81, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Fulham, national team).
Jean Louvet, 81, Belgian playwright.
Luo Lan, 95, Taiwanese writer and radio personality, cardiopulmonary failure.
Ron Searle, 96, British-born Canadian politician, Mayor of Mississauga (1976-1978).
8/28
Al Arbour, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks) and Hall of Fame coach (New York Islanders).
Lindsay Charnock, 60, British jockey.
Jarmila Konecna, 84, Czech costume designer (Nicky's Family).
Mark Krasniqi, 94, Kosovan ethnographer and politician.
Joan Lind, 62, American rower, two-time Olympic silver medalist (1976, 1984), cancer.
Paulo Machava, 50s, Mozambican journalist, shot.
Wally McArthur, 81, Australian rugby league player (Rochdale).
Nelson Shanks, 77, American painter, cancer.
Jozef Wesolowski, 67, Polish defrocked Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic (2008-2013).
8/27
Adebowale Adefuye, 68, Nigerian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (since 2010).
Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 76, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister (1989-1990).
Matei Boila, 89, Romanian politician and Greek Catholic priest, Senator (1992-2000).
Pascal Chaumeil, 54, French director (Heartbreaker, A Long Way Down, A Perfect Plan).
George Cleve, 79, Austrian-born American musical conductor.
Darryl Dawkins, 58, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets), heart attack.
Nelly de Vries-Lammerts, 110, Dutch supercentenarian.
Joan Garriga, 52, Spanish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
Teresa Gorman, 83, British politician, MP for Billericay (1987-2001).
James A. Hefner, 76, American educator, President of Tennessee State University (1991-2005), colon cancer.
Ray Miron, 92, Canadian ice hockey executive (Central Hockey League, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies).
Rolf Nitzsche, 84, German Olympic cyclist (1956).
Jerzy Adam Ostapczuk, 44-45, Polish business executive, CEO of Barry Callebaut Russia.
8/26
Amelia Boynton Robinson, 104, American civil rights activist, multiple strokes.
Donald Eric Capps, 76, American theologian, traffic collision.
Keith Everitt, 92, Canadian politician, MLA for St. Albert (1971-1979).
Vester Flanagan, 41, American news reporter and murderer, suicide by gunshot.
Junaid Hussain, 21, British hacker (TeaMp0isoN) and Islamist propagandist, drone strike.
P. J. Kavanagh, 84, English poet.
Peter Kern, 66, Austrian actor and filmmaker (The Last Summer of the Rich).
Stefanos Manikas, 63, Greek politician, Minister of State (2001-2003), cancer.
Alison Parker, 24, American news reporter (WDBJ), shot.
Carmelo Domenico Recchia, 93, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, last Territorial Abbot of Claraval (1976-1999).
Maroun Khoury Sader, 88, Lebanese Maronite hierarch, Archbishop of Tyre (1992-2003).
Francisco San Diego, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate,
Bishop of San Pablo (1995-2003) and Pasig (2003-2010).
Gyozo Soos, 66, Hungarian politician, MP (1994-2006).
Adam Ward, 27, American news cameraman (WDBJ) and photojournalist, shot.