Actor Samuel L. Jackson marries sports channel producer LaTanya Richardson in 1980.
She was born in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1970, while attending Atlanta's Spelman College, she met actor Samuel L. Jackson, who was then attending all-male Morehouse College and would eventually become her husband. In 1980, she married Jackson. Initially, Richardson, a Spelman College graduate, met Jackson while he was a student at Morehouse College. It was the year 1970. It would take them ten years to be married, which occurred on January 14, 1980. Zoe Jackson, their only child, was born in 1982.
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