Biography

		Life Story
		Film and Career

Rebecca was born in Hazard, Kentucky and raised in nearby Pinetop. She is a coal miner's daughter. She moved to New York City at 15 where she completed her education at New York's Professional Children's School and the Lee Strasberg Institute and began a career acting and modeling. 

Rebecca became well known from her appearances in a series of commercials for Noxzema skin cream beginning in 1991. In 1992, she joined the cast of the soap opera Loving. In 1995, she had a recurring role in the series Beverly Hills, 90210. She has also been a regular on the television series Earth 2 (1994), Wasteland (1999), and Dead Like Me (2003) and has a re-occurring role on Nip/Tuck (2004). 

The milky-skinned, curly-haired Rebecca Gayheart won attention as both the Noxzema Girl in a series of TV commercials in the early 1990s, and as the bride of Dylan (Luke Perry) on "Beverly Hills, 90210" (Fox, 1995), whose death was used as the actor's out from the series. Since then the attractive brunette with striking blue eyes has begun racking up both TV and feature film credits as a leading lady whose star is rising.

Born into poverty as the daughter of a coal miner in Kentucky, Gayheart, at age 15, won a modeling contest that promised a career in NYC. With $300 in her pocket (all her parents could afford) she took off for the big city. 

Within two years, Gayheart had won a contract with Noxzema. While enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she began to find bit roles and extra work on the soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" and on the NBC sitcom "The Cosby Show". 

Her big break came in 1991 when she was cast as Hannah Mayberry, a young woman who becomes psychotically obsessed with her college professor, on the ABC daytime drama "Loving". After nearly three years on the show, she left in August 1993 to pursue other career opportunities.

Heading to the West Coast, Gayheart soon landed the role of Clair in several installments of the syndicated TV-movies "Vanishing Son". She then was cast as the wife of a cowardly government agent in the short-lived sci-fi series "Earth 2" (NBC, 1994-95). 

In 1997, Gayheart once again played Luke Perry's love interest, this time in the NBC miniseries "Robin Cook's 'Invasion'", although he was infected with an extraterrestrial virus and it was up to her character to save the earth.

Gayheart made her screen debut in the short film "Whatever Happened to Mason Reese?" (1990). She was featured in Martin Donovan's 1996 film "Somebody is Waiting" as the girlfriend of a sullen teenager. Gayheart followed with a supporting turn in "Nothing to Lose" (1997), starring Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence.

Rebecca has appeared in several films, most often horror films or comedies aimed at a teenage audience: Somebody Is Waiting (1996), Nothing to Lose (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Hairshirt (1998), Urban Legend (1998), Jawbreaker (1999), Puppet (1999), From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000), Shadow Hours (2000), Doppelganger (2001), Harvard Man (2001), and Pipe Dream (2002). 

Rebecca was engaged to director Brett Ratner but the couple separated. Rebecca married actor Eric Dane on October 29, 2004.

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