Snakkke Catches Up with the Cast of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as the Nanny Nightmare Thriller Turns 20!

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Annabella Sciorra as Claire Bartel

Trusting Claire Bartel hires Peyton Flanders to be their nanny and finds herself in any mother’s worst nightmare. This clip shows Peyton worming her way into the Bartels’ world.

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Annabella Sciorra—Today

Here Sciorra attends the Drama Desk Awards at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Her solid career has included numerous film and TV appearances, including her Emmy-nominated role as Gloria Trillo on The Sopranos. Most recently she was seen on Broadway with Chris Rock in Motherf**ker with the Hat.

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Ernie Hudson as Solomon

What Solomon lacks in intellect he possesses in intuition. He immediately knows that the nanny is not to be trusted. She subsequently gets him fired when he sees her secretly breastfeeding the Bartels’ baby.

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Ernie Hudson—Today

Hudson arrives at the premiere of The Zookeeper at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. His acting chops were displayed in his longstanding role as warden Leo Glynn in Oz.

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Julianne Moore as Marlene Craven

Moore's Marlene Craven, Michael Bartel’s ex-girlfriend and friend, is falsely accused of having an affair with him, but she’s actually the one who figures out that the nanny is not who she says she is. This clip shows Moore sharing the quote “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world” from the poem by William Ross Wallace.

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Julianne Moore—Today

Here Moore attends the Freckleface Strawberry the Musical & Peter PANtomime benefit performances at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center on December 10, 2011, in New York City. Her beauty is trumped only by her talent—Moore has been nominated for four Academy Awards and six Golden Globes.

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Madeline Zima as Emma Bartel

Emma Bartel proves to be the world’s bravest and best big sister by attempting to rescue her baby brother Joey when all hell breaks loose in the dramatic conclusion of this movie.

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Madeline Zima—Today

Here Zima arrives at Nylon magazine's Young Hollywood issue celebration at Bardot on May 4, 2011, in Hollywood. Zima went from one nanny to another. After The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, she played the role of Grace Sheffield on the TV series The Nanny for six years. More recently she played Mia Lewis on Californication.

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Matt McCoy as Michael Bartel

Despite possibly regretting the fact that he encouraged his wife to bring up charges against Dr. Mott (the nanny’s dead husband), Bartel proved to be a supportive and loving husband and father from start to finish.

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Matt McCoy—Today

Here McCoy attends the RFK Center Ripple of Hope Awards dinner at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on November 18, 2009, in New York City. After starring in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, McCoy was cast in director Curtis Hanson’s 1997 movie L.A. Confidential.

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Rebecca De Mornay as Peyton Flanders/Mrs. Mott

Cybill Shepherd was almost cast in the role of Peyton Flanders, but had she been, the world would’ve missed De Mornay’s chillingly perfect portrayal of a grieving woman gone mad.

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Rebecca De Mornay—Today

De Mornay arrives at premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' Red Riding Hood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on March 7, 2011, in Hollywood. De Mornay will be seen alongside Mischa Barton in the forthcoming horror film Apartment 1303 3D, but she will forever be remembered for her role as Lana opposite Tom Cruise in Risky Business.