‘Carrie,’ ‘Dream Warriors’ Actress Priscilla Pointer Has Passed Away at 100
Actress Priscilla Pointer has passed away. She died in her sleep yesterday, April 28, at the age of 100 — and just three weeks shy of her 101st birthday. She’s perhaps best known for Brian De Palma‘s Carrie, in which she played the on-screen mother to her real daughter, Amy Irving. Her other horror roles […] The post ‘Carrie,’ ‘Dream Warriors’ Actress Priscilla Pointer Has Passed Away at 100 appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Actress Priscilla Pointer has passed away. She died in her sleep yesterday, April 28, at the age of 100 — and just three weeks shy of her 101st birthday.
She’s perhaps best known for Brian De Palma‘s Carrie, in which she played the on-screen mother to her real daughter, Amy Irving.
Her other horror roles include A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Blue Velvet, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud.
Outside the genre, she had notable appearances in “Dallas,” Mommie Dearest, The Falcon and the Snowman, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and “The Flash.”
Pointer also co-founded the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop in 1952.
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