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Sam Shepard is an actor, film director, screenwriter (United States).
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society.
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| Born | 5 November 1943 |
| Profession | actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Nationality | United States |
| Educated at | Mt. San Antonio College, Duarte High School, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center |
| Spouse | O-Lan Jones |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Guggenheim Fellowship, Obie Award, PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, New York Drama Critics Award, star on Playwrights' Sidewalk, Fellow of the Ameri |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Capricorn |
| Nakshatra | Dhanishta (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Libra |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Pisces |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 666 Hollywood personalities with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 62 of them (9%) have the Moon in Capricorn, like Sam Shepard, and 31 (5%) share the Dhanishta Nakshatra — the most common Moon Nakshatra among Hollywood personalities.
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Sam Shepard was born on 5 November 1943. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Sam Shepard's Moon sign (Rashi) is Capricorn and the Nakshatra is Dhanishta, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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