Jessica Capshaw

Jessica Capshaw is an American actress who was born in Columbia, Missouri, studied English literature at Brown University and spent summers at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her early screen work included a minor part in The Locusts (1997) and a role in Adam Rifkin's independent film Denial, followed by Valentine (2001), in which she played Dorothy Wheeler. She had a small role in Minority Report (2002) and a lead in Edward Burns's The Groomsmen (2006). In 2009 she became a regular on Grey's Anatomy as pediatric surgeon Arizona Robbins, a part planned for a few episodes that was extended, and she left the show in 2018, when the producers cited creative reasons. She also played Jamie Stringer on The Practice, and in 2025 she joined the 9-1-1 spinoff 9-1-1: Nashville as Blythe Hart.