Editing Kate Capshaw (section)

==Career==
[[File:Kate Capshaw.jpg|right|thumb|Capshaw in June 1984]]
Capshaw moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting, landing her first role on the soap opera ''[[The Edge of Night]]''. 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''. She starred in ''[[Dreamscape (1984 film)|Dreamscape]]'' in 1984, and afterwards was directed by her then-boyfriend [[Armyan Bernstein]] in ''[[Windy City (film)|Windy City]]''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TFpvAH09IT8C&pg=PA142 ''Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology'']</ref>

She met film director and future husband [[Steven Spielberg]] upon winning the female lead as [[Willie Scott (Indiana Jones character)|Willie Scott]] in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'' (1984), a prequel to Spielberg's ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (1981). Capshaw starred opposite [[Harrison Ford]], who played [[Indiana Jones (character)|Indiana Jones]]. 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 film)|Power]]'' (1986), and starred as Susanna McKaskel in ''[[The Quick and the Dead (1987 film)|The Quick and The Dead]]'' (1987) with [[Sam Elliott]]. Capshaw also starred in the spy film/romance ''Her Secret Life''.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/code_name_dancer/ Code Name Dancer (1987)] at Rotten Tomatoes</ref>

Capshaw had roles in several films throughout the late 1980s into the 1990s. She starred alongside [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Andy García]] in ''[[Black Rain (American film)|Black Rain]]'' (1989), [[Sean Connery]] and [[Laurence Fishburne]] in ''[[Just Cause (film)|Just Cause]]'' (1995), and [[Warren Beatty]] and [[Annette Bening]] in ''[[Love Affair (1994 film)|Love Affair]]'' (1994). She was also featured in the 1997 film ''[[The Alarmist]]'' with [[David Arquette]] and [[Stanley Tucci]]. In 1999, she starred in and produced ''[[The Love Letter (1999 film)|The Love Letter]].''

In 2001, she starred in the made-for-cable film ''[[A Girl Thing]]'',<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Thing-Kate-Capshaw/dp/B00005NRNS/ "The DVD of A Girl Thing"] reviewed at Amazon</ref> with [[Stockard Channing]], [[Rebecca De Mornay]] and [[Elle Macpherson]].<ref>[http://www.cinema.com/news/item/318/elles-sexy-lesbian-romp.phtml "Elle's Sexy Lesbian Romp."] at Cinema.com</ref> It is her last acting role to date.