Jackie Richardson
Born: 1947-01-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jackie Richardson CM (born January 4, 1947) is a Canadian singer and actress. She is known for her screen roles in Turning to Stone, The Gospel According to the Blues, The Doodlebops, and Sins of the Father. She is also known for her appearance on the YTV show Catwalk where she played the grandmother to Atlas.
Filmography
2025
- Fake Yourself a Merry Little Christmas as Bernice Davis
2024
- Don't Mess with Grandma as Granna
- Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul as Jackie Richardson
2021
- Pretty Hard Cases as Maureen Gray
- Autour de Minuit – Un cabaret historique as Self
2014
- Dear Viola as Rennie Jasper
2009
- Majority Rules! as Mme DeMarco
2005
- The Doodlebops as Jazzmin
2004
- This Is Wonderland as Lucia Smith
- Welcome to Mooseport as Martha
2003
- Big Spender as Sally McNeal
2002
- Monk as Wendy Maas
- Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye as Mrs. Peterson / Landlord
- Street Time as Cleo
2001
- Doc as Shawn's Grandma
- Further Tales of the City as Emma Ravenel
- Bojangles as Bedella
- They Call Me Sirr as Grams
- On Their Knees as Mother
2000
- Soul Food as Joan
- The Miracle Worker as Viney
- Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble as Daphne
1999
- Twice in a Lifetime as Loretta
- A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story as Transplant Co-Ordinator
- Woman Wanted as Lydia
- Happy Face Murders as Judge Hoyle
- Love Letters as Ella
- A Holiday Romance as Bea Buskins
- Free of Eden as Ola
1998
- The Famous Jett Jackson
- More Tales of the City as Emma
- Mr. Music as Rhonda Grace
1997
- Critical Care as Mrs. Steckler
- Color of Justice as Judge Winslow
- Music: A Family Tradition as Self
1996
- Extreme Measures as Triphase Nurse
- Maximum Risk as Large Woman
- Harriet the Spy as Janie's Mother
- Bogus as Babysitter
- Her Desperate Choice as Frances
- Under The Piano as Mrs. Syms
1994
- Due South
- Getting Gotti as Juror No. 1
- Another Woman as Anna
- Car 54, Where Are You? as Madam
- The Biggest Little Ticket as Self
1993
1992
- Catwalk as Aunt Ellen
- The Broken Cord as Black Mother
1991
- The Hidden Room as Black Woman
- Hammerman as (voice)
1989
- Glory! Glory! as Bessie
- Straight Line as Aunt Martha
1988
- War of the Worlds as Blanche
- T and T as Aunt Martha Robinson
- Switching Channels as Abigail
1987
- 3 Men and a Baby as Edna
- Dreams Beyond Memory as Nurse
1986
1985
- Turning to Stone as Dunky