Jewel Shepard

Acting

Jewel Shepard arrived in California in the 1970s,^[3] where she supported herself by working as a stripper in various Los Angeles strip clubs and modeling for car shoots. It was during her time stripping that she met genre filmmaker Dan O'Bannon. After a number of small television roles, Shepard broke into film with H. B. Halicki's The Junkman (1982).^[4] Roles in over a dozen B movies followed; including 1985's The Return of the Living Dead, which was directed and written by O'Bannon, and then in the 1987 film Party Camp.^[5]

Writing

In 1992 she capitalized on her "B-girl" status by penning Invasion of the B-Girls, a book of interviews with cult actresses such as Kitten Natividad, Linnea Quigley, Yvette Vickers, Haji, and Mary Woronov.^[6]

She has also written for such publications as Esquire,^[7] Premiere, Cosmopolitan, Details, and The Associated Press.^{[citation needed]}

Her autobiography, If I'm So Famous, How Come Nobody's Ever Heard of Me?,^[7][8] detailing some of the less glamorous aspects of film making and her experiences working in adult entertainment, was published in 1996.^[9]

Film

Television

Music videos