Steven Spielberg's Wife and Relationship History

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From 1985 to 1989, Steven Spielberg was married to Amy Irving. They had a son together.

In 1991, Steven Spielberg married Kate Capshaw. Spielberg adopted two children with Capshaw, and had three other children. 

This list of Steven Spielberg’s girlfriends and rumored exes includes Margot Kidder and Valerie Bertinelli.

  • Kate Capshaw
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    After casting her in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg later started dating Kate Capshaw in 1988. They married on October 12, 1991, and Capshaw converted to Judaism. She also adopted Theo (born August 21, 1988) before her marriage to Spielberg, who later also adopted him.

    They had daughter Sasha Rebecca Spielberg on May 14, 1990; son Sawyer Avery Spielberg on March 10, 1992; and daughter Destry Allyn Spielberg (born December 1, 1996). The couple also adopted daughter Mikaela George (born February 28, 1996). 

  • Valerie Bertinelli
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    After she auditioned for a role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Valerie Bertinelli dated Steven Spielberg in 1980.

    Valerie Anne Bertinelli (born April 23, 1960) is an American actress and television personality. She is known for her roles as Barbara Cooper Royer on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–84), Gloria on the religious drama series Touched by an Angel (2001–03) and Melanie Moretti on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland (2010–15). Since 2015, she has hosted the cooking shows Valerie's Home Cooking and Kids Baking Championship on Food Network.
  • Amy Irving
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    While looking for an actress to cast in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg met Amy Irving, who turned out to be too young for the role, in 1976. They lived together until their break-up in 1979.

    They got back together in 1985, and married on November 27, 1985. They later divorced in February 1989.

    They had son Max on June 13, 1985.

  • Margot Kidder
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    Steven Spielberg and Margot Kidder had a relationship in the 1980s.

    Margaret Ruth Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018), professionally known as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress, director, and activist whose career spanned over five decades. Her accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award. Though she appeared in an array of films and television, Kidder is most widely known for her performance as Lois Lane in the Superman film series, appearing in the first four films. Born in Yellowknife to a Canadian mother and an American father, Kidder was raised in the Northwest Territories as well as several other Canadian provinces. She began her acting career in the 1960s appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970). She then played twins in Brian De Palma's cult thriller Sisters (1973), a sorority student in the slasher film Black Christmas (1974) and the titular character's girlfriend in the drama The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), opposite Robert Redford. In 1977, she was cast as Lois Lane in Richard Donner's Superman (1978), a role which established her as a mainstream actress. Her performance as Kathy Lutz in the blockbuster horror film The Amityville Horror (1979) gained her further mainstream exposure, after which she went on to reprise her role as Lois Lane in Superman II, III, and IV (1980–1987). The 1990s were marked by significant health problems for Kidder: In 1990, she sustained serious injuries in a car accident that left her temporarily paralyzed, and she later had a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996 stemming from bipolar disorder. By the 2000s, she maintained steady work in independent films and television, with guest-starring roles on Smallville, Brothers & Sisters and The L Word, and appeared in a 2002 Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance on the children's television series R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour. In 2005, Kidder became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She was an outspoken political, environmental and anti-war activist, and continued to participate in political and activist causes through the end of her life. Kidder died on May 13, 2018 at her home in Livingston, Montana, aged 69, in what was later ruled a suicide by alcohol and drug overdose.
  • Janet Maslin
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    Steven Spielberg and film critic Janet Maslin had a relationship sometime in the 1970s.

    Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as a Times film critic from 1977 to 1999 and a book critic from 2000 to 2015.
  • Sarah Miles
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    Steven Spielberg and Sarah Miles had a relationship sometime in the 1960s.

    Sarah Miles (born 31 December 1941) is an English theatre and film actress. Her best-known films include The Servant (1963), Blowup (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and Hope and Glory (1987).