Jessica Brooke Capshaw (born August 9, 1976) is an American actress known for her roles as Jamie Stringer on the ABC legal drama series The Practice, pediatric surgeon Dr. Arizona Robbins on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy and Blythe Hart on the ABC procedural drama 9-1-1: Nashville.
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Early life
Capshaw was born Jessica Brooke Capshaw on August 9, 1976, in Columbia, Missouri to Robert Capshaw and actress Kate Capshaw. She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg, whom her mother married when Jessica was 15.
Capshaw graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1994, then attended Brown University, where she was in productions of Arcadia and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. During summers, she attended classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she appeared as Puck in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Career
Capshaw had a minor role as Jeremy Davies' potential love interest in The Locusts (1997), which starred her mother, then appeared in Adam Rifkin's independent film Denial (1998). She played Dorothy Wheeler in the slasher film Valentine (2001), had a minor role in Minority Report (2002), then a lead role in Edward Burns's The Groomsmen (2006).
