Amy Irvingconfirmed the newsin a heartfelt Instagram post and said her mother “most definitely will be missed.”
Pointer appeared in some of the most acclaimed films of the past century, includingBrian De Palma’sCarrieandDavid Lynch’sBlue Velvet.
The couple had three children: Amy, David, and Katie.
Amy Irving and Priscilla Pointer in Los Angeles in 1989.Credit:Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Pointer and Symonds remained together until his death from prostate cancer in 2007.
She made her theatrical film debut alongside daughter Amy in the 1976 adaptation ofStephen King’sCarrie.
Amy playedSissy Spacek’s sympathetic classmate Sue Snell, and Pointer played her mother, Eleanor.
Priscilla Pointer in ‘Carrie’.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
I thought that was just brilliant."
