1976Nominee
Best Performance
Carrie
Priscilla Pointer
Actor
New York City, New York, USA
May 18, 1924
Biography
Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1986Winner
Best Performance
Blue Velvet
1983Nominee
Best Performance
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Career Highlights
1999Highlight
Best Performance
Inferno
1979Highlight
Best Performance
The Onion Field