“Dallas” star Priscilla Pointer: Grief for the US actress

Priscilla Pointer (1924-2025) is dead. The actress, who appeared with her daughter Amy Irving (71) in the horror classic “Carrie – the Satan’s youngest daughter” by Brian de Palma (84), died at the age of 100.

Pointer died on Monday in a facility for assisted living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, such as her son, the author and director David Irving (75), Amy Irving also confirmed the news in. She wrote that her mother “will be missing”. Irving’s son Gabriel Barreto (34) by shared and adding photos of her over the years: “She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, great -grandmother and a real gift for acting.”

In addition to the film “Carrie” from 1976, Pointer, who played on Broadway from the 1960s, was also known for her role alongside Diane Keaton (79) in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (1977). With Sean Penn (64) she was seen in “Der Falk and the Snowman” (1985), and next to Kyle Maclachlan (66) in “Blue Velvet” (1986). In the early 1980s she was on TV in the cult series “Dallas”. She played the recurring role of Rebecca Wentworth, the mother of the main character Pam Ewing depicted by Victoria Principal (75).

Pointer initially started her career at the theater. She was a co-founder of the “Actor’s Workshop” in San Francisco, together with Jules Irving (1925-1979), which pointer later married. The couple moved to New York together to work there. The two got three children: Amy, David and Katie. After Jules Irving died of a heart attack in 1979, Pointer Robert Symonds (1926-2007), who had been Irving’s production partner, married. Pointers and Symonds remained together until his death in 2007.