Who is it? | Actress & Producer |
Birth Day | October 21, 1949 |
Birth Place | Atlanta, Georgia, United States, United States |
Age | 74 YEARS OLD |
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, a renowned actress and producer in the United States, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in 2024. Throughout her illustrious career, Richardson has accomplished tremendous success, garnering widespread acclaim for her talents in the entertainment industry. With her exceptional acting skills and contributions as a producer, it is no surprise that she has been able to accumulate such a significant amount of wealth. As she continues to make waves in the industry, her net worth is likely to increase, solidifying her status as a prominent figure in the world of film and television.
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.”
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.
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.