Sam Shepard Awards

Born:: November 5, 1943 in Fort Sheridan, IL
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter, Play Author
Birth name:: Samuel Shepard Rogers
Biography:: A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (for 1979's Buried Child), an Oscar-nominated actor, and a director and screenwriter to boot, multi-talented Sam Shepard has made a career of plumbing the darker depths of middle-American rural sensibilities and Western myths. The son of a military man, he was...Read More