Jessica Capshaw

Jessica Capshaw (born August 9 1976) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the ABC legal drama The Practice and as pediatric attending Dr. Arizona Robbins on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

Capshaw was born in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive, and high school principal.^[1] She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994 and Brown University in 1998 with an English degree. She then attended acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London. In the motion picture, Valentine, she played Dorothy Wheeler. Capshaw married Christopher Gavigan, CEO of Healthy Child, Healthy World, on May 22, 2004 in East Hampton. On September 8, 2007 she and her husband welcomed their first child Luke Gavigan. In 2009, Jessica became a regular on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy reunited with former The Practice co-star Chyler Leigh.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	The Locusts	Patsy
2000	Big Time
2001	Valentine	Dorothy Wheeler
2002	Minority Report
2002	The Practice	Jamie Stringer	Recurrent role
2005	Into the West	Rachel Wheeler	Mini-series
2006	The Groomsmen	Jen
	Thick and Thin	Mary
	Bones	Rebecca	2 episodes (guest star)
2007	The L Word	Nadia
2007	Blind Trust	Cassie Stewart
2009 -	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Arizona Robbins	Series Regular

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