Jen Richards is a transgender actor and writer who has won a Gotham Film Award. She is best known as Mrs. Fletcher’s Margo Fairchild. She also campaigns for gender equality and the transgender community. In 2019, she starred as Laura Stanley in MK Ultra, a drama thriller.

What is the Net Worth of Jen Richards?

Jen Richards has a quick net worth of $1 million because to her acting and writing careers. Her salary as an actor ranges from $19k to $208k. Aside from that, she earns between $27,000 to $937,000 as a writer. She also generates money from her television series production work.

Early Life and Education

She was born in Mississippi, North Carolina, on January 30, 1976. Her ethnicity is British-Germanic. She has kept her father and mother’s identities a secret until now. On the 24th of July 2017, she was, however, enjoying the birthday of her younger brother. Jen earned an Honors in Arts with a Philosophy degree from Shimer College in Chicago, Illinois. She went on to Oxford University after that.

Professional Life and Career

– Jen Richards began her career as the manager and director of the Eighth Blackbird music group. She worked there till 2015.

-As a waitress in the 2013 TV series #Hashtag: The Series, she had her debut appearance in front of the camera.

– After the series, she played Violet in the series Her Story. The comedic drama is based on trans and queer women’s lives. She was also the show’s producer. The series was well-received by both critics and spectators. The series proved to be a watershed moment in her acting career.

– Following the series, she appeared in a number of other shows such as Two Sentence Horror Stories, Better Things, and Blindspot.

– However, with her most recent series, Mrs. Fletcer, she has made a different kind of impression on viewers who were enthralled by the tale and her acting. The series is a film adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel. Margo Fairchild, a single mother, is the character she plays in the series.

— In addition to performing, she is a writer who has written for the television shows Her Story, More Than T, and Threads.

Upcoming Projects

Jen is currently filming for the short film The Stronger. She will play Bee in the short and will share the screen alongside Caroline Whitney Smith. She is also working on two other projects, Gossamer Folds and In Hollywoodland, in addition to the short. Both of them are in the post-production stage.

 

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Awards and Achivements

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

Suffer Due to Louis C.K’s Sexual Misconducts

The sexual harassment incident involving Louis C.K. garnered a lot of news in the media in 2017. At the time, the filmmaker was working on TBS’s animated series The Cops. Jen was set to lend her voice to a trans character in the series. However, the show was canceled after he admitted to doing sexual acts in front of a large number of women. She expressed her disappointment at the matter by tweeting that a transgender portrayal had to suffer as a result of Louis’ actions.

Body Stats and Social Media

Jen Richards is a brunette with brown eyes. Her Twitter status stated that she is nearly 5 feet and 9 inches tall and weighs a healthy amount. Jen has 25.3k Instagram followers, 10.3k Facebook fans, and 53.7k Twitter followers. Nithya Raman, Patrick Strudwick, and Lauren Hough are among the people she follows on Twitter. She also has a YouTube account with 1.85k subscribers and 87.9k views, which she started herself.

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