De Mornay Rocks Probation

Actress pleads no contest to driving under the influence

By Josh Grossberg Feb 05, 2008 8:18 PMTags

She's not exactly guilty as sin, but Rebecca De Mornay has owned up to some risky drinking and driving.

The Risky Business vixen pleaded no contest Tuesday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court to driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or above, stemming from her Oct. 30 arrest following a routine traffic stop, E! Online has learned.

In exchange for her plea, which was entered via attorney Blair Berk, a second count of driving under the influence was dismissed.

Judge H. Chester Horn sentenced De Mornay to three years' probation, fined her $350 plus fees and ordered her to complete an alcohol-rehabilitation program.

The 48-year-old actress was driving near Sunset Boulevard at approximately 10:30 p.m. when police pulled her over for an unspecified traffic violation.

Officers "immediately detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage," per the Beverly Hills Police Department, and gave her a series of field sobriety tests, which De Mornay flubbed. She was taken into custody, cited for DUI and released shortly before 1 a.m.  Authorities say her blood-alcohol level registered at 0.09, just above the legal limit.

De Mornay, of course, is best known for playing a lady of the night who shows a young Tom Cruise a good time in a Chicago subway car in the 1983 hit Risky Business.

Other notable credits include a role opposite Kurt Russell in Ron Howard's 1991 firefighter drama Backdraft; the psycho nanny in the 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, flirting with Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Chris O'Donnell in 1993's The Three Musketeers; and appearing with John Cusack and Ray Liotta in the 2003 frightfest Identity.

More recently she turned up in the 2005 films Wedding Crashers with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson and Lords of Dogtown with Emile Hirsch and Heath Ledger.

On the tube, De Mornay starred in the 1997 miniseries The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel. She has also made memorable guest appearances on ER, Boomtown, The Practice, Law & Order: SVU and last year's surf-centric HBO series, John from Cincinnati.