Did Priscilla Pointer have kids? Family details explored as actress passes away at 100

After a long and illustrious career in the entertainment business, renowned actress Priscilla Pointer died on April 28, 2025, at the age of one hundred. Among her surviving family are the three children she raised during her long career in the arts—director David Irving, singer Amy Irving, and actress Katie Irving. Pointer married actor Robert Symonds while she juggled her profession as an actress with the duties of mother and co-founder of the San Francisco Actors' Workshop with her first husband, Jules Irving.

Actress Priscilla Pointer's family details explored as she passes away at 100

Priscilla Marie Pointer, daughter of artist Kenneth Keith Pointer and artist Augusta Leonora, was born on May 18, 1924, in the Big Apple. Starting her acting career on Broadway in productions such as Danton's Death and A Streetcar Named Desire in the late 1940s, she did not go on to film and television until the 1950s. Apart from her 44 episodes as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth on the prime-time serial Dallas, she has acted in movies such as Blue Velvet (1986) by David Lynch and Carrie (1976) by Brian De Palma.

Pointer spent years molding West Coast theater with her husband, director Jules Irving, whom she married in December 1947. The two co-founded the San Francisco Actors' Workshop in 1952.

Among the couple's three children were Amy Irving, who was Oscar-nominated and starred with her mother in Carrie and Yanks (1979), David Irving, who produced movies and theatrical productions and worked closely with his mother, and Katie Irving, who went on to sing in Carrie's prom scene.

Pointer's shared onscreen time with Amy in Carrie and Honeysuckle Rose highlighted a unique mother-daughter relationship in Hollywood, given their combined professional and personal lives.

Following Jules Irving's death in 1979, Pointer married actor Robert Symonds in January 1981. They remained together until Symonds died in 2007, sharing a passion for the theater and helping Pointer in her role as grandmother to her adult children. In interviews conducted late in her life, she spoke fondly of balancing motherhood with her artistic pursuits, crediting this achievement to the support she had from her husband, Jules Irving.

From the time she turned 100 in May 2024 until her death on April 28, 2025, Pointer lived at an assisted care facility located in Ridgefield, Connecticut. From being a creative theater actor to offering significant performances in cinema and television and supporting the artistic pursuits of her three children, Priscilla Pointer achieved much in her century-long life.

Her legacy will survive, therefore, by way of her great body of work and the creative successes of her children, Amy, David, and Katie Irving. Tributes have concentrated on her numerous roles—including those of a devoted mother who nurtured ability in her children and a professional actress—as news of her death spreads.

At the age of 100, Pointer resided at an assisted living home in Ridgefield, Connecticut, until April 28, 2025, when she died in her sleep. In the hundred years she lived, Priscilla Pointer did so much: she became a pioneering theater actress, delivered outstanding performances in film and television, and supported her three children's artistic pursuits.

Her children, Amy, David, and Katie Irving, have carried on her legacy via their artistic accomplishments and the great body of work she left behind. Since word of her death spread, tributes have been concentrating on her many responsibilities, including her profession as an actress and a loving mother who supported her children's abilities.

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