Personal Life
She was born Rebecca Jane Pearch on August 29, 1959, in Santa Rosa, California. Her father was Wally George (né Pearch), a disc jockey at the time.
When she was two, her parents divorced and, at the age of five, she became known by her stepfather's surname, De Mornay. She has two step-brothers: Jonathan, a businessman, and Peter, a guitarist. She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England, but her high-school degree was awarded in St. Johann, near Kitzbühel, Austria. She later trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
DeMornay dated actors Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Cruise, and was engaged to singer Leonard Cohen. She married writer Bruce Wagner on 16 December 1986, but they divorced in 1990. Her second marriage was to Ryan O'Neal's son, sportscaster Patrick O'Neal, from 1995 to 2002; the union produced two daughters: Sophia (born November 16, 1997) and Veronica (born March 31, 2001).
She is the former half-sister-in-law of actress Tatum O'Neal and her ex-husband John McEnroe, and is the aunt of their three children (Kevin, Sean and Emily).
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