Veteran stage and screen actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson launched her illustrious career when she portrayed the Lady in Red in the stage version of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” in a national tour and then at the Alliance Theatre Co. in Atlanta. She continued to hone her craft honed her craft in several plays for the New York Shakespeare Festival. LaTanya recently received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Spelman College earlier this year and she is the wife of acclaimed actor Samuel Jackson.
