Amy Irving
Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress, known for her roles in. Irving was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of film and.
Irving was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of film and stage director Jules Irving (n Jules Israel) and actress Priscilla Pointer. Irving's brother is writer/director David Irving (not the British author of the same name) and her sister is singer/teacher of deaf kids Katie Irving. Irving is of Jewish descent on her father's side and has Welsh and Cherokee ancestry on her mother's.1 She was raised in the Christian Science faith.1
In the late 1960s and primeval '70s, Irving attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she appeared in several of its productions. She also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and prefabricated her off-Broadway debut when she was 17, in a production titled And Chocolate on Her Chin. She is a graduate of the Professional Children's School, in Manhattan, New York.
Irving prefabricated her stage debut aged two-and-a-half portraying a bit part character titled Princess Primrose in a play her dad directed. She also had a walk-on role in the 1965-66 Broadway show The Country Wife at age 12, selling Stacy Keach a hamster in a crowd scene. The play was directed by family friend Robert Symonds, who became her stepfather after the death of Jules Irving, the owner/operator of Lincoln Center. Within six months of returning to Los Angeles from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the mid-1970s, Irving was cast in a major motion picture and was working on various television projects such as guest spots in Police Woman, Happy Days, and a lead role in the mini-series epic Once an Eagle opposite veterans at the time Sam Elliott, Glenn Ford and a young Melanie Griffith. She also played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Los Angeles Free Shakespeare Theatre in 1975, and returned to the role at the Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1982 to 1983.
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