Jessica Capshaw is an American television and film actress. She was born in Columbia, Missouri to actress Kate Capshaw and salesman Bob Capshaw. Her stepfather is Hollywood film director Stephen Spielberg.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/bio

Capshaw has appeared in some films, but generally keeps to television roles which include a two-year recurring role in David E. Kelley's legal drama The Practice. She joined the cast of medical drama Grey's Anatomy in 2009 as Dr. Arizona Robbins.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/ In 2004, Capshaw married Christopher Gavigan, CEO of the non-profit "Healthy Child, Healthy World" program. The couple have two children together. Their son, Luke, was born September 8, 2007 and the couple's daughter, Eve Augusta, was born on October 20, 2010. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20438253,00.html http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/bio

When she was born in Missouri in 1976, Jessica Capshaw's parents Kate and Bob were both students at the University of Missouri. They moved to New York to follow Kate's modeling career and soon divorced when Jessica was three.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/bio Kate wed Spielberg when Jessica was 15, and between her three parents she became one of 10 biological and adopted siblings.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/bio Jessica graduated from Brown University in 1998 with a degree in English and then attended acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. While she had already appeared on-screen in 1997 in a film with her mother and Vince Vaughn titled The Locusts, the schooling led to the actress' 1999 guest appearance on long-running television series ER.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/

Capshaw followed it up with an appearance in The Love Letter film, also in 1999, and in 2000 appeared in the films Big Time and Killing Cinderella. From 1999 to 2000 she played Jordan on the Odd Man Out television series, and 2001 saw her in horror film Valentine and television movie The Back Page. In 2002, Capshaw appeared in three films - The Mesmerist, Romeo Fire and her step-father's film Minority Report. The same year Capshaw began a two-year stint in the recurring role of Jamie Stringer on the television series The Practice. Following that year, Capshaw appeared in a number of television shows including Thick and Thin (2006), Bones (2006), The L Word (2007) and Head Case (2009). In 2009 she took up the role of Dr. Arizona Robbins, pediatric surgeon at Seattle Grace Hospital, on the ABC medical television drama Grey's Anatomy. Capshaw missed several episodes of Grey's Anatomy in 2010 while awaiting the birth of her second child. She has been cast in the television movie One Angry Juror.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/bio

1997: The Locusts

1998: Denial

1999: ER (TV series)

1999: The Love Letter

1999-2000: Odd Man Out (TV series)

2000: Killing Cinderella

2000: Big Time

2001: The Back Page

2001: Valentine

2002: The Mesmerist

2002: Minority Report

2002: Romeo Fire (TV movie)

2002-2004: The Practice (TV series)

2003: View from the Top

2005: Manifest Destiny

2005: Into the West (TV mini-series)

2006: Thick and Thin (TV series)

2006: The Groomsmen

2006: Bones (TV series)

2007: The L Word (TV series)

2007: Blind Trust (TV movie)

2009: Head Case (TV series) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/

2009-2010: Grey's Anatomy (TV series)http://www.usmagazine.com/momsbabies /news/jessica-capshaw-is-thrilled-shes-expecting-second-child-201084

2010: One Angry Juror (TV movie)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004800/

"I think the interesting thing about this show (Grey's Anatomy) and how it all came to be is that when I first saw it when it first aired as a mid-season show seven years ago I loved it!...So it was just one of those things that really made me happy on a professional level and also really happy on a personal level,"—Interview with Jim Haltermann in 2009http://jimhalterman.com/interviews/interview-jessica-capshaw-for-arizona-and-callie-on-greys-anatomy/