Irving made her Broadway debut in Amadeus in 1980, and went on to receive an Obie Award for the 1988 Off-Broadway production of The Road to Mecca. Her other Broadway credits include the original production of Broken Glass (1994), the revival of Three Sisters (1997), and in the original Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia (2006). She also starred in the 2010 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis production of the musical A Little Night Music.\n', '

Irving was born on September 10, 1953 in Palo Alto, California. Her father was film and stage director Jules Irving (born Jules Israel) and her mother is actress Priscilla Pointer. Her brother is writer and director David Irving (not the British author of the same name) and her sister, Katie Irving, is a singer and teacher of deaf children. Irving\'s father was born Jewish, as was one of Irving\'s maternal great-great-grandfathers. Irving was raised in Christian Science, and her family observed no religious traditions.\n', '

She spent her early life in San Francisco, California, where her father co-founded the Actor\'s Workshop, and where she was active in local theater as a child. She attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and appeared in several productions there. She also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and made her Off-Broadway debut at age 17 in And Chocolate on Her Chin. She graduated from Professional Children\'s School in New York City while performing in theater there.\n', '

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