Early life

Irving was born in Palo Alto, California. Her father was film and stage director Jules Irving (born Jules Israel) and her mother is actress Priscilla Pointer. Her brother is writer/director David Irving (not the British author of the same name) and her sister is singer/teacher of deaf children Katie Irving. Irving's father was Jewish, as was one of Irving's maternal great-great-grandfathers. Irving was raised in Christian Science, and her family observed no religious traditions.

Irving attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and appeared in several productions there. She also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and made her off-Broadway debut at age 17 in And Chocolate on Her Chin. She is a graduate of the Professional Children's School, in Manhattan, New York.

Career

Irving's first stage appearance was at age 2, portraying a bit-part character ("Princess Primrose") in a play which her father directed. She had a walk-on role in the 1965-66 Broadway show The Country Wife at age 12. Her character was to sell a hamster to Stacy Keach in a crowd scene. The play was directed by family friend Robert Symonds, the owner/operator of Lincoln Center, and who would become her stepfather after her father died and her mother remarried. 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 TV projects such as guest spots in Police Woman, Happy Days, and a lead role in the mini-series epic Once an Eagle opposite veterans Sam Elliott and Glenn Ford, and a young Melanie Griffith. She 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 (1982-1983).

Irving auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars, which went to Carrie Fisher. She then starred in the Brian DePalma-directed films The Fury as Gillian Bellaver, and Carrie as Sue Snell (her mother was also in Carrie). In 1999 she reprised her role as Sue Snell in "The Rage: Carrie 2". She starred with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980 in The Competition. Also in 1980 she appeared in Honeysuckle Rose which also marked her on-screen singing debut. Both her and Dyan Cannon's characters were country-and-western singers, and both actresses did their own singing in the film. In 1983 she featured in Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl,for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1984 she co-starred in Micki + Maude, In 1988 she was in Susan Sandler's Crossing Delancey (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination). That same year, she also gave another singing performance in the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, providing the singing voice for Jessica Rabbit. In 1997 she appeared in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry. Irving also appeared in the TV show Alias as Emily Sloane, portrayed Princess Anjuli in the big-budget miniseries epic The Far Pavilions and headlined the lavish TV production Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna. More recently Irving appeared in the films Traffic (2000), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) and an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2001.

Irving's stage work includes on-Broadway shows such as Amadeus (replacing Jane Seymour due to pregnancy) at the Broadhurst Theatre for nine months, Heartbreak House with Rex Harrison at the Circle in the Square Theatre, Broken Glass at the Booth Theatre and Three Sisters with Jeanne Tripplehorn and Lili Taylor at the Roundabout Theatre. Additional off-Broadway credits include: The Heidi Chronicles, The Road to Mecca, The Vagina Monologues in both London and New York, The Glass Menagerie with her mother, Celadine, a world premiere at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ and the 2006 one-woman play A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, by Marta Góes, which was a Primary Stages production at the 59E59 Theaters. In 1994, Irving and Anthony Hopkins hosted the 48th Tony Awards at the Gershwin Theatre, New York.

Irving's last Broadway appearance was in the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia at New York's Lincoln Center during its 2006-07 season. In 2009 she played the title role in Saint Joan, in an audio version by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

In May 2010 Irving made her Opera Theatre of Saint Louis debut in the role of Desiree Armfeldt in Isaac Mizrahi's directorial debut of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

In October 2010 Irving guest-starred in "Unwritten," the third episode of the seventh season, of the Fox series, House M.D.. In 2013, Irving appeared in a recurring role in the cancelled Zero Hour.

Irving currently resides in New York City.

Awards and honors

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. She was the winner of the category Worst Supporting Actress at the first annual Razzie Awards in 1981 for her film Honeysuckle Rose, beating actresses including Betsy Palmer for Friday the 13th and Elizabeth Ashley for Windows.

Personal life

Irving dated American film director Steven Spielberg from 1976 to 1980. She then had a brief relationship with Willie Nelson, her co-star in the film Honeysuckle Rose. The breakup with Spielberg cost her the role of Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark, which he had offered to her at the time, but they soon got back together and finally married from 1985 to 1989; upon their divorce she received an estimated $100 million settlement after a judge controversially vacated a prenuptial agreement that had been written on a napkin. In 1990 she became romantically and professionally involved with Brazilian film director Bruno Barreto; they were married in 1996 and divorced in 2005. She has two sons, Max Samuel (with Spielberg) (born June 13, 1985), and Gabriel Davis (with Barreto) (born May 4, 1990). She is married to Kenneth Bowser, Jr., a documentary film maker, most notable for making Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, an adaptation of a book by Peter Biskind.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Carrie	Sue Snell
1978	Fury, TheThe Fury	Gillian Bellaver
1979	Voices	Rosemarie Lemon
1980	Honeysuckle Rose	Lily Ramsey	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
1980	Competition, TheThe Competition	Heidi Joan Schoonover
1983	Yentl	Hadass Vishkower	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
1984	Micki & Maude	Maude Salinger
1987	Rumpelstiltskin	Katie
1988	Crossing Delancey	Isabelle Grossman	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1990	Show of Force, AA Show of Force	Kate Melendez
1991	American Tail: Fievel Goes West, AnAn American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Miss Kitty (voice)
1993	Benefit of the Doubt	Karen Braswell
1995	Kleptomania	Diana Allen
1995	Call of the Wylie	Mel	Short film
1996	Carried Away	Rosealee Henson
1996	I'm Not Rappaport	Clara Gelber
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Jane
1998	One Tough Cop	FBI Agent Jean Devlin
1999	Confession, TheThe Confession	Sarah Fertig
1999	Rage: Carrie 2, TheThe Rage: Carrie 2	Sue Snell
1999	Blue Ridge Fall	Ellie Perkins
2000	Bossa Nova	Mary Ann Simpson
2000	Traffic	Barbara Wakefield	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2001	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Patricia	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast
2002	Tuck Everlasting	Mother Foster
2005	Hide and Seek	Alison Callaway
2009	Adam	Rebecca Buchwald

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Rookies, TheThe Rookies	Cindy Mullins	Episode: "Reading, Writing and Angel Dust"
1975	Police Woman	June Hummel	Episode: "The Hit"
1975	Happy Days	Olivia	Episode: "Tell It to the Marines"
1976	James Dean	Norma Jean	Television movie
1976	Dynasty	Amanda Blackwood	Television movie
1976	Panache	Anne	Television movie
1976-1977	Once an Eagle	Emily Pawlfrey Massengale	7 episodes
1977	I'm a Fool	Lucy	Television movie
1984	Far Pavilions, TheThe Far Pavilions	Anjuli	3 episodes
1985	Great Performances	Ellie Dunn	Episode: "Heartbreak House"
1986	Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna	Anna Anderson	Television movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film
1989	Nightmare Classics	The Governess	Episode: "The Turn of the Screw"
1998	Stories from My Childhood	Anastasia (voice)	Episode: "Beauty and the Beast"
1999	Spin City	Lindsay Shaw	Episode: "The Great Debate"
2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Rebecca Ramsey	Episode: "Repression"
2001	American Masters	Voice of Novels	Episode: "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams"
2002-2005	Alias	Emily Sloane	9 episodes
2010	House	Alice Tanner	Episode: "Unwritten"
2013	Zero Hour	Melanie Lynch	10 episodes
2015	Good Wife, TheThe Good Wife	Phyllis Barsetto	Episode: "Innocents"

Stage Roles

Broadway

• The Country Wife (1965-1966) (Ensemble)
• Amadeus (1981-1982)
• Heartbreak House (1983-1984)
• Broken Glass (1994)
• Three Sisters (1997)
• The Coast of Utopia (2006-2007) (Parts 1 & 2)

Off Broadway

• The Road to Mecca (1988)
• Ghosts (2002)
• The Guys (2002)
• The Exonerated (2004)
• Celadine (2004)
• A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop (2006)
• The Waters of March (2008)
• We Live Here (2011)

Additional

• Happy Days TV series, Original Air Date: December 16, 1975, "Tell It to the Marines" "Olivia Hunsaker"
• Romeo and Juliet (1975), Los Angeles, CA. and (1982) Seattle, WA.
• Blithe Spirit (1983), Santa Fe, NM.
• The Glass Menagerie (1984), (With her mother)
• Three Sisters (1987), Williamstown, MA.
• The Heidi Chronicles (1990), Los Angeles, CA.
• A Little Night Music (2010), Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO.

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