Cast & creator
Amy Irving
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, House, The Good Wife
Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress and singer, who worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Palo Alto, California, to actors Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer, Irving spent her early life in San Francisco before her family relocated to New York City during her teenage years. In New York, she made her Broadway debut in The Country Wife (1965–1966) at age 13. Irving subsequently studied theater at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), followed by a lead role in the 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury (1978). In 1980, Irving appeared in a Broadway production of Amadeus before being cast in Yentl (1983), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1988, she received an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in a production of The Road to Mecca, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Irving went on to appear in the original Broadway production of Broken Glass (1994) and the revival of Three Sisters (1997). In film, she starred in the ensemble comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997), and reprised her role in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) before co-starring opposite Michael Douglas in Steven Soderbergh's crime-drama Traffic (2000). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) and Adam (2009). From 2006 to 2007, she starred in the Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia. In 2018, she reunited with Soderbergh, appearing in a supporting role in his horror film Unsane.
Also known as: Amy Davis Irving
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film credits
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television credits
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1953–2023 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (66)
Showing 66 of 66 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Rebecca Ramsey
1999
House
Alice Tanner
2004
The Good Wife
Phyllis Barsetto
2009
Great Performances
Ellie Dunn
1971
Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956
Happy Days
1974
Spin City
Lindsay Shaw
1996
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
The Affair
Nan
2014
Police Woman
June Hummel
1974
The Rookies
1972
The Oscars
Self
1953
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Jessica Rabbit (singing voice) (uncredited)
1988
Carrie
Sue Snell
1976
Alias
Emily Sloane
2001
Traffic
Barbara Wakefield
2000
The George Lucas Talk Show: Live
Self
Soundtrack
Polly
2019
Hide and Seek
Alison Callaway
2005
Casualties of War
Girl on the Train (voice) (uncredited)
1989
Once an Eagle
Emily Pawlfrey Massengale
1976
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Miss Kitty (voice)
1991
The Rage: Carrie 2
Sue Snell
1999
The Far Pavilions
Anjuli
1984
A Mouthful of Air
Bobbi Davis
2021
Unsane
Angela Valentini
2018
Deconstructing Harry
Jane
1997
Tuck Everlasting
Mother Foster
2002
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Anastasia "Anna" Anderson
1986
Nightmare Classics
The Governess
1989
Rumpelstiltskin
Katie
1987
The Fury
Gillian Bellaver
1978
She's Having a Baby
Amy Irving (uncredited)
1988
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre")
1994
The Confession
Sarah Fertig
1999
Adam
Rebecca Buchwald
2009
A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King
Self (archive footage)
2011
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Patricia
2001
King on Screen
Self
2023
Crossing Delancey
Isabelle Grossman
1988
James Dean
Norma Jean
1976
Yentl
Hadass
1983
Carried Away
Rosealee Henson
1996Carried Away
Executive Producer
1996
A Show of Force
Kate Melendez
1990
Programa do Jô
2000
I'm Not Rappaport
Clara Gelber
1996
Citizen Steve
Self - Actress / Wife
1987
Acting 'Carrie'
Self
2001
Micki & Maude
Maude Salinger
1984
One Tough Cop
FBI Agent Jean Devlin
1998
Benefit of the Doubt
Karen Braswell
1993
Blue Ridge Fall
Ellie Perkins
1999
Dynasty
Amanda Blackwood
1976
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
2000
I'm a Fool
Lucy
1977
The Turn of the Screw
The Governess
1989
The Competition
Heidi Joan Schoonover
1980
Voices
Rosemarie Lemon
1979
Honeysuckle Rose
Lily
1980
Bossa Nova
Mary Ann Simpson
2000
Confetti
Helen
2020
Kleptomania
Diana Allen
1995
Panache
Anne
1976
The Velveteen Rabbit
Narrator (voice)
1988