Kate CapshawFilmography

Born:: November 3, 1953 in Fort Worth, TX
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Kathleen Sue Nail
Biography:: Though she'd always harbored a hankering to become an actress, Kate Capshaw put these plans in mothballs to earn a master's degree in special education at the University of Missouri. She taught exceptional-ed classes for two years before finally heading to New York to seek out acting jobs. Capshaw...Read More

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Due East

Actors: Clara Bryant, Kate Capshaw, Cybill Shepherd, Robert Forster

Synopsis: The topic of teen pregnancy is covered in this made-for-Showtime melodrama directed by actress Helen Shaver. Clara Bryant stars as Mary Faith, a small-town good girl, and the last person that anyone in her community would expect to find herself with child. When news of the pregnancy gets out, Mary Read More

2002
A Girl Thing

Actors: Stockard Channing, Elle MacPherson, Kate Capshaw

Synopsis: Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (Elle MacPherson), a respected lawyer, finds her sexual identity thrown into question Read More

2001
The Love Letter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Capshaw, Blythe Danner, Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Ellen DeGeneres, Geraldine McEwan, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: Helen (Kate Capshaw) runs a bookstore in Loblolly By The Sea, a small fishing community in New England where everyone seems to know everyone else's business. A 42-year-old single mother, she is emotionally distant and fearful of getting too close to anyone. George (Tom Selleck) has known Helen Read More

5/21/99
The Alarmist

Actors: David Arquette, Stanley Tucci, Kate Capshaw, Mary McCormack, Ryan Reynolds

Synopsis: This comedy pivoting around a Los Angeles home-security business was adapted by director Evan Dunsky from a play by Keith Reddin. Heinrich Grigoris (Stanley Tucci) welcomes new employee Tommy Hudler (David Arquette) to Grigoris Security. During his first day on the job, Tommy sells a system and Read More

10/23/98
The Locusts

Actors: Kate Capshaw, Jeremy Davies, Vince Vaughn, Ashley Judd, Paul Rudd

Synopsis: A young drifter unexpectedly wanders into a maelstrom of bizarre sex and shameful secrets in this drama. With a mere seven dollars to his name, Clay Hewitt (Vince Vaughn) happens upon a ranch run by Delilah Potts (Kate Capshaw), a hard-as-nails widow who inherited a cattle empire from her late Read More

1997
Just Cause

Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris

Synopsis: The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It Read More

1995
How to Make an American Quilt

Actors: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney Read More

1995
Duke Of Groove

1995
Next Door

Synopsis: This black comedy about "keeping up with the Joneses" pits a sophisticated college professor and his schoolteacher wife against their next-door neighbors, a loutish beer-drinking butcher, his wife and their son. As each family's pranks against the other escalate, they also start to get crueler and Read More

1994
Love Affair

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: The 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer romance Love Affair, remade with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, became a vehicle for real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in this 1994 rendition. The well-worn story remains the same, as a man and a woman, both engaged Read More

1994
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Scott Glenn is H.D., 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 Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) Read More

3/1/91
Love at Large

Actors: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Ted Levine, Annette O'Toole

Synopsis: Director Alan Rudolph's 1989 model mood piece stars Tom Berenger as shabby private eye Harry Dobbs, who is hired by the mysterious Miss Dolan (Anne Archer). Dolan wants Dobbs to tail her abusive boyfriend, Rick (Neil Young). Dobbs immediately demonstrates his uncanny powers of detection by Read More

3/9/90
The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

1990
Black Rain

Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis: Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back Read More

9/22/89
Internal Affairs

Actors: Lee Richardson, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Internal Affairs is the second TV-movie based on the works of detective novelist William Bayer. Richard Crenna, who first played NYPD detective Richard Janek in 1985's Doubletake, is back, now as a functionary of Internal Affairs. He has been assigned to solve the murder of a woman who may have Read More

1988
Private Affairs

Actors: Kate Capshaw, David Naughton

Synopsis: In this Italian romantic drama the beautiful mistress of an internationally recognized surgeon becomes insanely jealous when he suddenly takes up with a young swimming teacher. Soon she begins engineering elaborate plots to get him back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Ti Presento Un'amica

Actors: Giuliana de Sio, Michele Placido, Kate Capshaw, David Naughton, Luca Barbareschi

Synopsis: A group of characters come in and out of each other's lives in this Italian sex comedy. Nagra (Giuliana De Sio) is an ambitious journalist who is not opposed to sleeping her way to the top. Brunetta (Kate Capshaw) is victimized by her lover Lionel (Michele Placido) when he dumps her for young Read More

12/29/87
Spago Cooking with Wolfgang Puck

Synopsis: Wolfgang Puck began his illustrious career as a pioneer of the fusion of California and French cuisine. Since then he has opened several successful restaurants and has authored many cookbooks. In this video, Puck presents recipes for appetizers, pizza and pasta, entrees, and desserts. The video Read More

1987
The Quick and the Dead

Actors: Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this made-for-HBO western stars Sam Elliott, an enigmatic gunslinger who comes to the aid of a family traveling through the wilderness. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Her Secret Life

Actors: Cliff De Young

Synopsis: 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 Read More

1987
Spacecamp

Actors: Leaf Phoenix, Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: This is an eerily prescient family adventure starring Kate Capshaw as Andie, a frustrated NASA astronaut who's never actually been into outer space. Her husband, flight controller Zach (Tom Skerritt), is sympathetic, but he can't influence her place in the rotation. Andie is assigned to train a Read More

6/6/86
Power

Actors: Richard Gere, Julie Christie, Gene Hackman, Kate Capshaw, Denzel Washington

Synopsis: A star-studded cast portrays political movers and shakers in this drama about politics and the media. Richard Gere is Pete St. John, a gilt-edged "image" advisor to the likes of powerful and often crooked politicians -- including a South American candidate for the top office in his country and Read More

1/31/86
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth

Synopsis: The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand Read More

1984
Best Defense

Actors: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, Helen Shaver, George Dzundza

Synopsis: Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy try but fail to bring this flat comedy to life, while the story itself is hampered by intercutting between the years of 1982 in Los Angeles (Moore) and 1984 in Kuwait (Murphy), with no explanation of how these two disparate people and locations are related. Wylie (Moore Read More

1984
Dreamscape

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw

Synopsis: Great special effects do not always make for a great film, but Dreamscape comes awfully close. Dr. Paul Novotny (Max Von Sydow) and Dr. Jane Devries (Kate Capshaw) run a clinic for the study of dreams. Hoping to alleviate the pain of those plagued with recurring nightmares, Novotny hires a team of Read More

1984
Windy City

Actors: John Shea, Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: In this film, Danny Morgan's (John Shea) life comes crashing down around him when he discovers that the two most important people in his life, Emily (Kate Capshaw) and his Sol (Josh Mostel), are about to fade out of it. Emily, his former girlfriend, is about to be married, and Sol, his close Read More

1984
Missing Children: A Mother's Story

Synopsis: Deserted by her no-good husband, Kate Bradshaw (Mare Winningham), an illiterate, unemployed mother of three, proves to be easy prey for a smooth-talking older woman, Mary Gertrude (Polly Holliday). Persuaded to enroll her kids in Mary Gertrude's "child care center," Kate soon realizes to her Read More

1982
A Little Sex

Actors: Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: In this feature comedy, a womanizer (Tim Matheson) marries his live-in girlfriend (Kate Capshaw) only to quickly resume his wicked ways. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982