Lynn Whitfield
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
104
Gender
Female
Birthday
1953-02-15 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Lynn Whitfield
Biography
Lynn Whitfield (née Smith; born February 15, 1953) is an American actress. She began her acting career in television and theatre before progressing to supporting roles in film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her breakout performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical film The Josephine Baker Story (1991). In the 1990s, Whitfield played leading roles in a number of made-for-television movies and had several starring roles in theatrical films, including A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996), Gone Fishin' (1997), Eve's Bayou (1997), Stepmom (1998), Head of State (2003), Madea's Family Reunion (2006), and The Women (2008). Whitfield also starred in a number of movies in the 2000s and 2010s. From 2016 to 2020, she starred as Lady Mae Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network dramatic series Greenleaf, for which she won critical acclaim and garnered two NAACP Image Awards and a Gracie Award. She later appeared in the films Nappily Ever After (2018), Vacation Friends (2021), and The Retirement Plan (2023). Whitfield has won a total of seven NAACP Image Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynn Whitfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Resident
Without a Trace
Sherri
Miami Vice
Golden Globe Awards
The Chi
Strong Medicine
How to Get Away with Murder
Matlock
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
The Tyra Banks Show
Touched by an Angel
Tamron Hall
St. Elsewhere
Martin
Matt Houston
Boston Public
Cagney & Lacey
St. Denis Medical
Greenleaf
Shark
FlashForward
Fatal Attraction
Stepmom
Albany Road
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Eyes of Wakanda
The Women
The Rebound
Jaws: The Revenge
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Chasing Life
Promised Land
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Lonely Boy
Solace
Dead Aim
Battlefield America
The Retirement Plan
Doctor Detroit
Silverado
Espionage Tonight
Help
Love Songs
John Henry
Gone Fishin'
All Things Fall Apart
The Josephine Baker Story
Vacation Friends
The Wedding
The George McKenna Story
The Cheetah Girls 2
Tall Tales & Legends
Lap Dance
Trauma Center
Snoops
We Need a Little Christmas
The Cheetah Girls
Confessions
Nappily Ever After
The Dempsey Sisters
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
The Cosby Mysteries
Madea's Family Reunion
Head of State
My Other Mother
PoliWood
The Women of Brewster Place
In the Army Now
The Slugger's Wife
Tales from the Hood 3
And Then There Was You
Woman in Motion
Act Like You Love Me
Somebody's Child
A Time for Dancing
Deep in My Heart
State of Emergency
King's Faith
Prayer Never Fails
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
HeartBeat
The Last Letter
Taking the Heat
A Girl Thing
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
The Color of Courage
30 Days in Atlanta
Eve's Bayou
Stompin' at the Savoy
Saturday Night Special
Kings of the Evening
The Women of Brewster Place
The Planet of Junior Brown
Zora is My Name!
The Redemption of a Dog
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Mama, I Want to Sing!
The Ugly Duckling
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
24 Hour Love
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Sophie and the Moonhanger
