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.
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Acting (68 movies)
Jaws: The Revenge
1987
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
Doctor Detroit
1983
The Ugly Duckling
2014
The Rebound
2009
Silverado
1985
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004
The Cheetah Girls
2003
Gone Fishin'
1997
Head of State
2003
In the Army Now
1994
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
1996
The George McKenna Story
1988
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
1994
All Things Fall Apart
2011
Eve's Bayou
1997
A Time for Dancing
2002
Zora is My Name!
1990
Madea's Family Reunion
2006
John Henry
1986
Mama, I Want to Sing!
2011
The Josephine Baker Story
1991
Deep in My Heart
1999
Kings of the Evening
2008
King's Faith
2013
The Retirement Plan
2023
The Color of Courage
1999
State of Emergency
1994
Lonely Boy
2013
24 Hour Love
2013
Somebody's Child
2012
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
1999
The Last Letter
2013
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
1987
The Redemption of a Dog
2012
Dead Aim
1987
And Then There Was You
2013
Taking the Heat
1993
The Dempsey Sisters
2013
The Wedding
1998
Act Like You Love Me
2013
We Need a Little Christmas
2022
The Planet of Junior Brown
1997
The Slugger's Wife
1985
My Other Mother
2014
Albany Road
2024
Prayer Never Fails
2016
Battlefield America
2012
Sophie and the Moonhanger
1996
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982
The Cheetah Girls 2
2006
Espionage Tonight
2017
Nappily Ever After
2018
Solace
2018
30 Days in Atlanta
2014
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986
The Women
2008
A Girl Thing
2001
Lap Dance
2014
Confessions
2006
Stepmom
1998
Stompin' at the Savoy
1992
Love Songs
1999
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
1999
Tales from the Hood 3
2020
Woman in Motion
2021
Vacation Friends
2021
PoliWood
2009
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| And Then There Was You | 2013 | Producer |