Kate Capshaw

Her portraiture work, including The Picture Maker, has been shown in the National Portrait Gallery and the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

• Name — Kate Capshaw • Birth Name — Kathleen Sue Nail • Born — 3 November 1953 • Birthplace — Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. • Education — University of Missouri • Occupation — * Actress • producer • painter • Years Active — 1981–2001 • Children — 6, including Jessica, Sasha, Sawyer, and Destry • Relatives — Arnold Spielberg (father-in-law) Christopher Gavigan (son-in-law)

Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail, the daughter of airline employee Edwin L. Nail (1933–1998) who was of Irish descent, and Beverly (née Simon; 1933–2013). She married marketing manager Robert Capshaw in January 1976 and they had one child, Jessica Capshaw, before divorcing in 1980. She kept the surname Capshaw, which she used for her professional name upon becoming an actress.

• Illustration — Capshaw in June 1984 Capshaw moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting, landing her first role on the soap opera The Edge of Night. After auditioning for a small role in A Little Sex, she was offered the role of the leading lady, which is when she asked for a dismissal from The Edge of Night. She starred in Dreamscape in 1984, and afterwards was directed by her then-boyfriend Armyan Bernstein in Windy City. Capshaw met film director and future husband Steven Spielberg upon winning the female lead as Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), a prequel to Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Capshaw starred opposite Harrison Ford, who played Indiana Jones. In addition, she appeared as Andie Bergstrom, an appealing and stern yet frustrated camp instructor in the 1986 film SpaceCamp, opposite Richard Gere and Gene Hackman in Power (1986), and starred as Susanna McKaskel in The Quick and The Dead (1987) with Sam Elliott. Capshaw also starred in the spy film/romance Her Secret Life. Capshaw had roles in several films throughout the late 1980s into the 1990s. She starred alongside Michael Douglas and Andy García in Black Rain (1989), Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in Just Cause (1995), and Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in Love Affair (1994). She was also featured in the 1997 film The Alarmist with David Arquette and Stanley Tucci. In 1999, she starred in and produced The Love Letter. In 2001, Capshaw starred in the television film A Girl Thing with Stockard Channing, Rebecca De Mornay and Elle Macpherson. It is her last acting role to date.

During the production of the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Capshaw became close to director Steven Spielberg, whom she later married. Originally an Episcopalian, she converted to Judaism before marrying Spielberg on October 12, 1991. They were married in both a civil ceremony and an Orthodox ceremony. There are seven children in the Spielberg–Capshaw family. • Jessica Capshaw – daughter from Capshaw's previous marriage to Robert Capshaw • Max Samuel Spielberg – son from Spielberg's previous marriage to actress Amy Irving • Theo Spielberg – son adopted by Capshaw before her marriage to Spielberg, who later also adopted him • Sasha Spielberg • Sawyer Spielberg • Mikaela George Spielberg – adopted with Steven Spielberg • Destry Spielberg

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1981 — The Edge of Night — Jinx Avery Mallory #1 — TV series • 1982 — Missing Children: A Mother's Story — Elaine Rogers — TV film • 1987 — The Quick and the Dead — Susanna McKaskel — TV film • 1987 — Her Secret Life — Annie — TV film • 1988 — Internal Affairs — Joanna Gates — TV film • 1993 — Black Tie Affair — Margo Cody — TV series; 13 episodes • 1994 — Next Door — Karen Coler — TV film • 1996 — Duke of Groove — Rebecka — Short film • 2001 — A Girl Thing — Casey Montgomery — TV film • 2001 — Due East — Becky Purdue — TV film

Kate Capshaw was recorded at birth as Kathleen Sue Nail. The authorities additionally record the heading Kathleen Sue Spielberg. Her recorded language was English. She married Steven Spielberg. 4 children are recorded: Sasha Spielberg, Jessica Capshaw, Sawyer Spielberg and Theo Spielberg. Other recorded relations include Max Spielberg.