The playwright, director and actor
Sam Shepard died over the weekend after a long battle with ALS. He was 73.
Shepard passed away surrounded by his children and sisters at his home in Kentucky on Sunday,
according to BroadwayWorld.
“The family requests privacy at this difficult time,” the spokesman for the family, Chris Boneau, told Page Six Monday.
Regarded as one of the best American playwrights of his generation, Shepard wrote 44 often avant-garde plays during his life, including “Curse of the Starving Class,” “A Lie of the Mind” and “Buried Child,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 2009, he received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist. He also wrote several books of short stories and essays.
Shepard was also a critically acclaimed actor in Hollywood, garnering an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film “The Right Stuff.” Just last year he appeared in the science fiction film “Midnight Special” and James Franco’s “In Dubious Battle.”
He was married to actress O-Lan Jones from 1969 to 1984, during which time he also had an affair with musician and poet
Patti Smith. In 1982 he met actress
Jessica Lange on the set of the film “Frances.” The two soon moved in together and would stay a couple until 2009.
He is survived by three children and two sisters.
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