{"id":6501,"date":"2025-04-29T19:38:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:28:34","slug":"carrie-and-dallas-actress-priscilla-pointer-dies-aged-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/carrie-and-dallas-actress-priscilla-pointer-dies-aged-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie and Dallas actress Priscilla Pointer dies aged 100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Priscilla Pointer, the mother of Carrie’s Amy Irving, has died aged 100 (Picture: Peter Kramer\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The family of Priscilla Pointer have confirmed the actress\u2019 death aged 100.<\/p>\n

Best known for playing the mother of her real-life daughter Amy Irving in the 1976 movie Carrie<\/a> and for appearing in the 1980s soap Dallas<\/a>, Pointer died in Ridgefield, Connecticut this week.<\/p>\n

Posting a photo of her mum on Instagram confirming her death, Amy wrote that Pointer died ‘peacefully in her sleep at the age of 100’.<\/p>\n

She added: ‘Hopefully to run off with her 2 adoring husbands and her many dogs. She most definitely will be missed.’<\/p>\n

Born in New York<\/a> City in 1924 to parents who were artists, Pointer began her career in the late 1940s, first appearing in theatre productions including ones on Broadway like A Streetcar Named Desire.<\/p>\n

She then moved to Hollywood where she started being cast in television shows from the early 1950s, the first being China Smith in 1954.<\/p>\n

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She appeared in six films with her daughter, as well as on the soap Dallas (Picture: Charles Knight\/ Rex\/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After taking a long hiatus from acting, she returned to the industry in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

Her first major role was on the TV soap opera Where the Heart Is as Adrienne Harris Rainey for a year from 1972.<\/p>\n

She was also a guest star on Dallas playing Rebecca Barnes Wentworth from seasons 4-6.<\/p>\n

Her first film role was portraying her real-life daughter Amy Irving\u2019s mother in Carrie.<\/p>\n

Other notable projects included The Onion Field, Mommie Dearest, Twilight Zone: The Movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Blue Velvet and Coyote Moon.<\/p>\n

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Another notable project was alongside Kyle Maclachlan and Frances Bay in David Lynch’s 1986 movie Blue Velvet (Picture: De Laurentiis\/ Kobal\/ Rex\/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She also went on to again play her daughter Amy\u2019s mother on screen in 1980\u2019s Honeysuckle Rose and Carried Away in 1996.<\/p>\n

They both featured in another five movies together including The Competition in 1980 and Micki & Maude in 1984 too.<\/p>\n

Pointer also appeared in three films directed by her son \u2013 Rumpelstiltskin, Good-bye, Cruel World, and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.<\/p>\n

Her last TV appearance was on Cold Case in 2006 while her final film role was in The Rage: Carrie 2 in 1999.<\/p>\n

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Her first husband was actor Robert Symonds (Picture: Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pointer was married to film and stage director Jules Irving from 1947 until his death from a heart attack aged 54 in 1979. They were parents to Amy, David and another daughter – singer Katie.<\/p>\n

She then went on to marry actor Robert Symonds in 1980. He died aged 80 in 2007.<\/p>\n

In a 1994 interview with the Los Angeles Times Amy recalled growing up in theatres.<\/p>\n

‘Instead of using babysitters, Mama would put us in the front row where she could watch us from the stage,’ she said.<\/p>\n

‘My father was an amazing artistic director, and the values of the Actor\u2019s Workshop were special. It was about the work, not money or fame.’<\/p>\n

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Actress Priscilla Pointer, the mother of Carrie’s Amy Irving, has died aged 100 (Picture: Peter Kramer\/ Getty Images) The family of Priscilla Pointer have confirmed the actress\u2019 death aged 100. Best known for playing the mother of her real-life daughter Amy Irving in the 1976 movie Carrie and for appearing in the 1980s soap Dallas, Pointer died in Ridgefield, Connecticut this week. Posting a photo of her mum on Instagram confirming her death, Amy wrote that Pointer died ‘peacefully in … Continue reading “Carrie and Dallas actress Priscilla Pointer dies aged 100”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}