Other names LaTanya Jackson Children Zoe Jackson Education Spelman College | Role Actress Name LaTanya Richardson | |
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Full Name LaTanya Richardson Born October 21, 1949 (age 75) ( 1949-10-21 ) Atlanta, Georgia, US Spouse Samuel L. Jackson (m. 1980) Nominations Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play Movies and TV shows Show Me a Hero, US Marshals, The Fighting Temptations, Losing Isaiah, The Watsons Go To Bir Similar People Samuel L Jackson, Zoe Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Kenny Leon, Denzel Washington | ||
Interview with samuel l jackson and latanya richardson jackson
LaTanya Richardson (born October 21, 1949), often listed as LaTanya Richardson Jackson, is an American actress and producer. She began her career appearing in off-Broadway, before playing supporting roles on television and film.
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- Interview with samuel l jackson and latanya richardson jackson
- LaTanya Richardson Jackson On The Taming Of The Shrew BUILD Series
- Personal life
- Career
- References
Richardson has appeared in films include Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), Losing Isaiah (1995), Lone Star (1996), U.S. Marshals (1998), and The Fighting Temptations (2003). Her television credits include Show Me a Hero, Luke Cage, and series regular role on the BET crime drama Rebel.
LaTanya Richardson Jackson On "The Taming Of The Shrew" | BUILD Series
Personal life
She was born in Atlanta, Georgia. While a student at Atlanta's Spelman College (the second oldest college for black women in the US) in 1974, she met actor Samuel L. Jackson, then at all-male Morehouse College, who would later become her husband. She and Jackson married in 1980. They have one child, freelance film and TV producer Zoe Jackson, born 1982. After her daughter's birth, Richardson stopped working regularly, because, she said: “We’d vowed to be an intact revolutionary black family. But it was very, very hard.”
Career
To date, Richardson's biggest role in a motion picture was in the 2003 musical The Fighting Temptations in which she appears as the main antagonist, the hypercritical Paulina Pritchett.
In 2014, Richardson was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her 2013 performance in A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger, a role she took over at the last minute when Diahann Carroll dropped out due to health concerns. This was her second appearance on Broadway after her debut in the 2009 revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
