Having a family background anchored on art, Hannah Jane Shepard resumes an individual with a family legacy of art and cultures. As a child of legendary playwright and actor Sam Shepard and a famous actress Jessica Lange, Hannah Jane established her individual trajectory and still remembers her family’s artistic background.
Early Life
Hannah Jane Shepard was born in Virginia on 13th January 1986, at a time when both of her parents were on their most creatively productive streak as artists. She had a childhood that was quite diverse moving back and forth from New York to Minnesota, the latter of which her mother owned a family home.
Thus, she was able to have a taste of both glorious cultural life of the big city and comparatively stable and wholesome country life of rural America. Similar to many other children of celeb parents she attended theater rehearsals and film shootings from her childhood and naturally got inspired with the creative environment her parents used to work in.
They did everything they could to give her a normal childhood, and they remove her from the circles of media hysteria, allowed her to find her own personality and hobbies.
It was also strategically acquired; she attended local schools so as to be as normal as possible while still being introduced to the arts side of life by her parents. She also expressed herself in literature, photographic, and the fine arts. The influence of her parents was always seen in her liking such things.
Career
Unlike her parents, Hannah Jane Shepard prefers to be creative outside the lime light. She has built a career of work that engages her in arts and at the same time, does not require her to be very public. Ample information concerns her career progress.
However, the company she serves in the visual arts industry interest section, with an emphasis on photography and art curation. From the various aspects of her professional engagements, Hannah Jane has shown good stewardship in the creation of her arts with regard to culture and her uniqueness.
She has been involved in occasional art shows and galleries, but she has not marketed herself as an artist born into a famous family but actually lets her art do the talking.
About Parents: Sam Shepard
These were the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play “Buried Child” and an Oscar award nomination for his performance in “The Right Stuff” in 1983.
In a fatherly way, Sam Shepard took his own aspiration of literature, storytelling, and staying true to content to share them with Hannah Jane. He can be observed in Hannah Jane’s consideration while thinking of her own creative endeavors, and her contempt for fame and favor as valuable goals.
Hannah Jane respected her father’s privacy as much as he respected hers. Additionally, she frequently attended his ranch situated in Kentucky to join him in riding horses and to maintain literary discussions that expanded her vision of the artistic life acknowledging the values of grounding as well.