Kate Capshaw

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Kate Capshaw

Kate Capshaw, June 1984
Born Kathleen Sue Nail
November 3, 1953 (1953-11-03) (age 54)
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Spouse(s) Robert Capshaw (1976 - 1980; divorced) 1 child
Steven Spielberg (1991 - present) 6 children

Kate Capshaw (born November 3, 1953) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Willie Scott in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and for her marriage to director Steven Spielberg.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, the daughter of Beverley Sue (née Simon), a travel agent and beautician, and Edwin Leon Nail, an airline employee.[1][2] She moved to St. Louis, Missouri at the age of five, and graduated from Hazelwood Senior High, now called Hazelwood Central High School in 1972. Capshaw earned a degree in education from the University of Missouri, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. She taught Special Education at Southern Boone County High School in Ashland, Missouri and Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. She took the surname Capshaw upon her marriage to Robert Capshaw in January 1976; they had one child, actress Jessica Capshaw, and eventually divorced in 1980.

[edit] Career

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Capshaw moved to New York to pursue her dream of acting, landing her first role on the soap opera Love of Life. She met film director Steven Spielberg upon winning the female lead (from a pool of 120 actresses) for the Raiders of the Lost Ark prequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. She appeared in the Showtime Cable Network miniseries A Girl Thing with Elle Macpherson as her same-sex lover.

[edit] Personal life

Capshaw, originally an Episcopalian, converted to Judaism[3][4] before marrying director Steven Spielberg on October 12, 1991.

There are seven children in the Spielberg-Capshaw family:

  • Jessica Capshaw (1976) (daughter from Kate Capshaw's previous marriage to Robert Capshaw)
  • Max Samuel Spielberg (June 13, 1985) (son from Steven Spielberg's previous marriage to actress Amy Irving)
  • Theo (born 1988 - African-American; adopted by Capshaw before her marriage to Spielberg; adopted by Spielberg)
  • Sasha (May 14, 1990)[5]
  • Sawyer (March 10, 1992)
  • Mikaela George (born February 28, 1996; adopted with Spielberg)
  • Destry Allyn (December 1, 1996)

[edit] In popular culture

Capshaw is parodied in the Family Guy film Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, for her character in an Indiana Jones film.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Kate-Capshaw.html
  2. ^ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB042F9C6257C57&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
  3. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1DB163FF937A1575AC0A963958260
  4. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-holocaust.html
  5. ^ Capshaw biography from Internet Movie Database

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