Editing Amy Irving (section)

==Early life==
Irving was born on September 10, 1953, in Palo Alto.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-irving-in-praise-of-older-women/|title=Amy Irving: In Praise Of Older Women|date=26 April 2006|work=CBS News|access-date=1 July 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205232104/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-irving-in-praise-of-older-women/ |archive-date=December 5, 2020 }}</ref> Her father was film and stage director [[Jules Irving]] (born Jules Israel) and her mother was actress [[Priscilla Pointer]].<ref name=":0" /> Her brother is writer and director [[David Irving (director)|David Irving]] and her sister, Katie Irving, is a singer and teacher of deaf children. Irving's father was of Russian-Jewish descent,<ref name=lat/> and one of Irving's maternal great-great-grandfathers was also Jewish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americanjewisharchives.org/FAJF/results.php?pg=37 |title=First American Jewish Families |publisher=American Jewish Archives |date=September 21, 2015 |access-date= October 4, 2016}}</ref> Irving was raised in her mother's faith of [[Christian Science]], and her family observed no religious traditions.<ref name=lat>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-17-ca-47056-story.html |title=The Amy Chronicles|author=Pacheo, Patrick |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 8, 1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104210801/https://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-17/entertainment/ca-47056_1_amy-irving/2|archive-date=January 4, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

Her father co-founded the [[Actor's Workshop]] and she was active in local theater as a child.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2007/02/07/famous-and-almost-famous-people-raised-in-palo-alto/|work=The Mercury News|title=Famous – and almost famous – people raised in Palo Alto|date=7 February 2007|access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/archive/amy-irvings-enjoying-a-close-encounter-of-two-kinds-love-with-steven-spielberg-and-stardom-in-the-fury-vol-9-no-12/|work=People|title=Amy Irving's Enjoying a Close Encounter of Two Kinds: Love with Steven Spielberg and Stardom in 'The Fury'|author=Berns, Cherie|date=27 March 1978|volume=9|number=12|access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref> She attended the [[American Conservatory Theater]] in San Francisco<ref name=":0" /> 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. As a teenager, Irving moved with her family to [[Manhattan|Manhattan, New York]], where her father was appointed the director of the [[Lincoln Center|Lincoln Center Repertory Theater]].<ref name=lat/> She graduated from the [[Professional Children's School]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcs-nyc.org/page.cfm?page=1302|work=Professional Children's School|title=Alumni: Distinguished Alumni|access-date=18 July 2017|archive-date=23 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323171251/http://www.pcs-nyc.org/page.cfm?page=1302|url-status=dead}}</ref> and made her [[Off-Broadway]] debut at age 17 in ''And Chocolate on Her Chin''.