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
Golden Globe Awards
The Resident
Without a Trace
Miami Vice
How to Get Away with Murder
Strong Medicine
Matlock
St. Elsewhere
Sherri
Boston Public
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Touched by an Angel
The Chi
Tamron Hall
The Tyra Banks Show
Martin
Battlefield America
Shark
Cagney & Lacey
FlashForward
Matt Houston
Greenleaf
St. Denis Medical
Chasing Life
Lap Dance
Eyes of Wakanda
Silverado
Fatal Attraction
Solace
Stepmom
Tall Tales & Legends
Doctor Detroit
Promised Land
Trauma Center
The Women
Snoops
Deep in My Heart
The Planet of Junior Brown
Love Songs
Vacation Friends
HeartBeat
The Retirement Plan
Mama, I Want to Sing!
Jaws: The Revenge
The Rebound
The Cheetah Girls
Zora is My Name!
Gone Fishin'
The Ugly Duckling
Madea's Family Reunion
Head of State
King's Faith
Stompin' at the Savoy
Nappily Ever After
The Cosby Mysteries
Eve's Bayou
In the Army Now
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
My Other Mother
The Cheetah Girls 2
The Women of Brewster Place
Saturday Night Special
A Girl Thing
All Things Fall Apart
Dead Aim
The Wedding
PoliWood
Confessions
The Women of Brewster Place
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Tales from the Hood 3
The Slugger's Wife
Espionage Tonight
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
State of Emergency
Taking the Heat
Help
And Then There Was You
The George McKenna Story
30 Days in Atlanta
Albany Road
John Henry
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
The Last Letter
Prayer Never Fails
Lonely Boy
The Josephine Baker Story
Act Like You Love Me
A Time for Dancing
The Color of Courage
We Need a Little Christmas
The Redemption of a Dog
Woman in Motion
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
The Dempsey Sisters
Somebody's Child
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
24 Hour Love
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
Sophie and the Moonhanger
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Kings of the Evening
