Amy Irving
Amy Irving (born Amy Davis Irving September 10, 1953) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Yentl" (1983) and for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for "Crossing Delancey" (1988). She made her Broadway debut in "Amadeus" in 1980 and went on to receive an Obie Award for the 1988 Off-Broadway production of "The Road to Mecca". Her other film appearances include "Carrie" (1976), "The Fury" (1978), "Micki & Maude" (1984), "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (1986) and "Traffic" (2000).
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.
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.
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