Priscilla Pointer

Biography

Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s.

Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto.

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Known For

Blue Velvet

A Killing Affair

Carrie

Acting 'Carrie'

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

The Onion Field

Carried Away

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Filmography

2011 Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

as Mrs. Beaumont

2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

as Self

2008 Sweet Nothing in My Ear

as Sally (voice)

2003 Cold Case

as Lillian Vine (2006)

2001 Acting 'Carrie'

as Self

1999 Inferno

as Mrs. Henry Howard

1999 Judging Amy

as Margaret Palmer

1997 Alone

as Susan Hight

1996 Carried Away

as Lily Henson

1994 Touched by an Angel

as Elizabeth Carpenter

1994 ER

as Mrs. Abernathy

1994 The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")

1994 Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

as Barbara

1993 The Magic Bubble

as Grandma

1991 Runaway Father

as Mary Bennett

1990 Disturbed

as Sr. Francine

1990 The Flash

as Nora Allen