LaTanya Richardson, often listed as LaTanya Richardson Jackson, is an American actress and producer. She began her career appearing in off-Broadway, before playing supporting roles on television and film.

Filmography

• 2026Diamond — Elizabeth
• The American Revolution — (voice)
• 2023You Hurt My Feelings — Sylvia
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey — Executive Producer
• The Last Movie Stars — Self, Maude Brink (voice)
• Beyond the Spotlight
• 2019Juanita — Kay-Rita
• Summer Camp Island — Queen Bee (voice)
• 2017Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart — Narrator (voice)
• Marvel's Luke Cage — Mama Mabel, Mama Mabel Stokes
• Show Me a Hero — Norma O'Neal
• 2013The Watsons Go to Birmingham — Grandma Sands
• Harry's Law — Noreen
• Blue Bloods — Lt. Dee Ann Carver
• 2009Mother and Child — Carol
• 2007All About Us — Cousin Bernice
• 2007Blackout — Mrs. Thompson
• Damages — Judge Jaclynn Ellis
• 2006Freedomland — Marie
• 2006The Water Is Wide — Edna
• Criminal Minds — Caroline Lewis
• Grey's Anatomy — Diane Pierce
• 2003The Fighting Temptations — Paulina Pritchett
• 2003Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
• Working Shakespeare
• 100 Centre Street — Atallah Sims
• 2001Within These Walls — Melinda Donovan
• Boston Public — Sheila
• 2000Hairstory — Director
• 1999Introducing Dorothy Dandridge — Auntie
• Judging Amy — Lena Railsback
• Once and Again
• 1998U.S. Marshals — Cooper
• Ally McBeal — Attorney Yvette Rose
• 1997Julian Po
• 1997Loved — Attorney Rose Jackson
• 1996Lone Star — Priscilla Worth
• 1996The Deliverance of Elaine — Edna (as Latanya Richardson)
• 1995Losing Isaiah — Caroline Jones
• Baseball — Various (voice)
• Chicago Hope — Mrs. Parnett
• Earth 2 — Alex Wentworth
• 1994Midnight Run for Your Life — Detective Dixon
• Party of Five — Jane Gideon
• 1994When a Man Loves a Woman — Gina Mendez
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Lynette Thomson
• 1993Shameful Secrets — Louise Levy
• 1993Sleepless in Seattle — Harriet
• Frannie's Turn — Vivian
• 1992Juice — Steel's Mother
• 1992Lorenzo's Oil — Nurse Ruth
• 1992Malcolm X — Lorraine
• 1992The Nightman — Emily
• 1991Fried Green Tomatoes — Janeen
• 1991The Super — Judge Smith
• Law & Order — Lorraine, Anne Houston
• Cheers — Moderator
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Edna Graves
• Frisco King — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2023Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter? — self - archival footage
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• 2010The Black List: Volume Three — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare — Self