‘Dallas’ actress Priscilla Pointer dead at 100

Irving, 71, broke the news in a moving tribute on Instagram.

In addition to a carousel of photos from her mother, she shared: “Priscilla Pointer, much -praised play television and film actress, and mother of David, Katie and Amy Irving, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 100, hopefully running away with her 2 admiring men and her many dogs.

“She will absolutely be missed.”

Pointer died on Monday in an assisted residential facility in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

The star proved that art imitates life when she played Irving’s mother on the screen in Carrie. The mother-daughter duo would continue and appear together in six other films.

Pointer was born in New York on May 18, 1924. By the 1940s she was already an accomplished stage actress.

She left for her three children David, 75, Katie, 74 and Amy, 71, who she had with her first husband, filmmaker Jules Irving, who also served as artistic director of Lincoln Center.

The accomplished actress made a career by playing a ‘mother’, including portraying the mother of Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Good bar (1977), Sean Penn’s in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Kyle Maclachlan’s in Blue velvet (1986).

On television she was Rebecca Barnes Wentworth on the wife of an oilgagnaat of Dallas who turns out to be the long -lost mother of Cliff (Ken Kercheval) and Pam (Victoria Principal) Barnes.

Unfortunately, her time in Texas ended during the sixth season of the show in 1983, when her character was killed after the Wentworth family crashed into the air in another plane.

Beyond Motherhood appeared Pointer in films on a large scale, including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Twilight Zone: The Movie And Chud II: Bud de Chud.

Television -credits include stints Eh, judgments of Amy, St. elsewhere everywhere And The Rockford files.

Fans shared their sympathy on Irving’s Instagram message.

One person posted: “So sad to hear. She will be remembered and missed – and lives on in all the films she adorned with her beautiful talents.”

Another added: “I will send you all my love and support. Your mother will always be unique. May they rest in peace.”

Like a third echoed: “What a life, what a career, what contributions she has made. May her memory are a blessing.”

Irving met Spielberg for the first time when she did an audition for his hit movie Close meetings of the third kind.

Although she was too young for the part, she still caught the eye of the director – and the couple began to date, with Irving eventually moving to Spielberg’s house.

Although their marriage lasted only four years, Irving continued to live close to Spielberg, so that they could collect their son Max together under their shared custody agreement.

She also received $ 100 million in their divorce, after a judge had left their marital conditions because it was scribbled on a napkin without an attentive lawyer.

“I don’t know how long I was married (Spielberg). But we were together for 14 years – with three years free for good behavior,” she once remembered. “I ran away for a while and then we came together again.”