Priscilla Pointer, Carrie and Dallas star and mother of Amy Irving, dies at 100
Pointer starred alongside her daughter several times
Priscilla Pointer, the actor known for her performances in Carrie and Dallas, has died. She was 100.
The New York City-born actor starred in several films with her daughter, Amy Irving, including playing her onscreen mother in Carrie.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pointer died on Monday, April 28 at an assisted living facility in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Her death was announced by her son, writer and director David Irving.
Pointer was born on May 18, 1924, to artist parents. She started her career in the theatre in New York in the 1940s, appearing on Broadway and in touring productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Country Wife, and The Condemned of Altona.
In 1947 she married actor Jules Irving, who went on to co-found the San Francisco Actor's Workshop and became the artistic director of Lincoln Center. The couple were married until Irvingās death from a heart attack in 1979. They had three children: Katie, David and Amy.
Pointer appeared in the Singapore-set television series China Smith in 1954 before taking a long hiatus from acting. She returned to the screen in an episode of cop show NYPD in 1969, and made her film debut opposite her daughter in Brian DePalmaās horror classic Carrie in 1976. She went on to play her real-life daughterās onscreen mother in two more films, 1980ās Honeysuckle Rose and 1996ās Carried Away. Additionally, they both starred in 1980ās The Competition, 1984ās Micki & Maude, 1987ās Rumpelstiltskin and 1990ās A Show of Force.

Pointer carved out something of a niche as a screen mother. In 1977 she was Diane Keatonās in Looking for Mr Goodbar, and in 1985 she was Sean Pennās in The Falcon and the Snowman. In 1986, she played Kyle MacLachlanās mother in David Lynchās Blue Velvet.
On television she played Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, the mother of Victoria Principalās character, on the long-running soap Dallas from 1981 to 1983.
She continued to act later in her life, appearing in episodes of The Flash and ER in the 1990s and Judging Amy and Cold Case in the 2000s.

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She was married a second time, to the actor and director Robert Symonds, from 1980 until his death in 2007.
In a post on Instagram, Amy Irving wrote: āPriscilla Pointer, acclaimed stage television and film actress, and mother of David, Katie, and Amy Irving, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 100, hopefully to run off with her 2 adoring husbands and her many dogs.
āShe most definitely will be missed.ā
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