Kate Capshaw's Trivia: Though she'd always harbored a hankering to become an actress, she put these plans in mothballs to earn a master's degree in special education at the University of Missouri. She taught exceptional-ed classes for two years before finally heading to New York to seek out acting jobs.
Kate Capshaw's Quotation: I'd be a little worried they wouldn't understand - it's not the two women kissing that would worry me, it would be the mummy naked part."
University of Missouri (majored in History and Special Education; graduated; B.A.)
Studied French at the French Institute in the south of France
Husband/Wife:
Steven Spielberg (director; married on October 12, 1991), Robert Capshaw (marketing director; divorced)
Relationship:
Armyan Bernstein (director)
Son:
Sawyer Spielberg (born on March 10, 1992), Theo Spielberg (born in 1988; African-American; adopted)
Daughter:
Destry Allyn Spielberg (born on December 1, 1996), Mikeala George Spielberg (born on February 28, 1996; adopted), Sasha Spielberg (born in June 1990), Jessica Capshaw (actress; born in 1976; father: Robert Capshaw)
Step son:
Max Spielberg (born in June 1985; mother: Amy Irving)
Claim to fame:
As Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Though she'd always harbored a hankering to become an actress, she put these plans in mothballs to earn a master's degree in special education at the University of Missouri. She taught exceptional-ed classes for two years before finally heading to New York to seek out acting jobs.
In BEST DEFENSE (1984), when Kate Capshaw is waiting in a pick-up truck, she is humming the theme song from INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984), a movie (also released in 1984) that she appeared in.
Sharon Stone was one of the top choices for the role of Willie Scott in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) before Kate Capshaw auditioned.
To meet audience demands for an universal undesirable equivalent of snakes, Speilberg came up with the bugs. Indy does not fear them, but the character that does is Kate Capshaw's in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM.
When she auditioned for the part of Willie Scott, Capshaw thought she wouldn't get the part. Speilberg felt that her actions fit the fish out of water type that was to be Willie Scott. She is a natural brunette and had to dye her hair blonde for the part. Speilberg married Capshaw after falling in love with her while making the movie.
She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority in college
Waitress at COCO's restaurant in St. Louis in high school years.
Her father worked in the control tower of the Lambert Airport, St. Louis.
Her dad owned a 1965 green Mustang.
Worked for two years as a teacher of learning disabled children before moving to New York City and studying acting, singing, and voice
Former Ford model.
Converted to Judaism when she married Spielberg
There is a signed picture of Steven Spielberg (her husband) inside her sorority house at the University of Missouri signed: Everyone knows the Best Women come from Missouri, Steven Spielberg.
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