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Born to a pair of actors,Amy Irvingstarted playing when she was just a child. After the beginnings to Broadway at 12 and going to the theater school, she took her first feature film by playing at the Bully Suene Snell high school in the 1976 adaptation ofStephen KingCarrie. Ironically, she started on a path to this escape part while hearing without success for another emblematic character.CarriedirectorBrian de Palma was seated inGeorge Lucas'Auditions for the firstStar warsFilm, and Irving met her when she read for Princess Leia, a role she lost against her friendCarrie Fisher.

"I knew the day I met [from Palma] thatI was going to doCarrie, "Irving told cult quirks in 1999." George [Lucas] was really shy. It stands out when you don't know it, like a little cold. He was doing the maintenance and I had just left the hospital from an operation. I had been lying for six weeks and I had not been in hearing for some time, so I was still a little delicate. George asked a kind of statistical questions with the buried head, and I just wanted a little human warmth. I continued to look at the corner and there was Brian. He never opened his mouth but I really felt something. When I went out, I knew I was going to doCarrie. ""

The horror film would catapulate Irving in a long and varied Hollywood career, which would bring it back, years later, to the frightening history that started everything. Read the rest to learn more about the 69 -year -old life and work today.

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Irving's love life was a burning subject in the late 1970s and in the 80s. She and the directorSteven Spielberg dated from 1976 to 1980, breaking when Irving began to go out togetherRose Honeysuckleco-starWillie Nelson. She and Spielberg were later reconciled (but not before givingKaren AllenThe role of Marion Ravenwood inThe Raiders of the Lost Arkinstead of her) and were married from 1985 to 1989. The couple welcomedtheir son Max in 1985.

"Steven is brilliant, but I don't even know this side of him," Irving told the cult quirks of their relationship. "I mean, there is this Joe Schmo in the street sitting here with me. He is this wonderful guy and he eats junk food and suddenly I see this genius. I am very impressed by him."

TheThe couple division made more titles When Irving received a regulation of $ 100 million after a judge ruled that their prenuptial agreement, written on a paper towel, was not a valid contract.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Irving and DirectorBruno Barto welcomed a son, Gabriel, in 1990 and married from 1996 to 2005. The actor is currently married to a documentary director,Kenneth Bowser Jr., and has been since 2007.

As mentioned above, Irving was briefly released with Nelson after playing and sang by his side in the Country Music 1980Rose Honeysuckle. It was the first time that IRving has been playing music on the screen, but it wouldn't be the last. She also sings in the 1987 musicalRumpelstiltskinAnd like Jessica Rabbit's voice in 1988Who wants the skin of Roger Rabbit, covering the Blues song Memorably "why don't you do well."

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Irving's passion for music is not limited to its roles. Now, at the end of the 1960s, she played and recorded with a group.

"I am very musical. I have done more music than acting lately because my son Gabriel managedA group called Goolis, and they asked if I would sing a few songs with them, and we ended up making an album together, "She said to Salon In 2021. "Ten songs of my life on which he took new arrangements. I sang with the group. It was a very cool experience - it was a bit terrifying, but also wonderful. Just before the success of Covid, we played a few bars the city center, and we were preparing to get started, but we then had to stop. "

She added: "I try to go beyond my incredible fear of the scene, what I have always had, but singing is even more frightening. I try to [play] so when it is time to launch this album, I will be able to get up and make a show. "

Irving has dozens of credits with his name through television, cinema and theater. Some of his most important post- film rolesCarrieto understandYentl(for which she was nominated for an academic actress prize for best support),I am not rapport,,Deconstruct Harry,, Traffic , and Eternal tuck . She also resumed the role of SUE in the 1999 suite, RAGE: CARRIE 2. On television, she appeared on Spin city ,, Lodge ,, Law and order: SVU ,, The good woman , and The case , as well as in several TV movies. And she played in internship productions in regional theaters across the country and on Broadway. Its most recent credits are the films 2021 Confetti and A air bite .

In his interview with the living room, Irving spoke of his process to choose jobs and challenge himself. "You never know in something how it will strike, or how it will be. I take it one day at a time," she said about her career. "Something falls on your desk and you think:" I never thought I wanted to play this. "But I never did it, so it's much more fun."