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Full Amy Irving Biography
Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress, known for her films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie and her Oscar-nominated role in Yentl.
Irving was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of film and stage director Jules Irving (née Jules Israel) and actress Priscilla Pointer. Irving's brother is writer/director David Irving (not the British holocaust denier of the same name), and her sister is singer Katie Irving. Irving is of Jewish descent on her father's side and has Welsh and Cherokee ancestry on her mother's. She was raised in Christian Science.
In the late '60s and early '70s, Irving attended the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where she appeared in a number of their productions. She also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,and made her off-Broadway debut when she was seventeen.
Irving's stage work includes The Heidi Chronicles, The Road to Mecca, Celadine, a world premiere at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ and, more recently, the 2006 one-woman play, A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, by Marta Góes, which was a Primary Stages production at the 59E59 Theaters.
Irving starred in the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia at New York's Lincoln Center.
Irving received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Yentl, Golden Globe nominations for her performances in the films Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna and Crossing Delancey, and an Obie Award for her stage performance in The Road to Mecca.
Irving holds the distinction of being one of only two people to be nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie Award for the same performance. Irving was nominated for both Best and Worst Supporting Actress for her work in Yentl. Only James Coco achieved the same feat for his work in Only When I Laugh.
Irving was married to the American film director Steven Spielberg from 1985 to 1989; upon their divorce she received an estimated $100 million settlement. In 1990 she became romantically and professionally involved with the Brazilian film director Bruno Barreto, and they were married in 1996. She has two sons, Max Samuel (with Spielberg), and Gabriel (with Barreto). Irving and Barreto were divorced in 2005. |
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