Rebecca De Mornay Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the Best Actress award at the 1992 Cognac Festival du Film Policier for "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle․"
• Trained to be an actress at Lee Strasberg's Institute and apprenticed at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Film Studio
• Her diverse career has shown that she isn't afraid to take risks and play unconventional roles
• Her successfully psychotic performance in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" briefly resulted in her being typecast in a string of thrillers
• Graduated from a German-speaking high school and still speaks German fluently
• A character that appears in two episodes of Seinfeld is named after her