Kate Capshaw

Kate Capshaw

Born: November 3, 1953
in Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Kathleen Sue Spielberg (Born: November 3, 1953, Height: 5 ft 7 inches (1.70 m)), known professionally as Kate Capshaw, is an American actress and painter with a multifaceted career that traverses action-adventure classics, heartwarming comedies, and artistic pursuits. Born in Texas, Capshaw embarked on an unexpected path: initially, she pursued a career in education, earning a Master's degree in Learning Disabilities and teaching special education. However, her artistic heart yearned for a different stage. Driven by this passion, she moved to New York and delved into acting, landing a role in the soap opera "The Edge of Night." Fate and Hollywood intervened in 1984 when Capshaw, after beating out 120 actresses, landed the pivotal role of Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This action-adventure blockbuster, directed by Steven Spielberg, not only catapulted her to international fame but also sparked a personal connection that led to their marriage in 1991. Capshaw's career thrived in the 80s and 90s, showcasing her dramatic and comedic chops in films like Dreamscape, Black Rain, Love Affair, and Just Cause. She explored lighter roles in SpaceCamp and The Love Letter, proving her versatility. Beyond acting, Capshaw is a devoted mother to seven children, including actress Jessica Capshaw, and co-parent to adopted children with Spielberg. She has actively supported various charities, highlighting her dedication to humanitarian causes.

Movies for Kate Capshaw...

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Title: Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on another cinematic benchmark featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, James Mangold, and many others as well.
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Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Title: Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
Released: May 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as producer, the latter as director. The story of how the charismatic archaeologist Indiana Jones was born and how his first adventure, released in 1981, triumphed at box offices around the world.
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Everything Is Copy
Title: Everything Is Copy
Character: Self
Released: September 29, 2015
Type: Movie
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
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Black Rain: Making The Film
Title: Black Rain: Making The Film
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 10, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of the film, Black Rain, which actually encompasses 4 parts, Production, Filming, The Script and Cast, Post-Production
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Due East
Title: Due East
Character: Becky Purdue
Released: April 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Mary Faith Rapple, a bright high school senior, has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a night class, cares for her widowed father and pretty much keeps to herself. When a fellow loner moves to Due East, she finds herself in a relationship for the first time, leading to a small town scandal that changes her life forever.
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A Girl Thing
Title: A Girl Thing
Character: Casey Montgomery
Released: January 19, 2001
Type: Movie
A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is about sisters who hate each other, trying to get along one last time. Hour Three is about adultery.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Character: Helen
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
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The Alarmist
Title: The Alarmist
Character: Gale Ancona
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Title: Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film clips, never-before-seen photos and interviews with
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The Locusts
Title: The Locusts
Character: Mrs. Potts
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Delilah Potts has always had her choice of men to work her ranch and fill her bed. But from the moment Clay Hewitt, a handsome drifter with a mysterious past, arrives at her door, Delilah knows that her life will never be the same. And when he spurns her affections, she unleashes a torrent of forbidden passions and deadly secrets that will prove to Clay that the only thing darker and more dangerous than the past he's escaping... is the one he's about to discover.
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Duke of Groove
Title: Duke of Groove
Character: Rebecka
Released: May 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Mother takes her teenage son to a party, to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.
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How to Make an American Quilt
Title: How to Make an American Quilt
Character: Sally
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
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Just Cause
Title: Just Cause
Character: Laurie Armstrong
Released: February 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Lynn Weaver
Released: October 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.
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Next Door
Title: Next Door
Character: Karen Coler
Released: September 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Title: Black Tie Affair
Character: Margo Cody
Released: May 29, 1993
Type: TV
Black Tie Affair is an American crime drama spoof that aired from May 29 until June 19, 1993.
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Title: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Character: Jolie
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
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Love at Large
Title: Love at Large
Character: Mrs. Ellen McGraw
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
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Black Rain
Title: Black Rain
Character: Joyce
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
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Internal Affairs
Title: Internal Affairs
Character: Joanna Gates
Released: November 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Brunetta
Released: December 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
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Her Secret Life
Title: Her Secret Life
Character: Annie
Released: April 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
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The Quick and the Dead
Title: The Quick and the Dead
Character: Susanna McKaskel
Released: February 28, 1987
Type: Movie
In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.
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SpaceCamp
Title: SpaceCamp
Character: Andie
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. Together, the group -- which includes Kathryn, a pilot-in-training, and Tish, a ditz with a perfect memory -- must work together to operate the spacecraft and return home.
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Power
Title: Power
Character: Sydney Betterman
Released: January 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
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The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Title: The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Character: Self
Released: December 4, 1984
Type: Movie
A documentary following the various stages in the production of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
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Windy City
Title: Windy City
Character: Emily Reubens
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
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Dreamscape
Title: Dreamscape
Character: Jane DeVries
Released: August 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.
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Best Defense
Title: Best Defense
Character: Laura Cooper
Released: July 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Character: Willie Scott
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Title: Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Character: Elaine Rogers
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
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A Little Sex
Title: A Little Sex
Character: Katherine
Released: April 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and sex addict, cheating on Katherine during their pre-married relationship. Because Katherine is genuinely in love with him, she is willing to overlook this and believes that perhaps marriage will change things.
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Title: The Edge of Night
Character: Jinx Avery Mallory #1
Released: April 2, 1956
Type: TV
The Edge of Night was an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984. There were 7,420 episodes, with some 1,800 available for syndication.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.