Jackie Richardson

Jackie Richardson

Born: January 4, 1947
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.

Movies for Jackie Richardson...

Autour de Minuit – Un cabaret historique
Title: Autour de Minuit – Un cabaret historique
Released: November 20, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Overlord and the Underwoods
Character: Judge D. Redd
Released: October 29, 2021
Type: TV
A typical North American family's lives change drastically when a distant relative moves in from another galaxy - Overlord, the 2nd-most wanted villain in the universe.
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Title: Pretty Hard Cases
Character: Maureen Gray
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Lockdown
Character: Luke's Grandma
Released: June 26, 2020
Type: TV
Lockdown is an event series that follows a group of bored quarantined teens working together online to solve a mystery involving one of their neighbors - a mystery which ultimately places them all in danger.
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Title: Hey Lady!
Character: Rosie
Released: January 14, 2020
Type: TV
Nothing is safe when fearlessly off-the-charts senior citizen Lady and her chain-smoking best friend embark on a rampage of urban vengeance, upturning everything in their path.
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Dear Viola
Title: Dear Viola
Character: Rennie Jasper
Released: March 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Katie, a shy newspaper accountant submits a reply to a "Dear Viola" letter to the editor that she works for, anonymously. She has a real knack for writing to people and getting to the heart of the matter. Soon, she takes over the newspaper's advice column and falls in love with one of her correspondents. The whole town becomes involved in the romantics.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Released: July 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Two sisters, no love lives. Both end up dating the same man, and inviting him to meet the family on December 17th. He doesn’t know there are two sisters or that he committed to two different dates on the same day.
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The Gospel According to the Blues
Title: The Gospel According to the Blues
Released: June 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: En direct de l'univers
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Majority Rules!
Character: Mme DeMarco
Released: September 10, 2009
Type: TV
Majority Rules! is a Canadian tween comedy series which first aired on Teletoon in 2009. The series is also dubbed Votez Becky! for the French title. The production company Entertainment One began filming for the first season on January 12, 2009. The show had the distinction of being the first regular program on Teletoon, an animation channel, to be almost exclusively live-action.
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Title: The Doodlebops
Character: Jazzmin
Released: April 11, 2005
Type: TV
The Doodlebops' characters are members of a children's band, The creators of The Doodlebops are Cookie Jar executive Michael Hirsh and musical director Carl Lenox. Jamie Waese is the producer and director of the TV series. David Connolly is the choreographer. Andrea Nevitt is the Line Producer. Gord McLennan is the Technical Producer. Ian Harvey is the Senior Editor.
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Title: Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
Character: Mrs. Peterson / Landlord
Released: October 13, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
Character: Mrs. Alice Dotson
Released: October 13, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Monk
Character: Wendy Maas
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Street Time
Released: June 23, 2002
Type: TV
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.
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They Call Me Sirr
Title: They Call Me Sirr
Character: Grams
Released: November 1, 2001
Type: Movie
An inspirational story that celebrates the grit, perseverance and talent of Sirr Parker, the star footballer of Locke High School who then went on to play for San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals.
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On Their Knees
Title: On Their Knees
Character: Mother
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not change that, but it will give them the opportunity to laugh and learn.
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Title: Further Tales of the City
Character: Emma Ravenel
Released: May 6, 2001
Type: TV
Residents of 28 Barbary Lane continue to navigate human life, flawed love, and blind hope in 1980's San Francisco.
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Title: Doc
Released: March 11, 2001
Type: TV
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.
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Bojangles
Title: Bojangles
Character: Bedella
Released: February 4, 2001
Type: Movie
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.
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Title: Soul Food
Character: Joan
Released: June 28, 2000
Type: TV
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.
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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Title: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Character: Daphne
Released: April 23, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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A Holiday Romance
Title: A Holiday Romance
Character: Bea Buskins
Released: December 8, 1999
Type: Movie
A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.
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A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
Title: A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
Character: Transplant Co-Ordinator
Released: November 21, 1999
Type: Movie
All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school team, his grandmother's encouragement and coaching get him a second chance at that dream. He works hard and becomes so good his coach believes he has a shot at making a top-ranked college team. But now Daniel faces a heart-wrenching choice that could force him to forever give up his dream.
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Happy Face Murders
Title: Happy Face Murders
Character: Judge Hoyle
Released: September 5, 1999
Type: Movie
An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
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Title: Twice in a Lifetime
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: TV
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Lydia
Released: August 14, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Ella
Released: May 12, 1999
Type: Movie
