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Amy Irving

Amy Irving

Acting
Born: Sep 10, 1953
From: Palo Alto, California, USA
Credits: 30 titles

Biography

Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress and singer, who worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Palo Alto, California, to actors Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer, Irving spent her early life in San Francisco before her family relocated to New York City during her teenage years. In New York, she made her Broadway debut in The Country Wife (1965–1966) at age 13. Irving subsequently studied theater at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), followed by a lead role in the 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury (1978). In 1980, Irving appeared in a Broadway production of Amadeus before being cast in Yentl (1983), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1988, she received an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in a production of The Road to Mecca, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Irving went on to appear in …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
A Mouthful of Air Bobbi Davis 2021 6.5
Adam Rebecca Buchwald 2009 6.811
Hide and Seek Alison Callaway 2005 6.347
Tuck Everlasting Mother Foster 2002 6.681
Acting 'Carrie' Self 2001 7.5
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Patricia 2001 6.3
Bossa Nova Mary Ann Simpson 2000 5.483
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' Self 2000 7.0
The Confession Sarah Fertig 1999 5.776
The Rage: Carrie 2 Sue Snell 1999 5.644
Blue Ridge Fall Ellie Perkins 1999 5.045
Deconstructing Harry Jane 1997 7.261
Carried Away Rosealee Henson 1996 5.738
I'm Not Rappaport Clara Gelber 1996 5.706
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre") 1994 6.795
Benefit of the Doubt Karen Braswell 1993 4.813
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West Miss Kitty (voice) 1991 6.335
The Turn of the Screw The Governess 1989 9.0
Crossing Delancey Isabelle Grossman 1988 5.927
The Velveteen Rabbit Narrator (voice) 1988
Citizen Steve Self - Actress / Wife 1987 6.0
Rumpelstiltskin Katie 1987 4.3
Micki & Maude Maude Salinger 1984 5.598
Yentl Hadass 1983 6.687
Honeysuckle Rose Lily 1980 5.31
The Competition Heidi Joan Schoonover 1980 6.119
Voices Rosemarie Lemon 1979 3.75
The Fury Gillian Bellaver 1978 6.301
Carrie Sue Snell 1976 7.331
Panache Anne 1976 10.0
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1953
FromPalo Alto, California, …