Lynn Whitfield

Known for ActingBorn 1953-02-15 (age 73)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Zora is My Name!

John Henry

Love Songs

My Other Mother

The Resident

Sophie and the Moonhanger

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

The Wedding

The Chi

Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

How to Get Away with Murder

Boston Public

A Girl Thing

Martin

Saturday Night Special

Hill Street Blues

Strong Medicine

Nappily Ever After

Chasing Life

Fatal Attraction

Miami Vice

Greenleaf

Without a Trace

Vacation Friends

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Touched by an Angel

Stepmom

King's Faith

The Dempsey Sisters

FlashForward

Woman in Motion

Matlock

St. Denis Medical

Trauma Center

Silverado

Cagney & Lacey

Shark

Deep in My Heart

Mama, I Want to Sing!

A Time for Dancing

The Women of Brewster Place

Golden Globe Awards

The Rebound

PoliWood

Promised Land

Madea's Family Reunion

Eyes of Wakanda

We Need a Little Christmas