Hometown: Pinetop, KY, USA
Born: Saturday, August 12th, 1972

Rebecca Gayheart is an American actress. Gayheart was born in Hazard, Kentucky but raised in Pinetop, Kentucky, by parents of Irish, Mexican, Italian, German and Cherokee Indian heritage. Her father, Curtis, was a coal miner. 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.

Gayheart was for a time engaged to director Brett Ratner. She and actor Eric Dane were married on October 29, 2004.

Gayheart’s break into the television industry was a series of television commercials for Noxzema in the early 1990s, earning her the moniker “The Noxzema Girl”. The commercials began airing in 1991 and brought her recognition.