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Life and career

Spielberg was born at

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in Los Angeles, the daughter of film director

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and actress Kate Capshaw. Her father is from an

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family, and her mother is a Jewish convert. She is their first child together, although each has children from previous relationships. She has three sisters: Mikaela Spielberg, Destry Spielberg, and half-sister Jessica Capshaw, as well as three brothers: Sawyer Spielberg, Theo Spielberg, and half-brother Max Spielberg. She graduated from

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. Spielberg has acted in several of her father's movies, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' The Post''. She performed in the band Wardell (previously known as Brother/Sister) with her brother Theo. Their Brother/Sister EP ''The Accidental Zoo'' was released on April 4, 2011. Their album ''Love/Idleness'' was released in 2015. Spielberg has collaborated with composer and fellow Brown University alumnus Nicolas Jaar under the name Just Friends. They released a cover of

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's "

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" and an original song, "Don't Tell Me." In 2015, Spielberg produced, wrote for, and starred in

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's first mobile series, ''Literally Can't Even.'' She also shares her mini-improv sketches on

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. On April 27, 2018, she released her solo EP ''Facepaint,'' with five songs. Spielberg has also collaborated with rapper and producer

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on several occasions, the first in 2019 on JPEGMafia's song "Dots Freestyle Remix", from his third studio album, '' All My Heroes Are Cornballs'', where Spielberg was a featured artist. They collaborated again on the song "Nemo!" on JPEGMafia's fourth studio album, '' LP!''. They continued this partnership on his fifth studio album, '' I Lay Down My Life for You'', where she is featured on the songs "Don't Put Anything On the Bible" and "I Lay Down My Life For You". She has also collaborated with rapper

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on the song "John Wayne" on Curry's fourth studio album '' Melt My Eyez See Your Future''. The song was produced by

Personal life

In May 2022, Spielberg married Harry McNally, son of restaurateur

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Filmography

Discography

References

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* * Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses 21st-century American singers Actresses from Los Angeles American child actresses American film actresses American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Brown University alumni Sasha Jewish American actresses 1990 births {{US-film-actor-1990s-stub