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, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. 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 and the film
Honeysuckle Rose (1980). She was cast in Barbra Streisand's musical epic
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