Richard Shepard

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Richard Shepard
Born1965 (age 5758)
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]

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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. [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.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
1989 Cool Blue YesYesNoCo-directed with Mark Mullin
1991 The Linguini Incident YesYesNo
1995 Mercy YesYesYes
1997 Below Utopia NoYesNo
1999 Oxygen YesYesYes
2000 Mexico City YesYesYes
2005 The Matador YesYesNo
2007 The Hunting Party YesYesNo
2009 I Knew It Was You YesNoYesDocumentary
2013 Dom Hemingway YesYesNo
2018 The Perfection YesYesYes

Television

YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer
Notes
1996The RoyaleYesNoTV movie
2001 Class Warfare YesNo
2006 Ugly Betty YesNoEpisode "Pilot"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
2008 30 Rock YesNoEpisode 210
2011 Danni Lowinski YesNoUnaired pilot
Ringer YesYesEpisode "Pilot"
2013 Girls YesNo12 episodes
Golden Boy YesYesEpisode "Pilot"
2014 Salem YesYesEpisode "The Vow"
2018 Sweetbitter YesYesEpisode "Salt"
2019 The Twilight Zone YesNoEpisode "The Wunderkind"
2020 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist YesYesEpisode "Pilot", Film "Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas"
2021 The Handmaid's Tale YesNoEpisodes "Vows" and "Home"
Acapulco YesYesEpisode "Pilot"
2022 Welcome to Chippendales YesNoEpisodes "Paper is Paper" and "Switzerland"
TBABlank SlateYesYesEpisode "Pilot" [4]

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References

  1. "Richard Shepard". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2007. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007.
  2. Arkun, Aram (2012-06-15). "The Two Hollywood Worlds of Richard Shepard". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator.
  3. Mike Fleming Jr. (2017-09-13). "Miramax Buys Richard Shepard's Next Pic, 'The Perfection'". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  4. White, Peter (March 1, 2022). "'Blank Slate': Richard Shepard To Direct & EP NBC Drama Pilot". Deadline Hollywood.