Lynn Whitfield
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
102
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
Golden Globe Awards
Miami Vice
How to Get Away with Murder
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Touched by an Angel
Strong Medicine
The Tyra Banks Show
Matlock
Tamron Hall
Matt Houston
Boston Public
Martin
Cagney & Lacey
The Chi
Greenleaf
Shark
FlashForward
Fatal Attraction
Chasing Life
St. Denis Medical
Jaws: The Revenge
Eyes of Wakanda
Promised Land
Silverado
Somebody's Child
Lonely Boy
The Dempsey Sisters
Vacation Friends
Tall Tales & Legends
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
The Retirement Plan
We Need a Little Christmas
The Josephine Baker Story
Stepmom
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
Snoops
Gone Fishin'
The Women
Head of State
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Trauma Center
The Rebound
John Henry
Doctor Detroit
Espionage Tonight
State of Emergency
The Women of Brewster Place
My Other Mother
The George McKenna Story
The Cheetah Girls 2
Battlefield America
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
A Girl Thing
Albany Road
Madea's Family Reunion
Dead Aim
HeartBeat
Tales from the Hood 3
Taking the Heat
The Cheetah Girls
Nappily Ever After
The Color of Courage
A Time for Dancing
Prayer Never Fails
PoliWood
All Things Fall Apart
Help
In the Army Now
Woman in Motion
The Cosby Mysteries
The Slugger's Wife
Stompin' at the Savoy
Saturday Night Special
The Wedding
Deep in My Heart
The Planet of Junior Brown
Act Like You Love Me
Lap Dance
24 Hour Love
And Then There Was You
The Redemption of a Dog
The Ugly Duckling
Confessions
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Love Songs
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Solace
The Last Letter
Eve's Bayou
Kings of the Evening
King's Faith
30 Days in Atlanta
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Mama, I Want to Sing!
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Sophie and the Moonhanger
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Zora is My Name!