An ambitious U.S. Senator reflects back on his life after the death of a woman whom he loved and kept in contact with only through correspondence.
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Title: The Famous Jett Jackson
Released: October 25, 1998
Type: TV
A boy named Jett Jackson plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone.
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Title: More Tales of the City
Character: Emma
Released: June 7, 1998
Type: TV
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.
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Mr. Music
Title: Mr. Music
Character: Rhonda Grace
Released: March 14, 1998
Type: Movie
A high school student is given the opportunity to become a music executive.
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Critical Care
Title: Critical Care
Character: Mrs. Steckler
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
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?
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Music: A Family Tradition
Title: Music: A Family Tradition
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 1997
Type: Movie
A musical documentary that travels across Canada and looks at four extraordinary Black Canadian families.
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Under The Piano
Title: Under The Piano
Character: Mrs. Syms
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Extreme Measures
Title: Extreme Measures
Character: Triphase Nurse
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Her Desperate Choice
Title: Her Desperate Choice
Character: Frances
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
Despite allegations of child sexual abuse against Jody's ex-husband Marcus, the court orders joint custody of their daughter Samantha. Jody faces a choice of turning Samantha over to Marcus or taking her on the run and risk kidnapping charges. Pursued by both the FBI and a private detective, Jody and Samantha are hunted, fleeing from town to town with the help of an underground network set up to help women and children escape from abuse. Based on a true story. 
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Maximum Risk
Title: Maximum Risk
Character: Large Woman
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Bogus
Title: Bogus
Character: Babysitter
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Harriet the Spy
Title: Harriet the Spy
Character: Janie's Mother
Released: July 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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?
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Another Woman
Title: Another Woman
Character: Anna
Released: October 2, 1994
Type: Movie
After Lisa Temple is brutally attacked and suffers from amnesia, it seems her bitter character has changed for the better, which causes her estranged husband Paul to have second thoughts about leaving her. As she rebuilds her life, Lisa and Paul fall in love again. However; there is danger lurking and one last angry memory waiting to surface. Will their love survive?
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Title: Due South
Character: Receptionist
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Due South
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
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.
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Getting Gotti
Title: Getting Gotti
Character: Juror No. 1
Released: May 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Though she grew up in the same neighborhood with him, the new Assistant U.S. Attorney is determined to prosecute Mafia boss John Gotti. Uncooperative FBI agents and bureaucrats will not deter the driven young prosecutor as her quest culminates in the memorable and controversial trial of the "Dapper Don."
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The Biggest Little Ticket
Title: The Biggest Little Ticket
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This one-hour children's television special is the story of a young girl who slips into an enchanted world of trolls and dragons and finds herself on stage in a magic theatre during a performance by some of the biggest names in children's entertainment: Robert Munsch, Fred Penner and Rockapella.
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Title: Tales of the City
Released: September 28, 1993
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Catwalk
Character: Aunt Ellen
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: TV
Six twenty-something form a pop band named Catwalk.
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The Broken Cord
Title: The Broken Cord
Character: Black Mother
Released: February 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American adopted son is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and complicates his life with the woman who becomes his wife.
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Title: Hammerman
Released: September 7, 1991
Type: TV
Set before his pyrotechnic rise to stardom, (M.C.) Hammer is still Stanley Kirk Burrell, helping kids at the local community center and dreaming of making it big as a rap music star. When some "magic dancing shoes" step into his life, Stanley is transformed into HAMMERMAN - the first musical superhero!
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Grey on This Side Black on the Other
Title: Grey on This Side Black on the Other
Released: April 10, 1990
Type: Movie
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Straight Line
Title: Straight Line
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Blanche
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
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.
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Switching Channels
Title: Switching Channels
Character: Abigail
Released: March 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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Title: T and T
Character: Aunt Martha Robinson
Released: January 11, 1988
Type: TV
T. and T. is a Canadian-produced television series, in production from 1987 to 1990. The series premiered in first-run syndication in January 1988, later moving to new episodes on the Family Channel in 1990. It was a starring vehicle for Mr. T, after the cancellation of The A-Team in 1986. The series’ theme song was performed by Merry Clayton. The opening voice-over set-up the premise:
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Title: Adderly
Released: September 24, 1986
Type: TV
Adderly is a Canadian television drama series, first aired in 1986.
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Turning to Stone
Title: Turning to Stone
Character: Dunky
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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.