

The two were married in both a civil ceremony and an Orthodox ceremony. Originally an Episcopalian, she converted to Judaism before marrying Spielberg on October 12, 1991. Personal life ĭuring the production of the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Capshaw became close to director Steven Spielberg, whom she later married. 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". Her first solo exhibition ‘Unaccompanied’ is currently on view at The Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University through May 12, 2023. Ĭapshaw’s portraits venture to shift the viewer’s two-dimensional gaze to a more intimate experience-witnessing a life worthy of value.

The national tour opened on October 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Following their selection, the portraits debuted in the exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. In March 2019, three paintings from the work that began in Los Angeles were selected as finalists in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious juried triennial: the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. In 2016, she saw a way to use portraiture to bring public awareness to youth homelessness and other issues. In 2009, Capshaw began her art studies-drawing, painting, and portraiture.
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She retired from acting after her final screen appearance in the 2001 TV movie.
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In 2001, she starred in the Showtime Cable Network TV Movie A Girl Thing, with Stockard Channing, Rebecca De Mornay and Elle Macpherson. In 1999, she starred in and produced The Love Letter. She was also featured in the 1997 film The Alarmist with David Arquette and Stanley Tucci. 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). Ĭapshaw had roles in several films throughout the late 1980s into the 1990s. Capshaw also starred in the spy film/romance Her Secret Life. 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 starred opposite Harrison Ford, who played Indiana Jones. 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). She starred in Dreamscape in 1984, and afterwards was directed by her then-boyfriend Armyan Bernstein in Windy City. 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. Career Ĭapshaw moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting, landing her first role on the soap opera The Edge of Night.
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However, she kept the surname Capshaw, which she used for her professional name upon becoming an actress. She married marketing manager Robert Capshaw in January 1976 and they had one child, Jessica Capshaw, before eventually divorcing in 1980. She taught Special Education at Southern Boone High School in Ashland, Missouri, and Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. Capshaw earned a degree in education from the University of Missouri, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. Louis, Missouri, at the age of five, and graduated from Hazelwood Senior High School in 1972. Early life Ĭapshaw 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. Her portraiture work has been shown in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. 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. Kathleen Sue Spielberg ( née Nail born November 3, 1953), known professionally as Kate Capshaw, is a retired American actress and painter. 6, including Jessica Capshaw and Sasha Spielberg
