Amy Irving
Date of birth: 1953-09-10
Place of birth: Palo Alto, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Irving, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Yentl
1983-11-18
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a bo
Deconstructing Harry
1997-12-12
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, som
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991-11-21
Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having prob
Hide and Seek
2005-01-27
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left
The Confession
1999-03-26
After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own
Adam
2009-07-07
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Bet
Honeysuckle Rose
1980-07-18
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy I
Carrie
1976-11-03
Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from he
The Rage: Carrie 2
1999-03-12
Following the suicide of her only friend, outcast teen Rachel Lang's life begins a downward spiral t
Acting 'Carrie'
2001-08-28
In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spa
A Mouthful of Air
2021-10-29
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of
The Fury
1978-03-10
When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father mana
Citizen Steve
1987-01-01
On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive r
Crossing Delancey
1988-08-17
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that
Tuck Everlasting
2002-10-11
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotectiv
Micki & Maude
1984-12-21
TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for mother
The Competition
1980-12-03
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chanc
Benefit of the Doubt
1993-06-17
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994-05-19
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories
Carried Away
1996-01-26
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his
I'm Not Rappaport
1996-12-24
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His compan
Rumpelstiltskin
1987-04-01
A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievou
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001-09-02
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people ar
Bossa Nova
2000-02-18
After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedr
The Turn of the Screw
1989-08-12
A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted b
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000-12-19
Voices
1979-03-14
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a da
Blue Ridge Fall
1999-10-07
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyalit
The Velveteen Rabbit
1988-01-01
A stuffed toy rabbit yearns to become real through the love of the boy who owns him.
Panache
1976-05-15
A stylish comedy swashbuckler mixing romance, masterful swordplay, political treachery, and 20th-Cen
One Tough Cop
1998-10-09
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
Dynasty
1976-03-13
The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier.
A Show of Force
1990-05-11
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Pu
James Dean
1976-02-19
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, h
Unsane
2018-03-22
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest f
She's Having a Baby
1988-02-05
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full re
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988-06-22
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu
Traffic
2000-12-27
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the ne
Kleptomania
1995-01-07
Diana is a troubled, bulimic socialite who lives with her loving husband and shoplifts to get hersel
I'm a Fool
1977-04-05
Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio hom
Confetti
2020-12-04
How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that
Casualties of War
1989-08-18
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril
King on Screen
2023-08-11
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors