Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 15, 1953
Place of Birth
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Credits
109 titles
Lynn Whitfield
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
Audra Jelani
Eyes of Wakanda
Older Noni (voice)
Albany Road
Paula Henderson
St. Denis Medical
Barb
The Retirement Plan
Drisdale
We Need a Little Christmas
Irene
Sherri
Self - Guest
Vacation Friends
Suzanne
Woman in Motion
Self
Tales from the Hood 3
Marie Benoît
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Solace
Irene
Nappily Ever After
Paulette Jones
The Resident
Josephine Okeke
The Chi
Alicia
Espionage Tonight
Sydney Greenstreet
Steve
Self
Greenleaf
Lady Mae Greenleaf
Prayer Never Fails
Loral Brown
Fear Files
Madam Mabry
Lap Dance
Momma Pearl
30 Days in Atlanta
Clara
The Fright Night Files
Madame Mabry
How to Get Away with Murder
Mary Walker
My Other Mother
Mary Jo
Chasing Life
Karen Callahan
The Ugly Duckling
Narrator (voice)
The Last Letter
Lorraine
The Dempsey Sisters
Olivia Norman
And Then There Was You
Sophia Brent
Act Like You Love Me
Harriett Lofton
Fatal Attraction
Narrator (voice)
King's Faith
Vanessa
24 Hour Love
Cynthia
Lonely Boy
Dr. Christine Nolan
The Redemption of a Dog
Francine
Somebody's Child
Constance
Battlefield America
Ms. Parker
All Things Fall Apart
Bee
Mama, I Want to Sing!
Lillian Winter
FlashForward
Anastasia Markham
The Rebound
Laura Reilly
PoliWood
Self
The Women
Glenda Hill
Kings of the Evening
Gracie
Shark
Anita Astin
The Cheetah Girls 2
Dorothea Garibaldi
Confessions
Dr. Page
Madea's Family Reunion
Victoria
The Tyra Banks Show