Editing Rebecca De Mornay (section)

==Early life==
De Mornay was born Rebecca Jane Pearch in [[Santa Rosa, California]], the daughter of Julie<ref>{{cite web |title=Rebecca De Mornay Biography |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/rebecca-de-mornay/bio/3000029537/ |access-date=November 24, 2021 |website=[[TV Guide]]}}</ref> and [[Wally George]] ([[Name at birth|né]] George Walter Pearch), a [[disc jockey]] and later television host.<ref name="people">{{cite journal |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087128,00.html |title=Rabble-Rouser Wally George Is the New Pitchman and Great Right Hope of TV Squawk Shows |first=Joshua |last=Hammer |journal=[[People (magazine)|People]] |volume=21 |issue=8 |date=February 27, 1984 |access-date=December 11, 2021}}</ref>  Her paternal grandmother was [[vaudeville]] performer and child film actress [[Eugenia Clinchard]].{{sfn|Kiehn|2003|p=258}}

Her parents divorced in 1960, and she took the surname of her stepfather, Richard De Mornay, after her mother married him in 1961. She spent her early years in [[Pasadena, California]], until her stepfather died of a stroke on March 2, 1962, aged 48.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Pasadena Genius Passes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/31754108/ |date=April 8, 1962 |newspaper=Independent Star-News}}</ref> After his death, De Mornay and her half-brother Peter were raised by her mother, who relocated the family to Europe, where they lived in several different locations.<ref name=tcm>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/46543%7C0/Rebecca-De-Mornay#biography |work=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |title=Rebecca De Mornay Biography |access-date=May 14, 2022}}</ref> She attended the [[Independent school|independent]] [[Summerhill School]] in [[Leiston]], [[Suffolk]], [[England]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/24/schools.news1 |title=Radical boarding school escapes closure threat |first=Rebecca |last=Smithers |date=March 24, 2000 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |access-date=2010-08-30}}</ref> before completing her studies at a private high school in [[Germany]].<ref name=tcm/>