Rebecca Gayheart as Brenda Bates
After a bravura opening sequence featuring Natasha Gregson Wagner getting slaughtered by the killer with an axe hiding in the backseat of her car, Urban Legend tells the story of a group of pretty college students at a remote New England university. The focus of the story is Natalie (Alicia Witt), a beautiful, academically-gifted student at the fictional Pendleton University. Natalie and her friends (who include Jared Leto as a brash journalist, Rebecca Gayheart as her best friend, Michael Rosenbaum as the party-hardy boy, Joshua Jackson as a practical joker and Tara Reid as the sexy campus DJ) are all involved in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler (Robert Englund). Wexler regales his class with urban legends, which include Pendleton's own urban legend about a Psych professor who murdered six students at Stanley Hall 25 years ago. Natalie is the first one to suspect there's a killer on campus, especially after she has ties to all of the victims. First, it's her high school friend, a guy she's in the woods with at night, her roommate (Danielle Harris)... No one, including her friends, Wexler, Dean Adams (John Neville) and security guard (Loretta Devine), of course, believes her until it's too late and everyone begins to die according to famous urban legends, and Natalie believes it's all tied to a dark and horrible secret from her past. Now she finds that she and her friends are part of the killer's ultimate urban legend--the story of their own horrific deaths...
Biography for Rebecca Gayheart
Date of birth
12 August 1972,
Hazard, Kentucky, USA
Nickname
The Noxzema girl
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Trivia
(1997) Engaged to director Brett Ratner whom she has dated since 1991.
Attended Knott County Central High School, Hindman, Kentucky.
Former model.
Studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
(13 June 2001) On 13 June 2001, Gayheart struck 9-year-old Jorge Cruz Jr. as he jaywalked across the street. According to the police report, the boy was walking home from school, and crossed the street about 160 feet from the nearest crosswalk. While several cars stopped to let him go, Gayheart allegedly swerved around the traffic and into a two-way left-turn lane, striking the boy; he died the next day at Los Angeles Children's Hospital. His parents, Jorge Cruz and Silvia Martinez, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on 6 August 2001 against her. Gayheart paid for Cruz's hospital and funeral expenses.
(27 November 2001) Pleaded no contest to the criminal charge and was sentenced to 3 years probation, a suspended license, a fine, and to produce a safe driving video.
After the accident with Jorge Cruz Jr. not only were all her commericals on TV and adds on magazines terminated but she lost all current and future contracts with companies whom were planning to hire her as their poster woman. (12.29.01)
Pipe Dream (2001) .... Marliss Funt
Harvard Man (2001) .... Kelly
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) (uncredited) .... Nurse Brenda Bates
... aka Leyendas urbanas: Corte final (2000) (USA: Spanish title)
... aka L�gendes urbaines 2 (2000) (Canada: French title)
Shadow Hours (2000) .... Chloe Holloway
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) (V) .... Mary Newlie
Life After Donna Dell (1999)
Puppet (1999) .... Lori Myers
"Wasteland" (1999) TV Series .... Samantha 'Sam' Price
Jawbreaker (1999) .... Julie Freeman
Hairshirt (1998) .... Jennifer Scott
... aka Too Smooth (2001) (USA: reissue title)
Urban Legend (1998) .... Brenda Bates
... aka Mixed Culture (1998) (USA)
... aka Urban Legend (1998) (France)
... aka Urban Legends (1998) (USA)
"Hercules" (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Medea
... aka "Disney's Hercules" (1998) (USA)
Scream 2 (1997) .... Lois
Nothing to Lose (1997) .... Danielle
"Invasion" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... Cassy Winslow
... aka "Robin Cook's Invasion" (1997) (mini) (USA: complete title)
Somebody Is Waiting (1996) .... Lilli
"Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990) TV Series .... Antonia Elisabeth 'Toni' Marchette/McKay (1995)
"Earth 2" (1994) TV Series .... Bess Martin
Earth 2 (1994) (TV) .... Bess Martin
Vanishing Son IV (1994) (TV) .... Clair
Vanishing Son III (1994) (TV) .... Clair
Vanishing Son (1994) (TV) .... Clair
"Loving" (1983) TV Series .... Hannah Mayberry (1992-1993)
Whatever Happened to Mason Reese (1990) .... Rebecca
Other Rebecca Gayheart pages on Women of Horror:
From Dusk Til Dawn 3