Amy Irving

Born into a family of filmmakers and actors, Amy Irving has also become an experienced and versatile actress who with success both on screen and on stage.

Early Accomplishments

She was not even a year old yet when she first appeared in a play titled Rumplestiltskin in 1954. Trained at her father’s actors’ workshop, she featured in a Broadway piece titled The Country Wife (1965-66).

Her screen debut came in a 1975 episode of The Rookies and made a film debut in 1976’s Carrie.

Best Known For

Some of Amy’s most famous screen appearances have come in Crossing Delancey (1988), Yentl (1983), Traffic (2000), Adam (2006) and in the 1986 TV film, The Mystery Of Anna.

Sexual Orientation

Amy is straight and has been the wife of Kenneth Bowser since 2007. She dated Steven Spielberg for 4 years from 1976 and after getting back in 1981, they were married in 1985 for 4 years. She earned an whopping $100 million in divorce settlements.

She also dated Bruno Barreto for 7 years before getting married in 1996 but split 9 years later. She had a brief romance with Willie Nelson in 1980 too.

Family

She is a child of Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer and her siblings are filmmaker David Irving and Katie Irving. She is the mother of 2 sons; Max Spielberg (born 1983) and Gabriel Barreto (born 1990).

Religion

Amy was raised in a family that practiced Christian Science but was not devoutly observant of traditions.

Worth To Know

In more than 5 films, her real-life mom plays her character’s mother or mother-in-law.

She is entirely against any surgical body enhancement of any kind.