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{{short description|American actress}}

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| birth_place = Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.| alma_mater = University of Missouri

• Actress
• producer
• painter

}| years_active = 1981–2001{{marriage1976reason=divorced{edih}Steven Spielberg|1991}}}}Jessica Capshaw>Jessica, Destry Spielberg, and Sasha Spielberg>Sasha| relatives = Arnold Spielberg (father-in-law)}}Kathleen Sue Spielberg (née Nail; born November 3, 1953),BOOK, Pohlen, Jerome, Oddball Texas, February 2006, Chicago Review Press, 89, 9781569764725,books.google.com/books?id=EPJ_0i9zNS8C, known professionally as Kate Capshaw, is a retired American actress and painter. She is best known for her portrayal of Willie Scott, an American nightclub singer and performer in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), directed by her eventual husband Steven Spielberg. Since then, she starred in Dreamscape (1984), Power (1986), SpaceCamp (1986), Black Rain (1989), Love Affair (1994), Just Cause (1995), and The Love Letter (1999). Her portraiture work has been shown in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.WEB,portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2019-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/unaccompanied?lang=eng, UNACCOMPANIED, Kate Capshaw {{!, 2019 {{!}} The Outwin: American Portraiture Today {{!}} Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery}}NEWS,www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/portraits-that-bend-the-rules-of-portraiture-in-the-outwin-2019/2019/12/11/db924a86-1619-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html, Art review: At the National Portrait Gallery, the finalists in the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition redefine the idea of portraiture. - The Washington Post, The Washington Post,

Early life

Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail, the daughter of Edwin L. Nail, an airline employee.NEWS, Dickson, Gordon, Edwin Nail, Kate Capshaw’s dad, dies at 65,www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-edwin-nail/127694653/, July 5, 2023, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 30, 1998, Section B, Page 4, Newspapers.com, She moved to St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of five, and graduated from Hazelwood Senior 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 High School in Ashland, Missouri, and Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri.{{Citation needed |date=September 2022}} She married marketing manager Robert Capshaw in January 1976 and they had one child, Jessica Capshaw, before eventually divorcing in 1980.{{Citation needed |date=June 2023}} However, she kept the surname Capshaw, which she used for her professional name upon becoming an actress.

Career

(File:Kate Capshaw.jpg|right|thumb|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.Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the MythologyShe 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.Code Name Dancer (1987) at Rotten TomatoesCapshaw 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, she starred in the Showtime Cable Network TV Movie A Girl Thing,“The DVD of A Girl Thing” reviewed at Amazon with Stockard Channing, Rebecca De Mornay and Elle Macpherson.“Elle’s Sexy Lesbian Romp.” at Cinema.com She retired from acting after her final screen appearance in that 2001 TV movie.{{Citation needed |date=April 2023}} In 2009, Capshaw began her art studies—drawing, painting, and portraiture. She turned her interest to portraits of young people experiencing homelessness. In March 2019, three of these portraits were selected as finalists in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious juried triennial: the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Following their selection, the portraits debuted in the exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today.WEB, Unaccompanied: The Outwin,portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2019-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/unaccompanied/, Smithsonian, 6 November 2023, WEB, Cassaday, Daniel, Kate Capshaw’s Portraits Bring Homeless Youth Out of Dark and Into View,www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/kate-capshaw-homeless-youth-portraits-paintings-1234667547/, ArtNews, 6 November 2023, 12 May 2023, On April 28, 2023, Capshaw along with Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance on stage during Bruce Springsteen’s show in Barcelona where they provided backing vocals and tambourine on the song “Glory Days”.WEB, Blanchett, Ben, 2023-04-29, Michelle Obama Joins Bruce Springsteen Onstage During Barcelona Concert,www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/michelle-obama-joins-bruce-springsteen-onstage-during-barcelona-concert/ar-AA1avzvt, 2023-04-29, MSN.com, en-US,

