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Kate Capshaw
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Before she was Mrs. Steven Spielberg, she was Kathleen Sue Nail, a native Texan born in 1953 who grew up Missouri, married her college sweetheart, and taught special education before succumbing to the acting bug. Moving to New York with her husband and young daughter Jessica (who is also an actress), Kate landed a modeling contract with the famed Ford agency.
Like so many future stars, she got her first real acting break on the soaps, including a role as the unfortunate Jinx Avery on "The Edge of Night" (where she died of an undisclosed terminal illness.) Unfortunately, her marriage failed just as her career was beginning to take off. She made her film debut in A Little Sex (1982) and two years later beat out over 100 contenders for the coveted role of the gold-digging entertainer Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Critics were less than enthusiastic about her performance, but Capshaw used the ensuing years to hone her talents, working in both film and television in work including "Her Secret Life," "Missing Children: A Mother's Story", Dreamscape, Space Camp, Black Rain, Love at Large, and My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. She married Spielberg in 1991 and has spent the majority of the ensuing years concentrating on a growing family that now includes six children (two are adopted). Capshaw never completely gave up acting, but has taken a selective approach to her projects, appearing in the short-lived 1993 series "Black Tie Affair," and films including Love Affair (1994) How to Make an American Quilt (1995), and The Locust (1997). In 1999 she produced and starred in the romantic comedy The Love Letter and has recently begun taking on more projects, including the 2001 cable mini-series It's a Girl Thing. It is rumored that Capshaw will have a cameo appearance in the long-awaited final chapter of the Indiana Jones saga. |
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