Ammon News - Priscilla Pointer, the actress best known for playing formidable mothers in “Dallas” and “Carrie,” has died at age 100.

Pointer’s daughter, the Oscar-nominated actress Amy Irving, announced her death Tuesday on Instagram, writing that she had “died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 100, hopefully to run off with her 2 adoring husbands and her many dogs.”

Irving, who was married to famed director Steven Spielberg from 1985 until 1989, added: “She most definitely will be missed.”

With a screen career that spanned six decades, Pointer was a familiar face in both television and film. In “Dallas,” she portrayed the wealthy and enigmatic Rebecca Barnes Wentworth until her character’s dramatic exit in a midair plane collision during the show’s sixth season.

In the 1976 horror classic “Carrie,” Pointer played the mother of Sue Snell — a high school student portrayed by her real-life daughter Amy in her film debut. The casting became the first of several collaborations between the two. Pointer played Irving’s on-screen mother in “Honeysuckle Rose” (1980) and “Acts of Love” (1996), and they both appeared in “The Competition” (1980) and “Micki & Maude” (1984).

She also appeared in several independent projects, directed by her son, David Irving. On television, she guest-starred in a wide range of shows from “The Rockford Files” to “Judging Amy,” and had a recurring role on “L.A. Law.” CNN