Lynn Whitfield profile
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Lynn Whitfield

15th February 1953 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Acting

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.

69 Movies 38 TV Shows 111 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Strung poster
Strung 18th June 2026 as Audra Jelani
Solace poster
Solace 23rd September 2018 as Irene
Stepmom poster
Stepmom 25th December 1998 as Dr. P. Sweikert
Dead Aim poster
Dead Aim 2nd January 1987 as Sheila Freeman
Sherri poster
Sherri 12th September 2022 as Self - Guest
Steve poster
Steve 5th September 2017 as Self
Shark poster
Shark 21st September 2006 as Anita Astin
Snoops poster
Snoops 22nd September 1989 as Denise Kendall