Date of birth 12 August 1971 Birth place Hazard, Kentucky, USA Nickname The Noxzema girl Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Spouse Eric Dane (29 October 2004 - present)   Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971 in Hazard, Kentucky) is an American actress.

Gayheart was raised in Pinetop, Kentucky by parents of Irish, Italian, German and Cherokee Indian heritage. Her father 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 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.

Gayheart plead no contest to misdemeanor charges that stemmed from a 2001 incident where the vehicle she was driving killed a 9 year old boy. She was charged with (and plead guilty to) involuntary vehicular manslaughter.
The boy was crossing the street in Los Angeles; he had been jaywalking, but other traffic had stopped to let him pass. Gayheart allegedly swerved into a left-turn-only lane to pass the stopped cars and struck the boy, who died the following day from his injuries. Later that year, she flipped a rental car into two parked cars.