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| This girlishly beautiful actress, with captivating blue eyes, launched a starring career in the late 1970s that never quite came to fruition. If anything, she's fared better on Broadway in a number of well-received performances, though she's impressed moviegoers with her work in such films as Carrie (1976, as a semi-sympathetic coed), The Fury (1978), Voices (1979, as a deaf woman), The Competition (1980, as a concert pianist), Honeysuckle Rose (also 1980), and Micki + Maude (1984). She was Oscar-nominated for her supporting role in Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983), but got her best opportunities some years later in Crossing Delancey (1988, as a slightly eccentric New York bookseller) and A Show of Force (1990, as a TV reporter investigating political corruption in Puerto Rico). Two of her most vivid performances were unseen by audiences: as the singing voice of sexy Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and as a not dissimilar character in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991). Irving's parents are actress Priscilla Pointer and acting teacher Jules Irving. She worked with her mother in 1987's Rumpelstiltskin which was directed by her brother David Irving. She was married for several years to director Steven Spielberg. |
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