Richard Shepard


Richard Shepard 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
YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
1989Cool BlueCo-directed with Mark Mullin
1991The Linguini Incident
1995Mercy
1997Below Utopiaaka Body Count
1999Oxygen
2000Mexico City
2005The Matador
2007The Hunting Party
2013Dom Hemingway
2018The Perfection

Documentary film
YearTitleDirectorProducerWriter
2009I Knew It Was You
2023Film Geek

Television
YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer
Notes
1996The RoyaleTV movie
2001Class WarfareTV movie
2006Ugly BettyEpisode "Pilot"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
200830 RockEpisode 210
2011Danni LowinskiUnaired pilot
2011RingerEpisode "Pilot"
2013Girls12 episodes
2013Golden BoyEpisode "Pilot"
2014SalemEpisode "The Vow"
2018SweetbitterEpisode "Salt"
2019The Twilight ZoneEpisode "The Wunderkind"
2020Zoey's Extraordinary PlaylistEpisode "Pilot", film "Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas"
2021The Handmaid's TaleEpisodes "Vows" and "Home"
2021AcapulcoEpisode "Pilot"
2022Welcome to ChippendalesEpisodes "Paper Is Paper" and "Switzerland"
TBABlank SlateEpisode "Pilot"