
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Fake Yourself a Merry Little Christmas as Bernice Davis
2024Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul as Jackie Richardson
2024Don't Mess with Grandma as Granna
2021Autour de Minuit – Un cabaret historique
2021Pretty Hard Cases as Maureen Gray
2020Lockdown as Luke's Grandma
2020Hey Lady! as Rosie
2014Dear Viola as Rennie Jasper
2010Double Wedding
2010The Gospel According to the Blues
2009Majority Rules! as Mme DeMarco
2005The Doodlebops as Jazzmin
2004This Is Wonderland as Lucia Smith
2003Big Spender as Sally McNeal
2002Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye as Mrs. Peterson / Landlord
2002Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye as Mrs. Alice Dotson
2002Monk as Wendy Maas
2002Street Time as Cleo
2001They Call Me Sirr as Grams
2001On Their Knees as Mother
2001Further Tales of the City as Emma Ravenel
2001Doc
2001Bojangles as Bedella
2000Soul Food 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
1999Woman Wanted as Lydia
1999Love Letters as Ella
1999Free of Eden as Ola
1998The Famous Jett Jackson
1998More Tales of the City 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
1994Another Woman as Anna
1994Due South
1994Due South as Receptionist
1994Getting Gotti as Juror No. 1
1994The Biggest Little Ticket as Self
1994Car 54, Where Are You? as Madam
1993Tales of the City
1992Catwalk as Aunt Ellen
1992The Broken Cord as Black Mother
1991Hammerman as (voice)
1990Grey on This Side Black on the Other
1989Straight Line as Aunt Martha
1988War of the Worlds as Blanche
1988Switching Channels as Abigail
1988T and T as Aunt Martha Robinson
1987Dreams Beyond Memory as Nurse
19873 Men and a Baby as Edna
1986Adderly
1985Turning to Stone as Dunky







