Richard Shepard | |
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Born | 1965 (age 58–59) New York City, New York, United States |
Occupation(s) | Director, writer, producer |
Partner | Jennifer Konner |
Richard Shepard (born 1965) is an American film and television director and screenwriter. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3] It was released in 2019 by Netflix.
Film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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1989 | Cool Blue | Yes | Yes | No | Co-directed with Mark Mullin |
1991 | The Linguini Incident | Yes | Yes | No | |
1995 | Mercy | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
1997 | Below Utopia | No | Yes | No | |
1999 | Oxygen | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2000 | Mexico City | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2005 | The Matador | Yes | Yes | No | |
2007 | The Hunting Party | Yes | Yes | No | |
2009 | I Knew It Was You | Yes | No | Yes | Documentary |
2013 | Dom Hemingway | Yes | Yes | No | |
2018 | The Perfection | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2023 | Film Geek [4] [5] [6] [7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary |
Television
Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer | Notes |
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1996 | The Royale | Yes | No | TV movie |
2001 | Class Warfare | Yes | No | |
2006 | Ugly Betty | Yes | No | Episode "Pilot" Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series |
2008 | 30 Rock | Yes | No | Episode 210 |
2011 | Danni Lowinski | Yes | No | Unaired pilot |
Ringer | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" | |
2013 | Girls | Yes | No | 12 episodes |
Golden Boy | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" | |
2014 | Salem | Yes | Yes | Episode "The Vow" |
2018 | Sweetbitter | Yes | Yes | Episode "Salt" |
2019 | The Twilight Zone | Yes | No | Episode "The Wunderkind" |
2020 | Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot", Film "Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas" |
2021 | The Handmaid's Tale | Yes | No | Episodes "Vows" and "Home" |
Acapulco | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" | |
2022 | Welcome to Chippendales | Yes | No | Episodes "Paper is Paper" and "Switzerland" |
TBA | Blank Slate | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" [8] |
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