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Known For Acting
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Gender Female
Birthday February 15, 1953 (72 years old)
Place of Birth Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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Lynn Whitfield
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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.
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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.
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| 2025 | Những Người Bảo Hộ Wakanda 1 episode as Older Noni (voice) | |
| 2024 | Albany Road as Paula Henderson | | 2024 | St. Denis Medical 1 episode as Barb | | 2024 | Sherri 2 episodes as Self - Guest | |
| 2023 | Kế Hoạch Hưu Trí as Drisdale | | 2023 | The Chi 12 episodes as Alicia | |
| 2022 | We Need a Little Christmas as Irene | |
| 2021 | Kỳ Nghỉ Thú Vị Cùng Bạn Bè as Suzanne | | 2021 | Woman in Motion as Self | |
| 2020 | Tales from the Hood 3 as Marie Benoît | | 2020 | Tamron Hall 1 episode as Self - Guest | |
| 2019 | The Resident 1 episode as Josephine Okeke | |
| 2018 | Solace as Irene | | 2018 | Nappily Ever After as Paulette Jones | |
| 2017 | Espionage Tonight as Sydney Greenstreet | |
| 2016 | Greenleaf 61 episodes as Lady Mae Greenleaf | | 2016 | Prayer Never Fails as Loral Brown | |
| 2015 | Chasing Life 1 episode as Karen Callahan | |
| 2014 | Lap Dance as Momma Pearl | | 2014 | How to Get Away with Murder 3 episodes as Mary Walker | | 2014 | 30 Days in Atlanta as Clara | | 2014 | My Other Mother as Mary Jo | | 2014 | The Ugly Duckling as Narrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | The Last Letter as Lorraine | | 2013 | The Dempsey Sisters as Olivia Norman | | 2013 | And Then There Was You as Sophia Brent | | 2013 | Act Like You Love Me as Harriett Lofton | | 2013 | Fatal Attraction 8 episodes as Narrator (voice) | | 2013 | King's Faith as Vanessa | | 2013 | 24 Hour Love as Cynthia | | 2013 | Lonely Boy as Dr. Christine Nolan | |
| 2012 | The Redemption of a Dog as Francine | | 2012 | Somebody's Child as Constance | | 2012 | Battlefield America as Ms. Parker | |
| 2011 | All Things Fall Apart as Bee | | 2011 | Mama, I Want to Sing! as Lillian Winter | |
| 2009 | FlashForward 1 episode as Anastasia Markham | | 2009 | Yêu Lần Nữa as Laura Reilly | | 2009 | PoliWood as Self | |
| 2008 | The Women as Glenda Hill | | 2008 | Kings of the Evening as Gracie | |
| 2006 | Shark 1 episode as Anita Astin | | 2006 | The Cheetah Girls 2 as Dorothea Garibaldi | | 2006 | Confessions as Dr. Page | | 2006 | Madea: Gia Đình Hội Tụ as Victoria | | 2006 | The Tyra Banks Show 1 episode | |
| 2004 | Strong Medicine 1 episode as Dr. Marshall | | 2004 | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story as Barbara Becnel | |
| 2003 | The Cheetah Girls as Dorothea Garibaldi | | 2003 | Head of State as Debra Lassiter | |
| 2002 | Without a Trace 6 episodes as Paula Van Doren | | 2002 | A Time for Dancing as Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher | |
| 2001 | Boston Public 3 episodes as Louanna Harper | | 2001 | A Girl Thing 4 episodes as Nia Morgan | |
| 1999 | Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker as Herself | | 1999 | Love Songs as Jean Simpson | | 1999 | Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story as Lori Jackson | | 1999 | Deep in My Heart as Corrine Burrell | | 1999 | The Color of Courage as Minnie McGhee | |
| 1998 | Mẹ Kế as Dr. P. Sweikert | | 1998 | The Wedding as Corinne Coles | |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou as Roz Batiste | | 1997 | The Planet of Junior Brown as Mrs. Brown | | 1997 | Gone Fishin' as Angie | | 1997 | Promised Land 1 episode as Dr. Serena Hall | | 1997 | Touched by an Angel 1 episode as Dr. Serena Hall | | 1997 | Martin 2 episodes as Ellen | |
| 1996 | Saturday Night Special 1 episode | | 1996 | A Thin Line Between Love and Hate as Brandi | | 1996 | Sophie and the Moonhanger as Sophie | |
| 1994 | The Cosby Mysteries 18 episodes | | 1994 | In the Army Now as Sgt. Ladd | | 1994 | Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story as Bobbie Mallory | | 1994 | State of Emergency as Dehlia Johnson | |
| 1993 | Taking the Heat as Carolyn Hunter | |
| 1992 | Stompin' at the Savoy as Esther | | 1992 | Golden Globe Awards 1 episode as Self - Nominee | |
| 1991 | A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story | | 1991 | The Josephine Baker Story as Josephine Baker | |
| 1990 | Matlock 2 episodes as Angela Page | | 1990 | Zora is My Name! | |
| 1989 | Snoops 2 episodes as Denise Kendall | | 1989 | The Women of Brewster Place 2 episodes as Ciel | | 1989 | The Women of Brewster Place as Ciel | |
| 1988 | The George McKenna Story as Bobbie Maxwell | | 1988 | HeartBeat 18 episodes as Dr. Cory Banks | | 1988 | St. Elsewhere 1 episode as Annie Callan | |
| 1987 | Hàm Cá Mập: Báo Thù as Louisa | | 1987 | The Making of Jaws The Revenge as Self | | 1987 | Dead Aim as Sheila Freeman | |
| 1986 | Tall Tales & Legends 1 episode as Pollie Ann | | 1986 | John Henry as Pollie Ann | | 1986 | Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as Johnnie Mae Gibson | |
| 1985 | Miami Vice 1 episode as Odette Ribaud | | 1985 | Bắn Nhanh Thì Sống as Rae | | 1985 | The Slugger's Wife as Tina Alvarado | | 1985 | Cagney & Lacey 2 episodes | |
| 1983 | Matt Houston 1 episode as Val | | 1983 | Trauma Center 1 episode | | 1983 | Doctor Detroit as Thelma Cleland | |
| 1982 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf as Woman in bath | |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues 2 episodes as Jill Thomas 1 episode | |
Production
| 2013 | And Then There Was You … Producer | |
Crew
| 2013 | And Then There Was You … Thanks | |
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