LaTanya Richardson Jackson (born October , ) is an American actress.
She began her career appearing in off-Broadway, before playing
supporting roles on television and film.Richardson has appeared in
films include Fried Green Tomatoes (), Malcolm X (), Sleepless in
Seattle (), When a Man Loves a Woman (), Losing Isaiah (), Lone Star
(), U.S. Marshals (), and The Fighting Temptations (). Her television
credits include Centre Street (â€"), Show Me a Hero (), Luke Cage
(â€"), and Rebel ().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 , she met actor Samuel L. Jackson, then at
all-male Morehouse College, who would later become her husband. She
and Jackson married in , As of , they have been together years
according to Samuel L Jackson's tribute Instagram post. They have one
child, freelance film and TV producer Zoe Jackson, born in . 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."
She began her career appearing in off-Broadway, before playing
supporting roles on television and film.Richardson has appeared in
films include Fried Green Tomatoes (), Malcolm X (), Sleepless in
Seattle (), When a Man Loves a Woman (), Losing Isaiah (), Lone Star
(), U.S. Marshals (), and The Fighting Temptations (). Her television
credits include Centre Street (â€"), Show Me a Hero (), Luke Cage
(â€"), and Rebel ().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 , she met actor Samuel L. Jackson, then at
all-male Morehouse College, who would later become her husband. She
and Jackson married in , As of , they have been together years
according to Samuel L Jackson's tribute Instagram post. They have one
child, freelance film and TV producer Zoe Jackson, born in . 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."
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