Jessica Capshaw

Jessica Brooke Capshaw is an American actress. She is known for her roles on "The Practice" and "Grey's Anatomy". She was introduced in "Grey's Anatomy's" fifth season as an attending surgeon and the new head of pediatric surgery.

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

Capshaw had a minor role in the drama The Locusts (1997), co-starring her mother, at age nineteen. She subsequently had a role in Adam Rifkin's independent film Denial (1998). In the 2001 slasher film Valentine, Capshaw played Dorothy Wheeler. She then had a minor role in Minority Report (2002), and a lead role in Edward Burns's The Groomsmen (2006).

In 2009, she became a regular on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. It was first reported in December 2008 that Capshaw would be joining the cast of Grey's Anatomy as pediatric surgeon Arizona Robbins, for a multi-episode arc. Initially scheduled to appear in three episodes of the show's fifth season, series creator Shonda Rhimes later extended Capshaw's contract to appear in all of the season's remaining episodes, becoming a series regular in the sixth season. In March 2018, Capshaw exited Grey’s Anatomy, with the producers citing creative reasons.