Which actress did Steven Spielberg marry in 1991?

Steven Spielberg married actress Kate Capshaw in 1991. They married on October 12, after meeting when Spielberg cast Capshaw as Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Capshaw’s role in the 1984 adventure film was her best-known early connection to Spielberg, who directed the movie. The couple later married in both a civil ceremony and an Orthodox Jewish ceremony. Capshaw, who was originally Episcopalian, converted to Judaism before the wedding.

Their blended family includes children from earlier relationships, adopted children and children they had together. Spielberg had previously been married to actress Amy Irving; that marriage ended in divorce in 1989. Because Capshaw appeared in an Indiana Jones film, she is sometimes remembered primarily as a franchise performer, but her marriage to Spielberg and her later family life are also prominent parts of her biography. She is not Karen Allen, who played Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark.