Quinn Shephard Biography
Quinn Shephard is an American actress, screenwriter, film director, film producer and film editor. She is well known for her roles in the holiday comedy Unaccompanied Minors as Donna Malone and as Morgan Sanders in the television series Hostages. In 2017, her feature film directorial debut, Blame (which she also wrote, produced, edited and starred in), screened at several film festivals and earned critical attention.
Quinn Shephard Age
Quinn Shephard was born on February 28, 1995 in New Jersey, U.S.
Quinn Shephard Height
She stands at a height of 1.69 m
Quinn Shephard Net Worth
Quinn Shephard Education
Shephard grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey and the surrounding New York area where she went to Metuchen High School, which was used to film scenes from her movie Blame.
Quinn Shephard Career
Her big screen debut was in the 2001 French film Harrison’s Flowers at the age of five. Her first starring role was in the holiday comedy feature film Unaccompanied Minors. During the 29th Young Artist Awards, Shephard and her co-stars were nominated for Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film. She later appeared in the comedy film Assassination of a High School President in 2008 and the horror film Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl in 2016.
She has also appeared on television. She played the recurring role of Morgan Sanders in the 2013 CBS thriller series Hostages. from 2014 to 2015, Shephard portrayed Claire Mahoney in the fourth season of Person of Interest. She has played guest roles in several television series, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011, Made in Jersey in 2012, The Blacklist in 2013 and Believe in 2014.
Shephard was the recipient of the Rising Star Award in 2015 at the Garden State Film Festival. She appeared in the 2018 film The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival; it won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Drama, the festival’s highest honor.
Quinn Shephard Director
She developed the script for her first feature film, Blame, for several years. After her financier fell through in 2016, during the first week of shooting, she partially self-financed Blame using money from her college fund. The film was shot in 19 days and Shephard produced it with her mother, Laurie Shephard. She also starred in the film as Abigail Grey, together woth Chris Messina, Nadia Alexander, and Tate Donovan.
Blame screened at several film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival, making Shephard the youngest female director to debut a film there. The film was nominated for several awards at Tribeca and won the award for Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature (for Alexander’s performance). The film received generally positive reviews from critics; it holds an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while on Metacritic it holds a 54/100 rating.
IndieWire called it a “solid debut”, while writing that, though it “isn’t fully realized”, it establishes Shephard as “someone to watch”. The film was described by Glenn Kenny of The New York Times as “earnest but underdeveloped”. Filmmaker called the film “a poignant and incisive examination of modern American adolescence.” The film was called by the Hollywood Reporter as “a mixed bag of a directorial debut”.
Quinn Shephard Movies
- 2001 Harrison’s Flowers Margaux Lloyd
- 2004 From Other Worlds Linda Schwartzbaum
- 2006 Unaccompanied Minors Donna Malone
- 2008 Assassination of a High School President Eye Patch Girl
- 2013 Trooper Olive Flaxton
- 2014 And, We’re Out of Time Scarlett
- 2016 Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl Beth
- 2017 Blame Abigail Grey Director, producer, writer, editor
- 2017 Redliners Katie Rhymer
- 2018 Windsor Kat
- 2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post Coley Taylor
- 2018 Midnight Sun Morgan
Quinn Shephard TV Shows
- 2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Emma Butler Episode: “Lost Traveller”
- 2012 Made in Jersey Kate Garretti
- 2013–14 Hostages Morgan Sanders main cast
- 2013 The Blacklist Abby Fisher
- 2014 Believe Sasha Ferrel
- 2014–15 Person of Interest Claire Mahoney 2 episodes
- 2015 Almost There Scarlett 4 episodes
- 2018 God Friended Me Rachel Blake Episode: “Unfriended”
- 2018 Bull Tally North Episode: “A Girl Without Feelings”