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Who is Samuel L. Jackson’s child?

Zoe Jackson

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Born: March 28, 1982

Everyone wants to know what it’s like to be Samuel L. Jackson’s child and though Zoe hasn’t given too many interviews, she’s talked about some of the famous people she met in her younger years. She detailed one interesting interaction in a short video for the New York Times in 2012. “I was about three years old. My parents took me to a party. And this kind of Albert Einstein-y looking dude scooped me up and ran away with me,” she recalled. “And I ended up hanging out with this bizarre dude for, like, three hours at this party, and it ended up being Kurt Vonnegut. All I remember about it is this guy having a lot of really interesting, strange jokes. I thought it was cool because I ended up as an adult reading all of these Kurt Vonnegut books and being very excited about it.”

Zoe graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Psychology but found herself in the entertainment industry like her parents. She even had the chance to work with him when she directed the 2013 Funny or Die short called Everything Is Samuel L. Jackson’s Fault. Jackson spoke about his only daughter in a 2009 interview for The Guardian, saying, “Our daughter, Zoe, 27, is like us in that she has a strong will, work ethic and sense of self.”

While Zoe has credits to her name that include an early acting role and multiple credits as a production assistant, the majority of her work has been producing television shows. She may be Samuel L Jackson’s child but Zoe made a name for herself in the reality TV world working as a producer on hit Bravo series like Project Runway, Chopped, Chopped Junior, Top Chef, and Top Chef Amateurs. In 2021, Zoe and the RuPaul’s Drag Race team won the Emmy for Outstanding Competition Program.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson’s wife?

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LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Atlanta native LaTanya Richardson began acting in children’s theater at the age of 15. After high school, she attended Spelman College and continued to perform in plays until she graduated. During this time in the 1970s, she met her future husband and Morehouse College student Sam Jackson. The two performed on stage together with the Morehouse Spelman Players and later moved to New York.

Richardson and Jackson tied the knot in 1980 and two years later, their daughter Zoe was born. After some time off, Richardson returned to acting. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, she has appeared on-screen in both feature films and television series such as Fried Green Tomatoes, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, The Fighting Temptations and Luke Cage. She also shared the screen with Jackson in more than one film including 1995’s Losing Isaiah and 2006’s Freedomland. In 2014, LaTanya Richardson was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in A Raisin in the Sun. She put on the director’s hat for the first time when she helmed the 2022 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson, starring none other than her husband. That same year, the couple also produced The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, a 6-episode series on AppleTV+, starring – you guessed it – Samuel L. Jackson in the title role.

In addition to acting, producing and directing, Richardson is involved in several foundations and charities for medical research, education and the arts. In 1999, she co-founded the nonprofit Samuel L. and LaTanya R. Jackson Foundation. Jackson told The Guardian in 2009, “Coming from a background where we’ve had to fight for our rights, LaTanya and I care very deeply about civil and human rights and feel that it is important to provide an education for the less fortunate and that’s why we recently set up our own charitable foundation.”

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