
Amy Irving
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1953-09-10 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Palo Alto, California, USA
Amy Irving
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 the original Broadway production of Broken Glass (1994) and the revival of Three Sisters (1997). In film, she starred in the ensemble comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997), and reprised her role in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) before co-starring opposite Michael Douglas in Steven Soderbergh's crime-drama Traffic (2000). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) and Adam (2009). From 2006 to 2007, she starred in the Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia. In 2018, she reunited with Soderbergh, appearing in a supporting role in his horror film Unsane.
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Known For
Acting
(2023)
King on Screen
as Self
(2021)
A Mouthful of Air
as Bobbi Davis
(2020)
Confetti
as Helen
(2018)
Unsane
as Angela Valentini
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
Adam
as Rebecca Buchwald
(2005)
Hide and Seek
as Alison Callaway
(2002)
Tuck Everlasting
as Mother Foster
(2001)
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
as Patricia
(2001)
Acting 'Carrie'
as Self
(2000)
Traffic
as Barbara Wakefield
(2000)
Bossa Nova
as Mary Ann Simpson
(2000)
(1999)
The Confession
as Sarah Fertig
(1999)
The Rage: Carrie 2
as Sue Snell
(1999)
Blue Ridge Fall
as Ellie Perkins
(1998)
One Tough Cop
as FBI Agent Jean Devlin
(1997)
Deconstructing Harry
as Jane
(1996)
I'm Not Rappaport
as Clara Gelber
(1996)
Carried Away
as Rosealee Henson
(1995)
Kleptomania
as Diana Allen
(1994)
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre")
(1993)
Benefit of the Doubt
as Karen Braswell
(1991)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
as Miss Kitty (voice)
(1990)
A Show of Force
as Kate Melendez
(1989)
Casualties of War
as Girl on the Train (voice) (uncredited)
(1989)
The Turn of the Screw
as The Governess
(1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
as Jessica Rabbit (singing voice) (uncredited)
(1988)
She's Having a Baby
as Amy Irving (uncredited)
(1988)
Crossing Delancey
as Isabelle Grossman
(1988)
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Narrator (voice)
(1987)
Citizen Steve
as Self - Actress / Wife
(1987)
Rumpelstiltskin
as Katie
(1984)
Micki & Maude
as Maude Salinger
(1983)
Yentl
as Hadass
(1980)
The Competition
as Heidi Joan Schoonover
(1980)
Honeysuckle Rose
as Lily
(1979)
Voices
as Rosemarie Lemon
(1978)
The Fury
as Gillian Bellaver
(1977)
I'm a Fool
as Lucy
(1976)
Carrie
as Sue Snell
(1976)
Dynasty
as Amanda Blackwood
(1976)
James Dean
as Norma Jean
(1976)
Panache
as Anne
Crew
(1996)
Carried Away
Executive Producer