Quinn Shephard

Quinn Shephard is an American actor and filmmaker who works as a writer, producer, director and editor. She grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey. Her feature debut came at age five in the 2001 French film Harrison's Flowers, and her first starring part was in the holiday comedy Unaccompanied Minors (2006), which earned her and her co-stars a Young Artist Award nomination. She later appeared in the horror film Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016). On television she had a recurring part as Morgan Sanders in the CBS thriller Hostages in 2013 and played Claire Mahoney during the fourth season of Person of Interest from 2014 to 2015. In 2015 the Garden State Film Festival gave her its Rising Star Award. Her first feature as director, Blame (2017), screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. She appeared in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018), which won Sundance's U.S. Drama Grand Jury Prize, and wrote and directed Not Okay, released in 2022.