Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield (72)

1953-02-15 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

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.

On Movies

  • Albany Road
  • The Retirement Plan
  • We Need a Little Christmas
  • Vacation Friends
  • Tales from the Hood 3
  • Solace
  • Nappily Ever After
  • Espionage Tonight
  • Prayer Never Fails
  • Lap Dance
  • 30 Days in Atlanta
  • My Other Mother
  • The Last Letter
  • The Dempsey Sisters
  • And Then There Was You
  • Act Like You Love Me
  • King's Faith
  • 24 Hour Love
  • Lonely Boy
  • Somebody's Child
  • Battlefield America
  • All Things Fall Apart
  • Mama, I Want to Sing!
  • The Rebound
  • The Women
  • Kings of the Evening
  • The Cheetah Girls 2
  • Confessions
  • Madea's Family Reunion
  • Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
  • The Cheetah Girls
  • Head of State
  • A Time for Dancing
  • Love Songs
  • Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
  • Deep in My Heart
  • Stepmom
  • The Wedding
  • Eve's Bayou
  • The Planet of Junior Brown
  • Gone Fishin'
  • A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
  • In the Army Now
  • Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
  • State of Emergency
  • Taking the Heat
  • Stompin' at the Savoy
  • A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
  • The Josephine Baker Story
  • Zora is My Name!
  • The Women of Brewster Place
  • The George McKenna Story
  • Jaws: The Revenge
  • Dead Aim
  • John Henry
  • Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
  • Silverado
  • The Slugger's Wife
  • Doctor Detroit
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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