1983 saw Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay star together in Risky Business, a critically and commercially celebrated coming-of-age comedy that was hailed as the next The Graduate. It’s been over four decades since De Mornay electrified the big screen and today she is 64 and still as radiant as ever.
De Mornay had an agent by the time she was just 16, starting off her career in music with her songs sold to German rock and roll artists before De Mornay studied acting stateside. Her film debut came in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1981 film One from the Heart and just two years later came the movie that made her a star, Risky Business, opposite Cruise.
Rebecca De Mornay still stuns at 64
February 4 marked the 51st Saturn Awards, celebrating the best in genre fiction – namely, sci-fi fantasy, horror, and other related genres. De Mornay was spotted at the event, held at the Burbank Convention Center, looking like she’s defied the aging process in all these four decades.
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64-year-old De Mornay wore a figure-hugging short black dress accented by a gold buckle, all wrapped up in a large fur coat. She wore matching tights and tied it all together with a thin pair of black heels. De Mornay wore her long blonde hair loose and wavy around her face, which was modestly made up and appeared to be framed by a pair of large earrings.
Today and yesterday are both full of surprises
Following its release on August 5, 1983, Risky Business went on to become a universally-acclaimed success. It earned $4,275,327 on its opening weekend and ultimately grossed $63.5 million domestically. The New York Times praised its abundance of style while Roger Ebert praised it as “one of the smartest, funniest, most perceptive satires in a long time,” adding, “This is one of those movies where a few words or a single line says everything that needs to be said, implies everything that needs to be implied, and gets a laugh.”
No one was surprised by the film’s success quite as much as the cast and crew, including De Mornay; she anticipated success for the movie but none of its cultural staying power.
“I thought it was going to be a big hit,” she mused, adding, “It was personally jarring, and thrilling and discombobulating to have become famous so quickly. Tom and I were together when the movie came out and we had photographers jumping out of bushes, the pre-paparazzi days.”
After a brief break in the late ’70s, De Mornay has been back at it ever since, living in those paparazzi days, with her latest film credit coming from this year’s Peter Five Eight, and her last television appearance coming from three episodes of Lucifer a few years prior.
