She was previously married to American film director Steven Spielberg and Brazilian film director Bruno Barreto.
At a young age, Amy Irving was trained at the American Conservatory Theater and Britain's London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts L.
Her brother is writer and director and her sister, Katie Irving, is a singer and teacher of deaf children.
Her father, Jules Irving, was a stage and film director while her mother, Priscilla Pointer, was an actress.