Amy Irving
Acting
Born: September 10, 1953 (age 73) · Palo Alto, California, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
House
2004
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Carrie
1976
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Traffic
2000
Hide and Seek
2005
Unsane
2018
Deconstructing Harry
1997
Casualties of War
1989
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991
Alias
2001
The Good Wife
2009
Photos (4)
Movies (39)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Jessica Rabbit (singing voice) (uncredited)
Carrie
Sue Snell
Traffic
Barbara Wakefield
Hide and Seek
Alison Callaway
Casualties of War
Girl on the Train (voice) (uncredited)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Miss Kitty (voice)
The Rage: Carrie 2
Sue Snell
Unsane
Angela Valentini
Deconstructing Harry
Jane
A Mouthful of Air
Bobbi Davis
Tuck Everlasting
Mother Foster
She's Having a Baby
Amy Irving (uncredited)
The Fury
Gillian Bellaver
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Patricia
Adam
Rebecca Buchwald
Crossing Delancey
Isabelle Grossman
A Show of Force
Kate Melendez
I'm Not Rappaport
Clara Gelber
Yentl
Hadass
The Confession
Sarah Fertig
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre")
Benefit of the Doubt
Karen Braswell
Micki & Maude
Maude Salinger
Carried Away
Rosealee Henson
James Dean
Norma Jean
Rumpelstiltskin
Katie
I'm a Fool
Lucy
Blue Ridge Fall
Ellie Perkins
One Tough Cop
FBI Agent Jean Devlin
The Turn of the Screw
The Governess
The Competition
Heidi Joan Schoonover
Honeysuckle Rose
Lily
Dynasty
Amanda Blackwood
Bossa Nova
Mary Ann Simpson
Confetti
Helen
Voices
Rosemarie Lemon
Kleptomania
Diana Allen
Panache
Anne
The Velveteen Rabbit
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (16)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Rebecca Ramsey · 1 eps
House
Alice Tanner · 1 eps
The Good Wife
Phyllis Barsetto · 1 eps
Great Performances
Ellie Dunn · 1 eps
Spin City
Lindsay Shaw · 1 eps
Happy Days
1 eps
Police Woman
June Hummel · 1 eps
The Affair
Nan · 1 eps
The Rookies
1 eps
Alias
Emily Sloane · 9 eps
Soundtrack
Polly · 2 eps
Once an Eagle
Emily Pawlfrey Massengale · 7 eps
The Far Pavilions
Anjuli · 3 eps
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Anastasia "Anna" Anderson · 2 eps
Nightmare Classics
The Governess · 4 eps
Programa do Jô
1 eps
Self / Appearances (8)
Tony Awards
Self - Host · 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King
Self (archive footage)
Acting 'Carrie'
Self
Citizen Steve
Self - Actress / Wife
King on Screen
Self
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
