Personal Info
Birth date
1947-01-04 (78 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
-
Also known as
-Jackie Richardson
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
Monk
8
Overview:
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.Due South
7.5
Overview:
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.Doc
7.4
Overview:
Doc is a medical drama/family drama with strong Christian undertones starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy, a Montana doctor who takes a job in a New York City medical clinic. It ran from March 11, 2001 to November 28, 2004 on PAX. Although set in New York City, all the episodes were shot in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
7.1
Overview:
Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy – and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious criminals to justice. This remarkable, edge-of-your-seat drama is an inspiring tribute to the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity and achieve great things.War of the Worlds
6.241
Overview:
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.Twice in a Lifetime
5.5
Overview:
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.Maximum Risk
5.8
Overview:
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.Pretty Hard Cases
6.3
Overview:
A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics detective Kelly, who by day are true action heroes in their own particular way: skilled, tough, determined, and ruthless. But by night, they’re both grappling with loneliness, dysfunctional families, screwed-up love lives, and a sense that their professional ambitions may not be totally in line with their personal needs.More Tales of the City
7.5
Overview:
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.Street Time
2.5
Overview:
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.The Famous Jett Jackson
6.9
Overview:
A boy named Jett Jackson plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone.This Is Wonderland
9
Overview:
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.Bogus
5.766
Overview:
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.Dreams Beyond Memory
NYR
Overview:
Memories of a long lost love are rekindled when a young woman resembling that lost love is introduced to an older bachelor.A Holiday Romance
3.25
Overview:
A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.Color of Justice
4.786
Overview:
Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case because it might start a riot. And adding fuel to the fire is a bombastic and vocal black community leader, who's saying that they will not have a fair trial and that they were justified in their actions because they were in fear for their livesTales of the City
8
Overview:
Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane.Soul Food
7
Overview:
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.Harriet the Spy
6.053
Overview:
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
6.6
Overview:
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.Critical Care
6.4
Overview:
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?3 Men and a Baby
6.2
Overview:
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.Music: A Family Tradition
NYR
Overview:
A musical documentary that travels across Canada and looks at four extraordinary Black Canadian families.Under The Piano
5
Overview:
An autistic child growing up in the 1940's and 50's with a mother who is bitter because her fear of success has denied to herself a possible career in opera. This anger translates into an over-protectiveness of her mentally ill daughter, even into the child's adulthood. But a loving sister, herself having an arm that is paralyzed, is a bastion against the limitations imposed by the mother and finally helps her sister to live a more full life.Woman Wanted
5.6
Overview:
After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himself falling for her, his emotionally destructive son, Wendell, also grows attached to Emma, threatening to tear apart the family's already hostile relationship.Turning to Stone
3.5
Overview:
Alison Campbell was sentenced to seven years after trying to smuggle drugs into Canada. This hard-hitting film tells the story of how she survived the prison system,and sacrificed herself to protect her inmates and saved her own sanity.Extreme Measures
6
Overview:
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.Straight Line
2.8
Overview:
Mr. T comes out fighting in Straight Line, an intense, unrelenting action thriller about the sinister mind-control plot of a power-mad man, and the immovable object that won't stop 'til he drops! Mr. T is T.S. (Too Strong) Turner, a "private investigator" called on to seek and destroy the vicious street thugs who are causing chaos all over the city's East End. These Punks are running wild - they are afraid of nothing. The Gang, called "The Future" is a radical clan who want their future all white! When he hears this, Turner sees red, and now he's out for blood! His hell-bent mission: find out who's controlling these kids, and stop them before the terrorism gets out of control! T.S. is armed and ready for a furious fight to the finish.Big Spender
5
Overview:
Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working an a foundation's farm for retired race horses, Eddie signs up and proves his talent with Big Spender, who was found completely run down. He nurses the horse back to health, and convinces Jake Cotter, the man in charge, to try a stunt: train him for an new career in jumping, which is a success when his dedicated race jockey Mel Tennant volunteers to ride him again. If he does really well, he may even get a certificate opening the perspective of a real job, which he desperately needs when grandma dies after having him swear he'll get out: the nightmare alternative is to leave Will lingering in the very home that did Eddie no goodActing
2024Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul as Jackie Richardson
2024Don't Mess with Grandma as Granna
2021Autour de Minuit – Un cabaret historique as Unknown
2021Pretty Hard Cases (4 Episodes) as Maureen Gray
2020Lockdown (3 Episodes) as Luke's Grandma
2020Hey Lady! (8 Episodes) as Rosie
2014Dear Viola as Rennie Jasper
2010Double Wedding as Unknown
2010The Gospel According to the Blues as Unknown
2009Majority Rules! (26 Episodes) as Mme DeMarco
2005The Doodlebops (39 Episodes) as Jazzmin
2004This Is Wonderland (2 Episodes) as Lucia Smith
2003Big Spender as Sally McNeal
2002Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (1, 2 Episode) as Mrs. Peterson / Landlord, Mrs. Alice Dotson
2002Monk (1 Episode) as Wendy Maas
2002Street Time (1 Episode) as Cleo
2001They Call Me Sirr as Grams
2001On Their Knees as Mother
2001Further Tales of the City (4 Episodes) as Emma Ravenel
2001Doc (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001Bojangles as Bedella
2000Soul Food (1 Episode) as Joan
2000Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble as Daphne
1999A Holiday Romance as Bea Buskins
1999A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story as Transplant Co-Ordinator
1999Happy Face Murders as Judge Hoyle
1999Twice in a Lifetime (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999Woman Wanted as Lydia
1999Love Letters as Ella
1999Free of Eden as Ola
1998The Famous Jett Jackson (1 Episode) as Unknown
1998More Tales of the City (3 Episodes) as Emma
1998Mr. Music as Rhonda Grace
1997Critical Care as Mrs. Steckler
1997Color of Justice as Judge Winslow
1997Music: A Family Tradition as Self
1996Under The Piano as Mrs. Syms
1996Extreme Measures as Triphase Nurse
1996Her Desperate Choice as Frances
1996Maximum Risk as Large Woman
1996Bogus as Babysitter
1996Harriet the Spy as Janie's Mother
1994Harlequin: Another Woman as Anna
1994Due South (0, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Receptionist
1994Getting Gotti as Juror No. 1
1994The Biggest Little Ticket as Self
1994Car 54, Where Are You? as Madam
1993Tales of the City as Unknown
1992Catwalk (9 Episodes) as Aunt Ellen
1992The Broken Cord as Black Mother
1991Hammerman (13 Episodes) as (voice)
1990Grey on This Side Black on the Other as Unknown
1989Straight Line as Aunt Martha
1988War of the Worlds (1 Episode) as Blanche
1988Switching Channels as Abigail
1988T and T (24 Episodes) as Aunt Martha Robinson
1987Dreams Beyond Memory as Nurse
19873 Men and a Baby as Edna
1986Adderly (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985Turning to Stone as Dunky