US actress Priscilla Pointer, ‘Dallas’ and ‘Carrie’ star dead at 100
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
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
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
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US actress Priscilla Pointer, ‘Dallas’ and ‘Carrie’ star dead at 100
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