Priscilla Pointer
Priscilla Pointer was born in New York City, New York, United States on May 18th, 1924 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 99, Priscilla Pointer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Priscilla Marie Pointer (born May 18,1924) is an American stage, film, and television actress.
She began working in theater, as well as Broadway performances.
Pointer continued to Hollywood to appear in films and on television.
Amy Irving's mother is a mother of six children, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Bartan, as well as documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Jr.'s mother.
Personal life
Pointer was born in New York City. Augusta Leonora (née Davis) was an artist and an illustrator, and her father, Kenneth Keith Pointer, was an artist and an illustrator. Jacob Barrett Cohen, one of her maternal great-grandfathers, was from a Jewish family that had lived in the United States since the 1700s.
Pointer was married to film and stage producer Jules Irving, the Lincoln Center's former artistic director from 1947 to 1979; they are Katie Irving, producer David Irving, and actress Amy Irving. She married actor/producer Robert Symonds, who had been Jules Irving's production partner at Lincoln Center in 1980. She appeared on stage with Symonds several times, and the two were married until the latter's death in 2007.
Career
Pointer has appeared in many films, including Carrie (1976), in which she appeared as the on-screen mother of Amy Irving's character; A Nightmare on Elm Street (1979): Dream Warriors (1991); and Coyote Moon (1999). In comparison to Carrie, she has appeared onscreen with Amy Irving in Honeysuckle Rose (1980) and Carried Away (1996). They appeared in the films The Competition in 1980 and Micki & Maude in 1984.
Pointer appeared in three films directed by her son David Irving: Rumpelstiltskin (a 1987 film version in which her daughter appeared in), Good-bye, Cruel World, and C.H.U.D. Bud the C.H.U.D. II.
Adrienne Harris Rainey (1972–1973) was Pointer's first acting television role on Where the Heart Is. She has appeared on television as Adam-12, Los Angeles, The A-Team, Judging Amy, The Rockford Files, and Cold Case.
Pointer appeared on soap opera Dallas from 1981 to 1983, as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, Cliff Barnes' mother (Ken Kercheval), Pamela Barnes Ewing (Morgan Brittany), and Katherine Wentworth (Morgan Brittany).