Priscilla Pointer, the achieved stage and display screen actress who was additionally the mom of Oscar-nominated actress Amy Irving and writer-director David Irving, died Monday at an assisted dwelling facility in Ridgefield, Conn. She was 100.

Amy Irving confirmed the information in a heartfelt Instagram submit and mentioned her mom "most positively will likely be missed." Irving's son Gabriel Barreto paid tribute to Pointer as properly, sharing pictures of her by the years and writing, "She was an exquisite mom, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a real reward to the craft of performing."

Pointer appeared in a number of the most acclaimed movies of the previous century, together with Brian De Palma's Carrie and David Lynch's Blue Velvet. She additionally stays beloved for her function as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, the firebrand she performed on 4 seasons of Dallas.

Pointer started her profession on stage, and co-founded the San Francisco Actor's Workshop with theater director Herbert Blau; his spouse, the actress Beatrice Manley; and Jules Irving, whom Pointer married. The couple then moved to New York, the place Irving turned the primary producing director of the Repertory Firm of the Vivian Beaumont Theater of Lincoln Heart, and Pointer starred in productions like A Streetcar Named Want.

The couple had three kids: Amy, David, and Katie. After Jules Irving's demise from a coronary heart assault in 1979, Pointer married Robert Symonds, who had been Irving's producing companion. Pointer and Symonds remained collectively till his demise from prostate most cancers in 2007.

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Pointer's first display screen credit got here by way of a two-episode stint on the TV collection China Smith, however her first main display screen function got here in 1972, as Adrienne Harris Rainey on the daytime cleaning soap The place the Coronary heart Is.

She made her theatrical movie debut alongside daughter Amy within the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. Amy performed Sissy Spacek's sympathetic classmate Sue Snell, and Pointer performed her mom, Eleanor. Mom and daughter would star collectively in a number of subsequent movies, together with Jerry Schatzberg's Honeysuckle Rose, through which they once more performed mom and daughter, and the household affair Rumpelstiltskin, directed by son David.

Pointer additionally appeared in movies together with Searching for Mr. Goodbar, The Onion Subject, and Twilight Zone: The Film, and on TV collection together with Judging Amy, ER, and L.A. Legislation.

When Amy Irving was requested just lately about the perfect piece {of professional} recommendation she'd ever been given, she recalled "doing a miniseries, the place I had a week-long function, and I needed to love this man… however I didn't love this man… I went house that evening, and I referred to as my mom, Priscilla Pointer, who’s an actress, and she or he instructed me what to do in that situation. She mentioned: 'Amy, it's very straightforward; you simply must think about that he doesn't have very lengthy to dwell.' I believed that was simply good."

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