LaTanya Richardson

LaTanya Richardson
Samuel L. Jackson and Latanya Richardson during a tour of Naval Station Pearl Harbor.
Born	LaTanya Richardson (1949-10-21) October 21, 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, US
Other names	LaTanya Jackson
Spouse(s)	Samuel L. Jackson (m. 1980)
Children	Zoe Jackson

LaTanya Richardson (born October 21, 1949), often listed as LaTanya Richardson Jackson, is an American actress and producer. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia. While a student at Atlanta's Spelman College (the second oldest college for black women in the world) 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, 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.”

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 villain Paulina Pritchett, a character who gets off on pointing out the sins of others while totally disregarding her own. 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.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Hangin' with the Homeboys	Caseworker
1991	The Super	Judge Smith
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Janeen
1992	Juice	Steel's Mother
1992	Malcolm X	Lorraine
1992	Lorenzo's Oil	Nurse Ruth
1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Harriet
1994	The Last Laugh	Elaine	Short film
1994	When a Man Loves a Woman	Dr. Gina Mendez
1995	Losing Isaiah	Caroline Jones
1996	Lone Star	Priscilla Worth
1997	Loved	Attorney Rose Jackson
1997	Julian Po	Darlene
1998	U.S. Marshals	Deputy Marshal Savannah Cooper
1998	Secrets		Short film
2003	The Fighting Temptations	Paulina Pritchett
2006	Freedomland	Marie
2007	All About Us	Cousin Bernice
2007	Blackout	Mrs. Thompson
2009	Mother and Child	Carol

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	A Man Called Hawk	Doris Gilbert	Episode: "Life After Death"
1991	Law & Order	Lorraine	Episode: "Life Choice"
1992	Law & Order	Anne Houston	Episode: "Sisters of Mercy"
1992	The Nightman	Emily	TV film
1992	Frannie's Turn	Vivian	Episodes: "Pilot", "Frannie and the Kitchen Sink"
1992	One Life to Live	Rodi	TV series
1993	Civil Wars		Episode: "Hit the Road, Jack"
1993	Shameful Secrets	Louise Levy	TV film
1993	Cheers	Moderator	Episode: "Woody Gets an Election"
1994	Midnight Run for Your Life	Det. Dixon	TV film
1994	Party of Five	Jane Gideon	Episode: "Private Lives"
1994	Earth 2	Alex Wentworth	Episode: "A Memory Play"
1995	Chicago Hope	Mrs. Parnett	Episode: "Cutting Edges"
1995	NYPD Blue	Sister Cecilia	Episode: "Heavin' Can Wait"
1996	The Deliverance of Elaine	Edna	TV film
1997	Homicide: Life on the Street	Lynette Thompson	Episode: "Betrayal"
1998	Any Day Now	Mrs. Walker	Episode: "Call Him Johnny"
1998	Ally McBeal	Attorney Yvette Rose	Episode: "Story of Love"
1999	Ally McBeal	Attorney Yvette Rose	Episode: "Let's Dance"
1999	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Auntie	TV film
1999	Judging Amy	Lena Railsback	Episode: "Pilot"
1999	Once and Again	Counselor	Episode: "Boy Meets Girl"
2000	Hairstory		TV film
2001	Within These Walls	Melinda Donovan	TV film
2001-2002	100 Centre Street	Atallah Sims	Recurring role (8 episodes)
2003	Boston Public	Sheila	Episode: "Chapter 62"
2011	Harry's Law	Noreen	Episode: "In the Ghetto"
2012	Damages	Judge Jaclynn Ellis	Episode: "You Want to End This Once and for All?"
2013	The Watsons Go to Birmingham	Grandma Sands	TV film
2014	Blue Bloods	Lt. Dee Ann Carver	Recurring role, Season 5
2015	Show Me a Hero	Norma O’Neal	TV miniseries

External links

• LaTanya Richardson at the Internet Movie Database
• LaTanya Richardson at the Internet Broadway Database