Biography

Richard Shepard is an Emmy and DGA-winning director/writer whose feature films include the Golden Globe nominated "The Matador" starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear, "Dom Hemingway" starring Jude Law and Richard E. Grant, and "The Perfection" starring Allison Williams and Logan Browning. In his career, Shepard has directed ten television pilots to pick-up including "Criminal Minds", now entering its 17th season; "Ugly Betty" for which Shepard won the Director's Guild award and Emmy award; the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist"; and "Acapulco" for Apple. Through its six seasons, Shepard directed twelve episodes of the Golden Globe winning HBO series "Girls", including "One Man's Trash", "Panic in Central Park" and the Emmy nominated "American Bitch" episodes, as well as several Emmy nominated episodes of "The Handmaid's Tale". He directed the final two episodes of the multiple Emmy nominated "Welcome to Chippendales" a Hulu limited series. He has directed four episodes of the Emmy nominated "Nobody Wants This". The restoration of Shepard's first film "The Linguini Incident" starring Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie-- made when he was 25-- is now out Blu-ray. Shepard's latest documentary, the autobiographical "Film Geek", premiered at The American Cinematheque in LA and Film Forum in NY, and is now on HBO/Max.
- IMDb mini biography by: Richard Shepard

Attended NYU's film school but did not graduate because he failed his required science class.

Attended NYU with actress Maura Tierney, with whom he remains close friends.

The son of Robert Shepard.

Met friend Mark Mullin when they both attended The Lenox School in New York City.

Getting any movie made is a miracle. It's so hard. Clearly I would love more money, but control -- which you normally don't have when it's a bigger movie -- is more important to me.

Okay let's do one more take for Lloyds of London.