Born November 3, 1953, Kate Capshaw is a North-American actress. She was born Kathleen Sue Nail, and took her surname from her marriage to Robert Capshaw in 1976. She earned a degree in education from the University of Missouri and taught Special Education at the Southern Boone County High School in 1972.
To pursue her dream of acting, she moved to New York. There, she landed a role in the soap The Edge of Night in 1956. She was then featured in 1982’s A Little Sex and the TV movie Missing Children: A Mother’s Story. Her biggest role was as Willie Scott, the female lead in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This was followed by a series of appearances in 1984, in films such as Best Defense, Dreamscape and Windy City. She portrayed Sydnet Betterman in Power, two years after, and was the lead in SpaceCamp as well.
Kate Capshaw appeared in many television movies, including the Western The Quick and the Dead and Her Secret Life, both in 1987. She was also in Internal Affairs as Joanna Gates, and as Joyce in Black Rain in 1989. In the 1990s, she appeared in the drama Love at Large, which was cast as the lead female in My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. Kate can also be seen in an episode of the TV series Black Tie Affair, and the 1994 TV movie, Next Door. In 1995, she played Laurie Armstrong in Just Cause, and was also cast in How to Make an American Quilt, also starring Winona Ryder. She was also in The Locusts and Life During Wartime in 1997, and as Helen in 1999’s The Love Letter. She portrayed Casey Montgomery, the lead in the made-for-TV comedy drama A Girl Thing, with Elle MacPherson as her same-sex lover.