Priscilla Pointer is an American stage, film, and television character actress, known for Blue Velvet, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and Carrie. Other film credits include Painted Desert, A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story, The Falcon and the Snowman, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Mommie Dearest, The Competition, and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

Television credits include Judge Dorothy M. Pehlman on NBC’s L.A. Law, Nurse Kathy Benson on NBC’s Quincy M.E., and Rebecca Barnes Wentworth on CBS’ Dallas.

Broadway theatre credits include her debut in Danton’s Death, Mrs. Yang in The Good Woman of Setzuan, Lady Mulligan/Marguerite Gautier in Camino Real, Mary L. in The Time of Your Life, Galileo, The East Wind, Yerma, The Alchemist, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Condemned of Altona, and My Lady Fidget in The Country Wife (Vivian Beaumont Theatre), and Eunice Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire (St. James/Vivian Beaumont Theatres).