Actress. Born on September 10, 1953, in Palo Alto, California. Gentle, appealing, intelligent leading lady of American stage, TV, and films. The daughter of theater director Jules Irving and actress Priscilla Pointer (and sister of director-screenwriter David Irving), she trained at San Francisco's Conservatory Theater, then at the London Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her screen debut playing a secondary role in Brian De Palma's horror classic Carrie (1976), in which her mother also appeared. Later played down-to-earth, believable leads as a piano prodigy in The Competition (1980) and a liberated Lower East Side Jewish intellectual in Crossing Delancey (1988), among other roles. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Yentl, in which she played Barbra Streisand's wife. On Broadway, she played Mozart's wife in "Amadeus" (1982) and later appeared in several other productions. Her career in the late 80's was overshadowed by her marriage in 1985 to director Steven Spielberg and her role as a mother to their son, Max. They endured an especially antagonistic divorce in 1989 and with a prenuptial agreement, awarded her with 100 million dollars. In the following year, she bore a son, Gabriel, to Bruno Barreto, the Brazilian director of her film, A Show of Force.