LaTanya Richardson is a popular actress of American descent who has gained fame thanks to such films as "Authority", "Star of the Sheriff", "Servants of the Law", etc. Her peculiarity is not in the main roles, which she rarely gets, but as projects in which she is removed. In the article we will get acquainted with the most popular of them.
Biography
LaTanya was born in 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1971 she graduated from the local humanitarian Spelman College - one of the educational institutions intended for black women. In 1974, she met with aspiring actor Samuel L. Jackson, their relationship lasted for six years. In 1980, LaTanya Richardson and Samuel L. Jackson got married, and two years later they had a daughter, Zoe Jackson, a producer of films and television programs.
Authority of Lorenzo
LaTanya appeared on television in 1989, when she got the opportunity to play Doris Gilbert in one episode of the ABC multi-part action movie "A Man named" Hawk "." And a year later she played a minor character in nine episodes of the documentary mini-series Civil War.
In 1991, LaTanya Richardson played the tiny role of social worker in Joseph B. Vazquez’s comedy drama, Hanging Out with Her Own, and tried on the image of Judge Smith in Rod Daniel’s comedy film Domoopor. Then, together with Katie Bates, the actress starred in John Evenett's comedy drama "Fried Green Tomatoes," based on the book of American actress and writer Fanny Flag. Got a small role in the crime film Ernest R. Dickerson "Authority" (1991) with Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps in the lead roles. And the role of nurse Ruth performed in George Miller's dramatic film "Lorenzo Oil" (1992).
Isaiah Star
In 1993, LaTanya Richardson starred in Nora Efron's commercially successful romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle. A year later, she played Dr. Gina Mendez in the melodrama Luis Mandoki "When a man loves a woman." She appeared in 1995 as Carolyn Jones, a minor character, in the drama of Isaiah by Stephen Gyllenhaal. I tried on the image of Sergeant Priscilla Worf in the mystical western of John Sales, “The Sheriff's Star” (1996). And she played the supporting role in Alan Wayne’s comedy drama “Julian Poe”, in the center of the plot of which is a man without a future who comes to a small town to die, but becomes a local celebrity when residents learn about his plan.
In the role of the US Marshall , Savannah Cooper, LaTanya Richardson performed in the crime thriller of Stuart Baird, “Servants of the Law” (1998). Together with Holly Berry, in 1999, she joined the cast of Martha Coolidge's television film “Meet Dorothy Dendridge”. Melinda Donovan, the prison guard, played in Mike Rouba's drama Beyond the High Walls (2001). And in the role of one of the main characters appeared in the drama of John Kent Harrison's "Wide Water" (2006).
Clouding the truth
In 2006, Joe Roth's thriller Reverse Side of the Truth was released, a film with LaTanya Richardson that addresses the theme of racism. A year later, she got the opportunity to play one of the key characters in Christine Swanson's "Everything About Us" melodrama. And she played the role of Mrs. Thompson in Jerry Lamot’s television drama “Clouding the Mind,” based on real events involving a major blackout in different parts of the United States in August 2003.
Recently, the actress often got roles in multi-part projects. She played Lieutenant Dee Anne Carver, the strict boss and adoptive mother of a girl whose father committed suicide, in the fifth season of CBS's police drama Blue Blood (2010 - ...). She starred as Mom Mabel, the leader of one of Harlem's criminal gangs. She also starred in one episode of the Netflix superhero action movie Luke Cage (2016 - ...). In addition, there is information about the release in 2018 of the drama of Clark Johnson Juanita, in which the actress will play one of the main characters.