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Jessica Capshaw Biography
Birth Name:
Jessica Capshaw
Birth Place:
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Profession
Actor
Fast Facts
- Studied acting in New York while in college and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London after college
- Was a production intern on stepfather Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic Schindler's List, and had a small role in his 2002 sci-fi thriller Minority Report
- Made her TV debut in the 1996-97 ABC police drama High Incident (Spielberg was a cocreator) and her feature-film debut in the 1997 drama The Locusts (her mother, Kate Capshaw, was a costar)
- First appeared as a regular on the 1999-2000 ABC sitcom Odd Man Out
- Was a regular on The Practice (2002-04), and played a lover of Bette (Jennifer Beals) in 2007 on The L Word
- Began a stint as pediatrician Arizona Robbins on Grey's Anatomy in 2009
Relationships
- Eve Augusta Gavigan -- Daughter
- Josephine Kate Gavigan -- Daughter
- Poppy James Gavigan -- Daughter
- Robert Capshaw -- Father
- Sawyer Spielberg -- Half Brother
- Theo Spielberg -- Half Brother
- Destry Spielberg -- Half Sister
- Mikaela Spielberg -- Half Sister
- Sasha Spielberg -- Half Sister
- Luke Gavigan -- Son
- Max Spielberg -- Stepbrother