Jen Richards

Jen Richards: Biography in Details

Who is Jen Richards?

Jen Richards is a Gotham Flim Award-winning transgender actress and writer. She is renowned as the Margo Fairchild of HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher. 

Also, she advocates for the transgender community and gender equality.

Last, in 2019, she appeared as Laura Stanley in the Drama Thriller MK Ultra. 

Upcoming Projects

As of now, Jen Richards is filming for the short movie, The Stronger. In the short, she will be appearing as Bee and sharing the screen with Caroline Whitney Smith.

Apart from the short, she is working on two other projects that include Gossamer Folds and In Hollywoodland. Both of them are in the verse of post-production.

Jen Richards- Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity

Jen Richards was born on the 30th of January 1976 in Mississippi, North Carolina. She is of British-Germanic ethnicity.

To date, she has not disclosed information about her father and mother.

However, she was celebrating the birthday of her younger brother on the 24th of July 2017.

Richards’ Education

Jen graduated from Shimer College in Chicago, Illinois with Honors in Arts with a major in Philosophy. Later, she joined Oxford University.

Jen Richards- Professional Life, Career

– Jen Richards started her career as the manager and director for the music group, Eighth Blackbird. She continued the job till 2015.

-In 2013, she made her first appearance in the TV series #Hashtag: The Series as a waitress.

– Following the series, she appeared in the series, Her Story as Violet. The comedy-drama is based on the life of trans and queer women.

She was also the producer of the show. The series was highly appreciated by viewers and critics. The series turned out to be a milestone in her acting career.

– After the series, she made an appearance in many series including Two Sentence Horror Stories, Better Things, and Blindspot. 

– However, With her latest series Mrs. Fletcer, she has created a different type of impact on the viewers who became mesmerized by the story and her performance.

The series is the film adaption of the novel by Tom Perrotta. In the series, she is portraying the character of a single mother, Margo Fairchild.

– Apart from the acting, she is also a writer who has contributed her script for the series Her Story, More than T, and Threads. 

Jen Richards’ Awards, Nomination

• 2016- Gotham Independent Film Award for Her Story.
• 2020- Queerty for Mrs. Fletcher.
• 2018- Nominated for IIFC Award

Jen Richards’ Net Worth, Salary

Through Jen Richards’s career as an actress and writer, she has made a hasty net worth of $1 million.

Her earnings as an actress are in the range of $19k to $208k. Apart from that, her income as a writer is in the range of $27k to $93k.

Besides that, she also earns through her production works in TV series.

Suffer Due to Louis C.K’s Sexual Misconducts

In 2017, the sexual harassment scandal of Louis C.K created a huge buzz in the media. At the time, the filmmaker was producing the animated series named The Cops for TBS.

In the series, Jen was going to contribute her voice to a trans character of the series. However, the channel suspended the series as he admitted to performing sexual activities in front of numerous women.

In the matter, she twitted that she is disappointed as a transgender representation had to suffer for Louis’ activities.

Body Measurement: Height, Weight

Jen Richards is a brown-eyed brunette. Through her Twitter status, she revealed that her height is almost 5 feet and 9 inches and has a decent weight.

Social Media Presence

Jen Richards has 25.3k followers on Instagram, 10.3k on Facebook, and 53.7k on Twitter.

On Twitter, she is following the personalities like Nithya Raman, Patrick Strudwick, and Lauren Hough.

She also has a self-titled YouTube channel with 1.85k subscribers and 87.9k views.

Trivia

• She came as transgender at the age of 36.
• She loves travelling and exploring new places.

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