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 Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 1989 Cool Blue Co-directed with Mark Mullin 1991 The Linguini Incident 1995 Mercy 1997 Below Utopia aka Body Count 1999 Oxygen 2000 Mexico City 2005 The Matador 2007 The Hunting Party 2013 Dom Hemingway 2018 The Perfection
Documentary film Year Title Director Producer Writer 2009 I Knew It Was You 2023 Film Geek
Television Year Title Director ExecutiveProducer Notes 1996 The Royale TV movie 2001 Class Warfare 2006 Ugly Betty Episode "Pilot"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series 2008 30 Rock Episode 2102011 Danni Lowinski Unaired pilot Ringer Episode "Pilot"2013 Girls 12 episodes Golden Boy Episode "Pilot" 2014 Salem Episode "The Vow" 2018 Sweetbitter Episode "Salt" 2019 The Twilight Zone Episode "The Wunderkind" 2020 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Episode "Pilot", film "Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas"2021 The Handmaid's Tale Episodes "Vows" and "Home" Acapulco Episode "Pilot" 2022 Welcome to Chippendales Episodes "Paper Is Paper" and "Switzerland" TBA Blank Slate Episode "Pilot"
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External links
eFilmCritic.com Interview with director Richard Shepard on the John Cazale Documentary "I Knew It Was You" Richard Shepard Interview on Scripts & Scribes