Acclaimed stage and screen actress Priscilla Pointer, who starred alongside her daughter Amy Irving in several films, has died. She was 100.
Pointer died “peacefully in her sleep” on Monday 28 April according to family.
Her son, writer and director David Irving, confirmed that Pointer passed away at an assisted living facility in Connecticut, USA, per The Hollywood Reporter.
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The actress starred as her real life daughter Amy’s on-screen mother in the Brian De Palma horror movie Carrie.
She then appeared with her daughter in six other movies including Honeysuckle Rose (1980), The Competition (1980), Micki + Maude (1984), Rumpelstiltskin (1987) – which was directed by her son – A Show of Force (1990) and Carried Away (1996).
Pointer also portrayed the onscreen mothers of Diane Keaton in the 1977 film Looking for Mr Goodbar, Sean Penn in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet (1986).
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On the silver screen, Pointer starred as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, the mother of Victoria Principal’s character, on the American TV show Dallas in the early ’80s.
Other roles of Pointers included starring in N.Y.P.D. (1969), Sons and Daughters (1974), Police Woman (1976), Nickelodeon (1976), The Onion Field (1979) and Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Her final acting role, per IMDB, was in the 2008 film Sweet Nothing in My Ear in which she voiced the character of Sally.
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Off the screen, Pointer worked on Broadway with the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center company during the ’60s and ’70s.
Her Broadway debut was in a revival of Danon’s Death. She also starred on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Country Wife, among others.
She worked under the direction of her first husband, the late Jules Irving and Herbert Blau.
The three, along with Blau’s wife Beatrice Manley had co-founded the San Fransisco Actor’s Workshop in 1952.
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It was the first theatre group outside of New York City to sign an “Off Broadway” Equity agreement. It premiered modern American classics like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
Pointer met and married Irving in 1947 and the pair welcome three children together Katie, David and Amy.
Irving died of a heart attack in 1979. Two years, Pointer remarried actor and producer Robert Symonds. He died in 2007.
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In the wake of her mother’s death, Amy shared the news to social media.
“Priscilla 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,” she wrote.
“She most definitely will be missed.”
Pointer died just weeks before what would have been her 101st birthday on the 18th May.
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Pointer is survived by daughters Amy and Katy, her son David, her son-in-law Kenneth Bowser, eight grandchildren and other family members.
One of her grandchildren Gabriel Barreto posted his own tribute to X, writing, “my grandmother, legend of stage and screen, Priscilla Pointer passed away peacefully in her sleep yesterday at 100 years old”.
“She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a true gift to the craft of acting. She will be missed by so many.”
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