Lynn Whitfield
Acting
- Born:
- 1953-02-15
- Place of birth:
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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
Filmography
Strung
Eyes of Wakanda
Albany Road
St. Denis Medical
The Retirement Plan
We Need a Little Christmas
Sherri
Vacation Friends
Woman in Motion
Tales from the Hood 3
The Tamron Hall Show
Solace
Nappily Ever After
The Resident
The Chi
Espionage Tonight
Steve
Greenleaf
Prayer Never Fails
Fear Files
Lap Dance
30 Days in Atlanta
The Fright Night Files
How to Get Away with Murder
My Other Mother
Chasing Life
The Ugly Duckling
The Last Letter
The Dempsey Sisters
And Then There Was You
Act Like You Love Me
Fatal Attraction
King's Faith
24 Hour Love
Lonely Boy
The Redemption of a Dog
Somebody's Child
Battlefield America
All Things Fall Apart
Mama, I Want to Sing!
FlashForward
The Rebound
PoliWood
The Women
Kings of the Evening
Shark
The Cheetah Girls 2
Confessions
Madea's Family Reunion
The Tyra Banks Show
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
The Cheetah Girls
Head of State
Without a Trace
A Time for Dancing
A Girl Thing
Boston Public
Strong Medicine
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Love Songs
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Deep in My Heart
The Color of Courage
Stepmom
The Wedding
Eve's Bayou
The Planet of Junior Brown
Gone Fishin'
Promised Land
Saturday Night Special
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Sophie and the Moonhanger
The Cosby Mysteries
Touched by an Angel
In the Army Now
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
State of Emergency
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Taking the Heat
Martin
Stompin' at the Savoy
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
The Josephine Baker Story
Zora is My Name!
Snoops
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place
The George McKenna Story
HeartBeat
Jaws: The Revenge
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Dead Aim
John Henry
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Matlock
Tall Tales & Legends
Silverado
The Slugger's Wife
Miami Vice
Trauma Center
Doctor Detroit
St. Elsewhere
Matt Houston
Cagney & Lacey
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
American Playhouse
Hill Street Blues
Golden Globe Awards
The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen