Background
Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, the daughter of Beverley Sue (née Simon), a travel agent and beautician, and Edwin Leon Nail, an airline employee.
Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, the daughter of Beverley Sue (née Simon), a travel agent and beautician, and Edwin Leon Nail, an airline employee.
She moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, at the age of five, and graduated from Hazelwood Senior High, now called Hazelwood Central High School in 1972.
She taught Special Education at Southern Boone County High School in Ashland, Missouri, and Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. However, she kept the surname Capshaw and adopted it as her professional name upon becoming an actress. 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.
In addition, she appeared as Andie Bergstrom, an appealing and stern yet frustrated camp instructor, in the 1986 cult classic film SpaceCamp and starred as Susanna McKaskel in The Quick and The Dead (1987) with Sam Elliott. Capshaw also starred in the spy film/romance Code Name Dancer.
Capshaw was featured in films throughout the late 1980s into the 1990s, 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.
Kate was also in the film, "A Little Sex" with Tim Matheson in 1982.
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Capshaw earned a degree in education from the University of Missouri, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi.