Amy Irving

 Amy Davis Irving (born September 10 1953) is an American actress and singer, who has worked in stage, film as well as television. She has won many awards, which include an Obie Award and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Irving was born in Palo Alto to Jules Irving (actors) and Priscilla Pinter (singer). Her family relocated to New York City when she was a teenager. At the age of 13, she made her Broadway debut in The Country Wife (1965-1966). Irving later studied theater in San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) and was then she was cast as the lead in the supernatural thriller The Fury (1978).In 1980, Irving was in an Broadway production of Amadeus and the film Honeysuckle Rose (1980), winning an award of the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress. She was cast as a lead actress in Barbra Streisand's musical epic Yentl (1983) which for which she was nominated for both an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an award for the Razzie Award for the worst Supporting Actress. She was awarded an Obie Award in 1988 for her Off-Broadway production of The Road to Mecca. Additionally she was nominated for an Golden Globe Award in 1988 for her performance in Crossing Delancey (1988). She was a part of Deconstructing Harry (1997).