The daughter of a Charlie’s Angels star and an award-winning cinematographer, she has spent her life avoiding the attention her family made a living from.
Spencer Margaret Richmond grew up around fame but never went looking for it. The daughter of Charlie’s Angels star Jaclyn Smith and the British cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, she has spent most of her adult life out of the public eye, in a family whose careers were built on being seen. She steps forward only now and then, almost always for her mother or her daughter.
| Quick facts | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Spencer Margaret Richmond |
| Born | December 4, 1985, Los Angeles, California |
| Parents | Jaclyn Smith and Anthony B. Richmond |
| Brother | Gaston Richmond |
| Spouse | Fran Kranz (married 2015, divorced 2021) |
| Children | One daughter, Bea (born 2016) |
| Known for | Co-designing the Spencer by Jaclyn Smith baby line |
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Who is Spencer Margaret Richmond?
She is the second child of actress Jaclyn Smith and cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, born in Los Angeles on December 4, 1985. Her parents married in 1981 and divorced in 1989. Her mother married the surgeon Brad Allen in 1997, and Spencer grew up mainly in Los Angeles.
Her older brother, Gaston Richmond, born in 1982, followed their father into the camera department, working as an assistant on series including SEAL Team and the Party of Five reboot. Her godmother is the actress Kate Jackson, another of the original Charlie’s Angels. Past those few details, little about her early years is on the public record.
A Hollywood family on both sides of the camera
Nearly everyone close to Spencer made a living from the camera, or from deciding what audiences would look at.
Her mother, Jaclyn Smith, played Kelly Garrett on Charlie’s Angels from 1976 to 1981 and was the only original lead to stay for all five seasons. She went on to build one of the longest-running celebrity brands in American retail, designing clothing for Kmart for more than three decades.
Her father has just as strong a reputation behind the lens. Anthony B. Richmond won a BAFTA for his cinematography on Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 thriller Don’t Look Now. In 1969 he was among the camera operators on the Beatles’ Let It Be sessions, including the rooftop concert that Peter Jackson later restored for the 2021 series The Beatles: Get Back. He directed one film, the 1985 drama Dรฉjร Vu, which starred his wife at the time, Jaclyn Smith. In 2024 the British Society of Cinematographers honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jaclyn Smith once told People that when her children were young and saw her on television, they would point and say “there’s Jaclyn Smith,” not “Mom.” That was the household Spencer came from. She is the one who stayed off screen.
Marriage to Fran Kranz
Spencer married the actor Fran Kranz on August 15, 2015. Kranz is known for playing Topher Brink in the science fiction series Dollhouse, with film roles in The Cabin in the Woods and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing. He later wrote and directed Mass, the 2021 drama that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to strong reviews.
The marriage ended quietly. Spencer filed for divorce in 2020, and it was finalized on February 4, 2021. Neither she nor Kranz turned the split into public drama.
Does she have any children?
Spencer has one daughter, Bea, born on September 17, 2016, during her marriage to Kranz. Some accounts add a second child, a daughter named Olivia Rose, but that is wrong. Olivia Rose is her niece, the daughter of her brother Gaston.
The baby clothing line named after her
The one time Spencer drew real attention, her name was on the product. In September 2017, Kmart launched Spencer by Jaclyn Smith, a baby clothing line that Smith designed with her daughter and named after her. The collection was inspired by Bea, born the year before, ran from newborn to twelve months, and sold for between $19.99 and $29.99.
Spencer co-designed the line and gave a short comment when it launched, saying she understood, as a new mother, “the importance of finding the right staples for your baby.” It is one of the few times she has spoken publicly about anything.
There is a quiet contradiction in it. A woman who stays out of view put her own first name on a national brand, and she did it for her mother and her newborn. That says something about where she draws the line between public and private.
What about her net worth?
A figure of around one million dollars circulates online, usually tied to her work as a designer. It is worth treating with caution. None of those estimates name a source, and Spencer has never confirmed a number. Her design work has been a collaboration with her mother rather than a business of her own.
Where is she now?
Spencer is 40 and lives in Los Angeles, where she raises Bea and still designs alongside her mother from time to time. Jaclyn Smith has described her as the calm one in the family, the person who watches and listens rather than fills the room. Recalling a birthday trip the two took to Joshua Tree, Smith told Boca Raton Observer there was “power in her reserve.”
Her father helped shape how the world remembers the Beatles. Her mother turned her own fame into a brand that reached millions of shoppers. Spencer took the opposite path, and the most public thing she ever put her name to was a set of baby clothes she made for her daughter.
