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Irving at the Governor's Ball party, after the 1989 Academy Awards
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Born |
Amy Davis Irving September 10, 1953 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1975–2009 (screen) 1955–2015 (stage) |
Spouse(s) |
Steven Spielberg (m. 1985; div. 1989) Bruno Barreto (m. 1996; div. 2005) Kenneth Bowser (m. 2007) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) |
Jules Irving Priscilla Pointer |
Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Yentl (1983) and for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Crossing Delancey (1988). She made her Broadway debut in Amadeus in 1980 and went on to receive an Obie Award for the 1988 Off-Broadway production of The Road to Mecca. Her other film appearances include Carrie (1976), The Fury (1978), Micki & Maude (1984), Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) and Traffic (2000).
Irving was born in Palo Alto, California. Her father was film and stage director Jules Irving (born Jules Israel) and her mother is actress Priscilla Pointer. Her brother is writer/director David Irving (not the British author of the same name) and her sister is singer/teacher of deaf children, Katie Irving. Irving's father was Jewish, as was one of Irving's maternal great-great-grandfathers. Irving was raised in Christian Science, and her family observed no religious traditions.
Irving attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and appeared in several productions there. She also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and made her off-Broadway debut at age 17 in And Chocolate on Her Chin. She is a graduate of the Professional Children's School, in Manhattan, New York.