Career
Capshaw moved to New York to pursue her dream of acting, landing her first role on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She starred in Dreamscape in 1984. She met film director Steven Spielberg upon winning the female lead for the Raiders of the Lost Ark prequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). In addition, she appeared as Andie Bergstrom, a camp instructor in the 1986 film SpaceCamp.
Capshaw also starred in the spy film/romance, Code Name Dancer. Capshaw was featured in films throughout the late '80s into the '90s including Black Rain, Just Cause, Private Affairs and The Love Letter, and was also featured in the 1997 film The Alarmist with David Arquette and Stanley Tucci. In 2001, she starred in the Showtime Cable Network miniseries A Girl Thing with Elle Macpherson. Also she starred as Susanna McKaskel in The Quick and The Dead (1987) with Sam Elliott.
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