Here's everything you need to know about Steven Spielberg's current wife, Kate Capshaw, whom he reportedly met after his divorce from ex-wife, Amy Irving.
Steven Spielberg is on cloud nine after winning his first Grammy Award and making history. This is because he has become the 22nd artist in the history to become an Egot winner. Steven has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. Well, Steven, aged 79, won the Grammy as a producer on Music By John Williams. The documentary won the Best Music Film category at the 68th Grammy Awards, which took place in Downtown Los Angeles.
For the unversed, Music by John Williams has been directed by Laurent Bouzereau, and Spielberg revealed that the Grammy meant the world to him. The acknowledgement is meaningful to him, and he has been proud to be associated with the movie. However, do you know that Steven Spielberg is happily married to the love of his life, actress and painter, Kate Capshaw? At one end, Spielberg has created classics such as- Jaws, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park along with the Indiana Jones series. Amid his long and prolific directing career, let us take a look at his long romantic life with Capshaw.
According to a report by the Parade, Steven and Kate had met when Harrison Ford's classic titled, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was being made. However, during that time, they did not gel until later years, when he divorced actress, Amy Irving. The report mentioned that Steven had met Kate back in 1983 during the auditions for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. After Kate gave her screen test, the director of Indiana Jones gave Kate the role of 'Willie Scott'. Both of them were friends on the sets of the movie and remained in touch even after the movie was released in 1984.
Steven and Kate started seeing one another after he divorced Amy and things between them had soon progressed. By the end of 1989, a report by the People mentioned that both of them moved in together and were blessed with their first child back in 1990. The pair got married in 1991, and the rest is history. The report also mentioned that after Capshaw was selected for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the next year, Steven married Amy. However, in 1989, when he divorced her, Steven moved in with Capshaw, and reportedly she had converted to Judaism for Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg's wife, Kate Capshaw, has had a long career. She had taught Missouri kids with learning disabilities and had started off as a special education teacher. However, after Kate divorced her first husband, she moved to New York City where she pursued an acting career. In an earlier interview with Entertainment Tonight, Kate had mentioned that she had not found her career very stimulating. She had embarked on a modelling career when she shifted to New York with her ex-husband, Robert. After Robert and Kate split, she had resorted to acting and made her debut in the TV series titled, The Edge of Night. Kate was then seen in movies such as Black Rain and Just Cause, and in 2022 she produced and provided art direction for Cannibal. It was directed by Marcus Mumford Spielberg.
Kate is also an artist whose paintings feature in exhibitions. Kate was also seen in SpaceCamp next to Kelly Preston and Joaquin Phoenix. Kate was also seen with Richard Gere and Gene Hackman in Power, and was also seen in The Quick and the Dead with Sam Elliott. Kate's work was also seen in Just Cause opposite Laurence Fishburne, and in 2001 was seen in A Girl Thing. Kate has also exhibited her work at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery located in Columbus State University, Georgia, back in 2023. She has also displayed her work in 2024 at the Perez Art Museum in Miami.
A report by Parade mentioned that Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, have seven kids. Some of them have been adopted, while some are the biological kids of the couple, and some kids are from their earlier relationships. For the unversed, Jessica Capshaw is the biological daughter of Kate from her marriage to her ex-husband, Robert Capshaw. On the other hand, Kate's stepson is Max Spielberg, who was born to Steven and his ex-wife, Amy. Going further, the report mentioned that Theo Spielberg is Kate's adopted son, who entered her life way before her marriage to Steven, who later reportedly also adopted Max. The second adopted child of Kate and Steven is Mikaela George Spielberg while the bilogical kids of the couple are- Sasha Spielberg, Sawyer Spielberg and Destry Spielberg.
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