Richard Shepard
☼ Born on 20 December 1965, in New York
BiographyRichard 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, now in its third season. 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. The restoration of Shepard's first film "The Linguini Incident" starring Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie-- made when he was 25-- screened throughout the country this summer and is now out Blu-ray and is on the Criterion Channel. Shepard's latest documentary, the autobiographical "Film Geek", premiered at The American Cinematheque in LA and Film Forum in NY, and will debut on TCM in 2025.
In the role of director
Dom Hemingway (20/04/2014)
Jude Law sleazes it up in the British dark comedy Dom Hemingway. The titular Hemingway (Law) is a foul mouthed, heavy drinking larger-than-life safecracker, who just spent twelve years in prison after refusing to testify against his boss Mr. Fontaine (Demián Bichir). Upon his release, Hemingway immediately reteams with his best friend Dickie Black (Richard […]