Sam Shepard Profile
| Full Name: | Sam Shepard - Contact Sam Shepard |
| Birth Name: | Samuel Shepard Rogers |
| Famous As: | Actor, playwright |
| Date of Birth: | November 05, 1943 |
| Place of Birth: | Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA |
| Height: | 6' 1? |
| Nationality: | American |
| Relationships: | Patti Smith (composer), Jessica Lange (actress, cohabitated, since 1982) |
| Father: | Samuel Shepard Rogers (d. 1984) |
| Mother: | Jane Elaine Rogers |
| Spouse: | O-Lan Jones (actress, Nov 9, 1969 - 1984) |
| Son(s): | Jesse (b. May 1970), Walker (b. June 14, 1987) |
| Daughter(s): | Hanna Jane Shepard (b.1985) |
| Education: | Graduated from Lincoln Elementary School in South Pasadena, CA Graduated from Duarte High School in Duarte, CA in 1961 Attended Mount San Antonio Junior College in Walnut, CA |
| Claim to Fame: | Play Buried Child (1978) |
Sam Shepard News
Calendar Live - Found 12 hours ago
John Langs directs Sam Shepard's dark comedy about two families struggling in the aftermath of a brutal wife-beating.
Film School Rejects - Found Nov. 21, 2009
... night out of prison, at Sam?s farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie (Mare Winningham) and Hank Cahill (Sam Shepard), a retired Marine.
Variety - Found Nov. 20, 2009
Playwright-thesp Sam Shepard has been tapped to star in "Tough Trade," the first original drama pilot set for the fledgling Epix feevee channel.
Sam Shepard to star in Epix pilot - Hollywood Reporter
Sam Shepard to Star in EPIX`s FirstOriginalDrama Series Pilot Tough ... - Reuters
Sam Shepard to star in Epix pilot - Reuters
SAM SHEPARD TO STAR IN EPIX'S FIRST ORIGINAL DRAMA SERIES PILOT ... - Futon Critic
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Hollywood ReporterNew York Times - Found Nov. 17, 2009
... people must have felt during productions of the early works of Eugene O?Neill in the 1920s or of Sam Shepard in the 1960s. In recent years...
Lives in the Bayou Tap All the Realism of Dreams - New York Times
NY Review: 'The Brother/Sister Plays' - BackStage.com
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BackStage.comUSA Today - Found Nov. 16, 2009
- The New Yorker has a new piece by Sam Shepard. - Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall got honorary Oscars yesterday.
Times Online - Found Nov. 13, 2009
Before he achieved fame, the actor Dustin Hoffman waited on tables at the club. The playwright Sam Shepard was a bus boy.
New York Times - Found Nov. 12, 2009
... interested in the backstage intrigue behind plays like Jason Miller?s ?That Championship Season,? Sam Shepard?s ?True West? and...
TMC Net - Found Nov. 20, 2009
--(Business Wire)-- Acclaimed actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard is set to star in Lionsgate's 'Tough Trade,' the first...
NewsBlaze - Found Nov. 20, 2009
- (BUSINESS WIRE) - Acclaimed actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard is set to star in Lionsgate's "Tough Trade," the first...
Dallas Morning News - Found Oct. 31, 2009
As a playwright, Sam Shepard is at his best when he skews reality into the realm of myth.














