Although she needs no introduction, CheatSheet reports that Amy Irving is a horror movie icon. Fans of the genre best know her for her role in 1976's "Carrie," where she played Sue Snell. It was while Irving was a rising star in the horror world that she first met Spielberg. According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow director George Lucas introduced the two shortly after Irving auditioned for (and lost) the role of Princess Leia in "Star Wars."
But Irving told the Chicago Tribune that she was never an actor that had her own identity. "I'd grown up as the daughter of Jules Irving when the theater world was very big," she said. "And then I was the girlfriend of Steven Spielberg, and I was just trying very hard to find my own identity and not be so latched in. It was impossible, but I tried." She also told the Times that she felt like "a politician's wife" during her time with Spielberg.
Spielberg and Irving have a son, Max, whom they welcomed in 1985, the year they got married. However, they divorced in 1989. Reportedly, Irving left Spielberg because he had an affair with future wife Kate Capshaw. Ultimately, Spielberg and Irving settled their divorce amicably and she walked away with $100 million — so, if nothing else, it was well worth it financially!
