Age, Biography and Wiki
Sam Shepard is an American actor, playwright, and director. He is best known for his plays, which include Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love. He has also acted in films such as The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, and Black Hawk Down.
Shepard was born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and grew up in Duarte, California. He attended Mount San Antonio College and the University of California, Davis, where he studied agriculture. He later moved to New York City, where he began writing plays.
Shepard has won numerous awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child in 1979, the Obie Award for Best Play for True West in 1981, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Right Stuff in 1983. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1986.
As of 2021, Sam Shepard's net worth is estimated to be $10 million.
| Popular As |
Samuel Shepard Rogers III |
| Occupation |
actor,writer,soundtrack |
| Age |
74 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
5 November, 1943 |
| Birthday |
5 November |
| Birthplace |
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA |
| Date of death |
27 July, 2017 |
| Died Place |
Midway, Kentucky, USA |
| Nationality |
United States |
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 74 years old group.
Sam Shepard Height, Weight & Measurements
At 74 years old, Sam Shepard height is 6' 2" (1.88 m) .
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| Height |
6' 2" (1.88 m) |
| Weight |
Not Available |
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Who Is Sam Shepard's Wife?
His wife is O-Lan Jones (9 November 1969 - 9 November 1984) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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| Parents |
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| Wife |
O-Lan Jones (9 November 1969 - 9 November 1984) ( divorced) ( 1 child) |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
Sam Shepard Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Sam Shepard worth at the age of 74 years old? Sam Shepard’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated
Sam Shepard's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Actor |
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Timeline
In January 2009 he was arrested for drunk driving in Normal, IL. In May 2015 he was arrested for drunk driving in Santa Fe, NM.
As of 2005 was living with Jessica Lange and their children outside of Stillwater, MN.
He played Ethan Hawke's father in both Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) and Hamlet (2000).
Is the third cast member of Steel Magnolias (1989) after Bibi Besch and Bill McCutcheon to pass away, dying 28 years after the film's release.
His sister Roxanne Rogers, a stage director, graduated in 1978 from Antioch.
Brandeis University presented him with the Creative Arts Medal in 1976.
Back in the US by 1974, he became playwright in residence at San Francisco's Magic Theater and continued to work as an increasingly well respected playwright throughout the 1970s and into the '80s.
He flirted with the world of rock, playing drums for the Holy Modal Rounders, then moved to London in 1971, where he continued writing.
Throughout this time he had been dabbling with Hollywood, having most notably in the early days worked as one of the writers on Zabriskie Point (1970), but it was his role as Chuck Yeager in 1983's The Right Stuff (1983) (co-starring Fred Ward and Dennis Quaid) that brought him to the attention of the wider, non-theater audience. Since then he has continued to write, act and direct, both on screen and in the theater.
Was a member of the rock band Holy Modal Rounders (1968-71).
Received a 1967 Rockefeller Foundation grant and a 1968 Guggenheim Foundation grant.
In 1962, though, a touring theater company, the Bishop's Company Repertory Players, visited the town and he joined up and left home to tour with them. He spent nearly two years with the company and eventually settled in New York where he began writing plays, first performing with an obscure off-off-Broadway group but eventually gaining recognition for his writing and winning prestigious OBIE awards (Off-Broadway) three years running.
Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base around the US until finally settling in Duarte, CA. While at high school he began acting and writing and worked as a ranch hand in Chino. He graduated high school in 1961 and then spent a year studying agriculture at Mount San Antonio Junior College, intending to become a vet.
Was the drummer for late 1960s bands "Lothar and the Hand People" and "The Holy Modal Rounders", according to a short interview in the August, 1970 issue of "Playboy" magazine (the former confirmed by the interviewer, who was at the Astor Place Theater in NYC to see a twin-bill of the then-26-year-old Shepard's plays, "The Unseen Hand" and "Forensic and the Navigators") and encountered Shepard drumming away in the lobby with Lothar, et al.
Brought up on a succession of military bases before his family settled on a farm near Duarte, CA. Worked in a ranch in Chino between 1958-60.
Son of Jane Elaine (Schook) Rogers (b. 1917) and Samuel Shepard Rogers (died in 1984), both teachers.
