Jessica Capshaw

Jessica Brooke Capshaw (born August 9, 1976) is an American actress known for her roles as Jamie Stringer in The Practice, and as Dr. Arizona Robbins on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.

Capshaw was born August 9, 1976 in Columbia, Missouri,[1] the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw, and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive and high school principal.[citation needed] She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg, whom her mother married when Capshaw was 15.[2]

She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1994, then attended Brown University,[3] where she was in productions of Arcadia and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.[1] She graduated in 1998 with a B.A. in English.[1] During summers, she attended classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London,[4] where she appeared as Puck in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.[