Editing Amy Irving (section)

==Career==
Irving's first stage appearance was at nine months old in the production "Rumplestiltskin" where her father brought her on the stage to play the part of his child who he trades for spun gold. Then at age two, she portrayed 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 associate director of the [[Lincoln Center]] Repertory Theater, and who later became 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 (TV series)|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).

[[Image:Opening night537.jpg|Irving at the opening night for ''Heartbreak House'', December 1983|right|thumb]]
Irving auditioned for the role of [[Princess Leia]] in ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'', which went to [[Carrie Fisher]]. She then starred in the Brian DePalma-directed films ''[[Carrie (1976 film)|Carrie]]'' as [[Sue Snell]] (her mother was also in ''Carrie''), and ''[[The Fury (1978 film)|The Fury]]'' as Gillian Bellaver. In 1999, she reprised her role as Sue Snell in ''[[The Rage: Carrie 2]]''. She starred with [[Richard Dreyfuss]] in 1980 in ''[[The Competition (1980 film)|The Competition]]''. Also in 1980, she appeared in ''[[Honeysuckle Rose (film)|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|Barbra Streisand's]] directorial debut, ''[[Yentl (film)|Yentl]]'', for which she received an Academy Award nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]. In 1984, she co-starred in ''[[Micki + Maude]]''. In 1988, she was in ''[[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 (TV series)|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 film)|Traffic]]'' (2000), ''[[Tuck Everlasting (2002 film)|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 ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (replacing [[Jane Seymour (actress)|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 (play)|Broken Glass]]'' at the [[Booth Theatre]] and ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' with [[Jeanne Tripplehorn]] and [[Lili Taylor]] at the [[Roundabout Theatre]]. Additional Off-Broadway credits include: ''[[The Heidi Chronicles]]''; ''[[The Road to Mecca (play)|The Road to Mecca]]''; ''The Vagina Monologues'' in both London and New York; ''The Glass Menagerie'' with her mother, actress [[Priscilla Pointer]]; ''Celadine'', a world premiere at [[George Street Playhouse]] in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]; and the 2006 one-woman play, ''A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop''. In 1994, she 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 (play)|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 [[Unwritten (House)|third episode]] of the seventh season of the Fox series ''[[House (TV series)|House M.D.]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Irving-Baker-House-1023052.aspx|title=Amy Irving and Dylan Baker to Guest-Star on House|work=TV Guide |publisher=TVGuide.com|access-date=September 15, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100916225111/http://www.tvguide.com/News/Irving-Baker-House-1023052.aspx| archive-date= 16 September 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 2013, Irving appeared in a recurring role in ''[[Zero Hour (2013 TV series)|Zero Hour]]''. In 2018, she co-starred in the psychological horror film ''[[Unsane]]'', directed by [[Steven Soderbergh]].<ref>{{cite web|work=MovieWeb|title=Unsane Trailer: Steven Soderbergh's First Horror Movie Is Here|author=Gallagher, Brian|date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190220022955/https://movieweb.com/unsane-movie-trailer-2018-steven-soderbergh/|archive-date=February 20, 2019|url=https://movieweb.com/unsane-movie-trailer-2018-steven-soderbergh/|access-date=February 20, 2019|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In April 2023, Irving released her first album, ''Born In a Trunk'', featuring 10 cover songs pulled from her life and career.<ref>{{cite web | last=Fekadu | first=Mesfin| title=Oscar-Nominated Actress Amy Irving Set to Release First Album (Exclusive) | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=15 February 2023 | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/amy-irving-first-album-born-in-a-trunk-1235326474/ | access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref>