Amy Irving
Acting • Born 1953-09-10
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.
Filmography
62 credits
Yentl
Movie • 1983
Hadass
Deconstructing Harry
Movie • 1997
Jane
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Movie • 1991
Miss Kitty (voice)
Hide and Seek
Movie • 2005
Alison Callaway
The Confession
Movie • 1999
Sarah Fertig
Adam
Movie • 2009
Rebecca Buchwald
Honeysuckle Rose
Movie • 1980
Lily
Carrie
Movie • 1976
Sue Snell
The Rage: Carrie 2
Movie • 1999
Sue Snell
Acting 'Carrie'
Movie • 2001
Self
A Mouthful of Air
Movie • 2021
Bobbi Davis
The Fury
Movie • 1978
Gillian Bellaver
Citizen Steve
Movie • 1987
Self - Actress / Wife
Crossing Delancey
Movie • 1988
Isabelle Grossman
Tuck Everlasting
Movie • 2002
Mother Foster
Micki & Maude
Movie • 1984
Maude Salinger
The Competition
Movie • 1980
Heidi Joan Schoonover
Benefit of the Doubt
Movie • 1993
Karen Braswell
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Movie • 1994
Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre")
Carried Away
Movie • 1996
Rosealee Henson
I'm Not Rappaport
Movie • 1996
Clara Gelber
Rumpelstiltskin
Movie • 1987
Katie
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Movie • 2001
Patricia
Bossa Nova
Movie • 2000
Mary Ann Simpson
The Turn of the Screw
Movie • 1989
The Governess
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Movie • 2000
Self
Voices
Movie • 1979
Rosemarie Lemon
Blue Ridge Fall
Movie • 1999
Ellie Perkins
The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Panache
Movie • 1976
Anne
One Tough Cop
Movie • 1998
FBI Agent Jean Devlin
Dynasty
Movie • 1976
Amanda Blackwood
A Show of Force
Movie • 1990
Kate Melendez
James Dean
Movie • 1976
Norma Jean
Unsane
Movie • 2018
Angela Valentini
She's Having a Baby
Movie • 1988
Amy Irving (uncredited)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie • 1988
Jessica Rabbit (singing voice) (uncredited)
Traffic
Movie • 2000
Barbara Wakefield
Kleptomania
Movie • 1995
Diana Allen
I'm a Fool
Movie • 1977
Lucy
Confetti
Movie • 2020
Helen
Casualties of War
Movie • 1989
Girl on the Train (voice) (uncredited)
King on Screen
Movie • 2023
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Alias
TV • 2001
Emily Sloane
Spin City
TV • 1996
Lindsay Shaw
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Rebecca Ramsey
Happy Days
TV • 1974
Once an Eagle
TV • 1976
Emily Pawlfrey Massengale
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Nightmare Classics
TV • 1989
The Governess
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
The Far Pavilions
TV • 1984
Anjuli
Programa do Jô
TV • 2000
House
TV • 2004
Alice Tanner
Soundtrack
TV • 2019
Polly
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Ellie Dunn
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
TV • 1986
Anastasia "Anna" Anderson
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Phyllis Barsetto
Police Woman
TV • 1974
June Hummel
The Affair
TV • 2014
Nan