Meet Steven Spielberg's Family: A Guide to His 7 Kids

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While Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving were married for only four years, they knew each other for much longer.

"We were together for 14 years," the actress revealed on The Hollywood Reporter’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast in 2025, “with three years off for good behavior.”

While Amy has acted in several films—including Carrie, Yentl and Crossing Delancey—she never appeared in Steven’s movies. However, she said she was up to play Marion (Karen Allen) in his 1981 Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark but lost the role during an off-period of their on-again, off-again relationship: "You walk out, you don’t get the part."

Still, they wed in 1985. And while they divorced in 1989—Amy going on to marry Bruno Barreto and then Kenneth Bowser and Steven wedding Kate Capshaw—she noted they remain "very much family."

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Speaking of family, Amy and Steven welcomed son Max Spielberg in 1985 and continued to co-parent after their split. Like his dad, Max is often in the studio—albeit a different kind as he makes video games. And the FuzzyBot creative director noted Steven "loves gaming."

"He’s a big PC gamer," Max continued on MinnMax in 2024, sharing he'll often recommend games to his dad. "So, that’s our bonding point as well."

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Steven met Kate—a teacher turned actress—when she auditioned for his 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, landing the role of Willie Scott. Both in relationships at the time, they didn’t date until years later, with Kate previously telling The Spokesman-Review they moved in together in 1989 following Steven's split from Amy.

The couple wed two years later. And while Kate appeared in other films—including Black Rain, Just Cause and The Love Letter—she stepped away from acting in the early aughts to focus on their family.

"Kate has made such a life for me," Steven said at SXSW 2026. "We brought seven kids into the world—two of them adopted. We now have six grandchildren. And that is the real stuff."

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When Steven tied the knot with Kate, he became stepdad to her daughter Jessica Capshaw—born in 1976—from her first marriage to Robert Capshaw.

In addition to appearing in stepdad Steven's 2002 film Minority Report, the actress has starred in TV shows such as 9-1-1: Nashville, Grey’s Anatomy and The Practice as well as in movies, including Holidate, Dear Zoe and Valentine.

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According to The New York Times, Kate adopted Theo Spielberg before she married Steven. And after the couple wed, the famed director adopted him too.

Theo, born in 1988, served as a production assistant on Steven's 2008 movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and was a researcher for the 2011 documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

However, the Yale graduate later pivoted to music and formed the band Wardell with his sister Sasha. And Theo still remembers the musical carpool game Steven would play with them when they were kids.

"When my dad would drive us, we'd play 'Name That Score,'" he recalled to Vanity Fair in 2016. "He’d put on a movie score and we’d have to guess it within five seconds."

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"I’d take a day off from high school or middle school to shoot, and I felt so cool," she recalled to Rolling Stone in 2018. "It was just a cute, endearing bonding experience."

 Sasha also bonded with Harry McNally, and they married in 2022.

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Acting also led Sawyer to meet his wife Raye Levine. 

"We were both taking a class together and it was an immediate connection," he told Tatler in 2021. "We’ve been tied at the hip ever since."

As Sawyer revealed to 27East.com in 2023, he and Raye later grew their family by welcoming daughter Fynn and son Callum.

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Born in 1996, Mikaela Spielberg was adopted by Steven and Kate. Over the years, she's made headlines over her run-in with the law—she was arrested in 2020 on a count of domestic violence/assault with bodily injury and released hours later, per court records—and her career.

Creating digital prints and sketches, Mikaela told Whitehot Magazine in 2020 she refers to herself as a "multi-medium" artist. She's also worked with adult content platforms.

"I’m really enjoying work, and it’s giving me a whole new life-affirming way to be,” she told Daily Beast in 2020. "It opened up a gateway into being able to dance. The best part of it has been that anytime I want to I can just go into work, and go dance."

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Just like her parents Kate and Steven, Destry Allyn Spielberg, born in 1996, is an actress and a director. In front of the camera, she appeared in Licorice Pizza, I Know This Much Is True and Mass Hysteria. Behind it, she spearheaded Please Don't Feed the Children as well as shorts Let Me Go the Right Way and Rosie.

In February 2026, Destry announced her engagement to Jake Herskowitz.