LaTanya Richardson Jackson

About LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Who is it?: Actress, Director, Soundtrack
Birth Day: October 21, 1949
Birth Place:  Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Birth Sign: Scorpio
Other names: LaTanya Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Occupation: Actress, producer
Years active: 1976–present
Spouse(s): Samuel L. Jackson (m. 1980)
Children: 1

LaTanya Richardson Jackson Net Worth

LaTanya Richardson Jackson was born on October 21, 1949 in  Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is Actress, Director, Soundtrack. She graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1971. While a student at Spelman (an all-female institution), she met Samuel L. Jackson, who was a student at Morehouse College (the all-male institution affiliated with Spelman), who would later become her husband. She and Jackson have one daughter named Zoe.
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💰LaTanya Richardson Jackson Net worth: $16 Million

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Biography/Timeline

1974

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 in 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.”

1991

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.

2003

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.

2014

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.