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Amy Irving
Palo Alto, California, USA
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 Awar…
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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.
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2023
King on Screen
Movie Self
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2021
A Mouthful of Air
Movie Bobbi Davis
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2020
Confetti
Movie Helen
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2019
Soundtrack
TV show Polly
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2018
Unsane
Movie Angela Valentini
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2014
The Affair
TV show Nan
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2011
A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
The Good Wife
TV show Phyllis Barsetto
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2009
Adam
Movie Rebecca Buchwald
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2005
Hide and Seek
Movie Alison Callaway
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2004
House
TV show Alice Tanner
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2004
The Tony Danza Show
TV show Self
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2002
Tuck Everlasting
Movie Mother Foster
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2001
Alias
TV show Emily Sloane
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2001
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Movie Patricia
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2001
Acting 'Carrie'
Movie Self
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2000
Traffic
Movie Barbara Wakefield
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2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Movie Self
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2000
Programa do Jô
TV show
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2000
Bossa Nova
Movie Mary Ann Simpson
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1999
Blue Ridge Fall
Movie Ellie Perkins
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Rebecca Ramsey
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1999
The Confession
Movie Sarah Fertig
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1999
The Rage: Carrie 2
Movie Sue Snell
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1998
One Tough Cop
Movie FBI Agent Jean Devlin
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1997
Deconstructing Harry
Movie Jane
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1996
I'm Not Rappaport
Movie Clara Gelber
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1996
Spin City
TV show Lindsay Shaw
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1996
Carried Away
Movie Rosealee Henson
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1995
Kleptomania
Movie Diana Allen
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1994
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Movie Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre")
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self
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1993
Benefit of the Doubt
Movie Karen Braswell
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1991
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Movie Miss Kitty (voice)
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1990
A Show of Force
Movie Kate Melendez
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1989
Casualties of War
Movie Girl on the Train (voice) (uncredited)
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1989
Nightmare Classics
TV show The Governess
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1989
The Turn of the Screw
Movie The Governess
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1988
Crossing Delancey
Movie Isabelle Grossman
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1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie Jessica Rabbit (singing voice) (uncredited)
