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Kathleen Sue Spielberg (née Nail; born November 3, 1953),[1] known professionally as Kate Capshaw, is an American retired actress. 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 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.[2][3]

Kate Capshaw
Capshaw in January 1984
Born	Kathleen Sue Nail (1953-11-03) November 3, 1953 (age 69) Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Missouri
Occupation	Actress producer painter
Years active	1981–2001
Spouses	Robert Capshaw ​ ​ (m. 1976; div. 1980)​ Steven Spielberg ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	7; including Jessica Capshaw and Sasha Spielberg

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.[4] 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]}

She married marketing manager Robert Capshaw in January 1976 and they had one child, Jessica Capshaw, before eventually divorcing in 1980. However, she kept the surname Capshaw, which she used for her professional name upon becoming an actress.^{[citation needed]}

Career

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.[5]

She 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.[6]

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, she starred in the Showtime Cable Network TV Movie A Girl Thing,[7] with Stockard Channing, Rebecca De Mornay and Elle Macpherson.[8] She retired from acting after her final screen appearance in the 2001 TV movie, Due East.

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.[9][10] The two were married in both a civil ceremony and an Orthodox ceremony.[11]

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[12]
• Sasha Rebecca Spielberg[13]
• Sawyer Avery Spielberg[14]
• Mikaela George – adopted with Steven Spielberg[15]
• Destry Allyn Spielberg[16]

Capshaw endorsed Democratic U.S. President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.[17]

Filmography

Film

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

Television

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 movie
1987	The Quick and the Dead	Susanna McKaskel	TV movie
1987	Her Secret Life	Annie	TV movie
1988	Internal Affairs	Joanna Gates	TV movie
1993	Black Tie Affair	Margo Cody	TV series; 13 episodes
1994	Next Door	Karen Coler	TV movie
1996	Duke of Groove	Rebecka	Short film
2001	A Girl Thing	Casey Montgomery	TV movie
2001	Due East	Becky Purdue	TV movie

References

External links

• Kate Capshaw at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Kate Capshaw

Kate Capshaw (* 3. November 1953 in Fort Worth, Texas als Kathleen Sue Nail) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Kate Capshaw

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[es] Kate Capshaw

Kathleen Sue Nail, más conocida como Kate Capshaw (Fort Worth, Texas, 3 de noviembre de 1953), es una actriz estadounidense.

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[ru] Кэпшоу, Кейт

Кейт Кэпшоу (англ. Kate Capshaw, р. 3 ноября 1953), урождённая Кэтлин Сью Нейл — американская актриса. Известна благодаря участию в приключенческом блокбастере «Индиана Джонс и храм судьбы» (1984) и браку с режиссёром Стивеном Спилбергом.

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