# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-shepard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:48:50.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-shepard"
name: "Sam Shepard"
slug: "sam-shepard"
description: "Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. The New York magazine described Shepard as \"the greatest American playwright of his generation.\""
tagline: "American playwright and actor (1943–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Shepard_Stealth_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-11-05"
deathDate: "2017-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8594802378683838
  historical:           28.554608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Sam.Shepard.fanpage"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0001731"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.samshepardarchive.com"
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    title: "Sam Shepard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Shepard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump