Actress Priscilla Pointer, best known for her roles in the 1980s soap opera "Dallas" and horror film classic "Carrie," has died. She was 100. Pointer, whose children included fellow actress Amy Irving and director David Irving,

Priscilla Pointer, a stage actor perhaps best known for roles in the movie "Carrie" and TV's "Dallas," died Monday, her family confirmed. The mother of Oscar-nominated actor Amy Irving, Pointer was 100 years old.

Priscilla Pointer, a theater, TV and film actress who often played memorable mothers, notably to her daughter Amy Irving in 'Carrie,' is dead.