Personal life

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.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1995/09/24/us/from-schindler-s-list-a-jewish-mission.html, From ‘Schindler’s List,’ a Jewish Mission, Karen W., Arenson, Karen W. Arenson, New York Times, September 24, 1995, 17 December 2018, 1001030, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-holocaust.html, The New York Times, Film: Steven Spielberg Faces the Holocaust, Bernard, Weinraub, Bernard Weinraub, 12 December 1993, 17 December 2018,www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-holocaust.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20010218130349www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-holocaust.html,">web.archive.org/web/20010218130349www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-holocaust.html, 18 February 2001, live, They were married in both a civil ceremony and an Orthodox ceremony.BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=1RsIAQAAMAAJ, Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology, Frank, Sanello, Frank Sanello, Taylor Publishing Co., 1996, 274, 9780878339112, There are seven children in the Spielberg–Capshaw family.

• Jessica Brooke 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 himWEB,www.funtrivia.com/en/Celebrities/Spielberg-Steven-14300.html, Spielberg, Steven – Fun Facts, Answers, Factoids, Info, Information, Funtrivia.com, March 2, 2010,www.funtrivia.com/en/Celebrities/Spielberg-Steven-14300.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20100309223135www.funtrivia.com/en/Celebrities/Spielberg-Steven-14300.html,">web.archive.org/web/20100309223135www.funtrivia.com/en/Celebrities/Spielberg-Steven-14300.html, 9 March 2010, dead,
• Sasha Rebecca Spielberg
• Sawyer Avery Spielberg
• Mikaela George Spielberg – adopted with Steven SpielbergNEWS, Greissinger, Lisa Kay,www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103281,00.html, Passages, 15 April 1996, People.com, 26 April 2013,www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103281,00.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20160304071940www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103281,00.html,">web.archive.org/web/20160304071940www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103281,00.html, 4 March 2016, Time Inc.,
• Destry Allyn SpielbergNEWS,www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/us/steven-spielberg-fast-facts, Steven Spielberg Fast Facts, 11 April 2013, Cable News Network, 26 April 2013, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.,

Filmography

Film{| class“wikitable”

! Year! Title! Role! Note| 1982| A Little Sex| Katherine Harrison| | 1984| Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomList of Indiana Jones characters#Introduced in Temple of Doom>Willie Scott| | 1984| Best Defense| Laura Cooper| | 1984Dreamscape (1984 film)>Dreamscape| Jane DeVries| | 1984Windy City (film)>Windy City| Emily Reubens| | 1986Power (1986 film)>Power| Sydney Betterman| | 1986| SpaceCamp| Andie Bergstrom| | 1987The Quick and the Dead (1987 film)>The Quick and the Dead| Susanna McKaskel|| 1988Private Affairs (1987 film)>Private Affairs| Brunetta| | 1989Black Rain (1989 American film)>Black Rain| Joyce| | 1990| Love at Large| Mrs. Ellen McGraw| | 1991My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (film)>My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys| Jolie Meadows| | 1994Love Affair (1994 film)>Love Affair| Lynn Weaver| | 1995Just Cause (film)>Just Cause| Laurie Prentiss Armstrong| | 1995| How to Make an American Quilt| Sally Dodd| | 1997The Locusts (film)>The Locusts| Delilah Ashford Potts| | 1997| The Alarmist| Gale Ancona| | 1999The Love Letter (1999 film)>The Love Letter| Helen MacFarquhar| Also producer“>

Television{| class“wikitable sortable”

! 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| 1987The Quick and the Dead (1987 film)>The Quick and the Dead| Susanna McKaskel| TV film| 1987| Her Secret Life| Annie| TV film| 1988| Internal Affairs| Joanna Gates| TV film| 1993Black Tie Affair (TV series)>Black Tie Affair| Margo Cody| TV series; 13 episodes| 1994Next Door (1994 film)>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

References

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