LaTanya Richardson Jackson

LaTanya Richardson Jackson earned a 2025 Tony Award nomination for starring as Claudine Jasper in Purpose on Broadway. Other Broadway acting credits include Joe Turner's Come and Gone, A Raisin in the Sun, and To Kill a Mockingbird. In 2022, she made her Broadway directing debut with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, starring her husband, Samuel L. Jackson.

Her film credits include Fried Green Tomatoes, Malcolm X, Sleepless in Seattle, When a Man Loves a Woman, and The Fighting Temptations.