Richard Shepard Biography

American screenwriterFor those of a similar name, see Richard Sheppard (disambiguation).

Richard Shepard (born 1965) is an American film and television director and screenwriter.

Biography

Shepard was born in New York City, New York. Shepard's father was from an Austro-Hungarian-Jewish background and his mother was of Armenian descent.

In 2007, Shepard received a Directors Guild of America Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for the television pilot for Ugly Betty. Shepard's next film, The Perfection, was financed by Miramax, and started its production in early 2018. It was released in 2019 by Netflix.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

    External links

    • Official website
    • Richard Shepard at IMDb
    • Richard Shepard at AllMovie
    • eFilmCritic.com Interview with director Richard Shepard on the John Cazale Do*entary "I Knew It Was You"
    • Richard Shepard Interview on Scripts & Scribes
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