Lynn Whitfield
ActingLynn 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 — Acting
Stepmom
Dr. P. Sweikert
Silverado
Rae
Vacation Friends
Suzanne
The Rebound
Laura Reilly
Jaws: The Revenge
Louisa
Head of State
Debra Lassiter
The Retirement Plan
Drisdale
The Women
Glenda Hill
Eve's Bayou
Roz Batiste
Gone Fishin'
Angie
Lap Dance
Momma Pearl
The Cheetah Girls
Dorothea Garibaldi
Madea's Family Reunion
Victoria
The Cheetah Girls 2
Dorothea Garibaldi
Nappily Ever After
Paulette Jones
In the Army Now
Sgt. Ladd
Doctor Detroit
Thelma Cleland
Solace
Irene
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Brandi
A Time for Dancing
Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher
PoliWood
Self
Tales from the Hood 3
Marie Benoît
The Women of Brewster Place
Ciel
All Things Fall Apart
Bee
Prayer Never Fails
Loral Brown
The Wedding
Corinne Coles
Taking the Heat
Carolyn Hunter
The Slugger's Wife
Tina Alvarado
State of Emergency
Dehlia Johnson
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Barbara Becnel
Lonely Boy
Dr. Christine Nolan
The Color of Courage
Minnie McGhee
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
And Then There Was You
Sophia Brent
The Josephine Baker Story
Josephine Baker
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Johnnie Mae Gibson
The George McKenna Story
Bobbie Maxwell
The Redemption of a Dog
Francine
The Last Letter
Lorraine
Strung
Espionage Tonight
Sydney Greenstreet
Stompin' at the Savoy
Esther
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Self
Dead Aim
Sheila Freeman
The Planet of Junior Brown
Mrs. Brown
Love Songs
Jean Simpson
Battlefield America
Ms. Parker
Somebody's Child
Constance
Zora is My Name!
Mama, I Want to Sing!
Lillian Winter
Act Like You Love Me
Harriett Lofton
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Lori Jackson
Deep in My Heart
Corrine Burrell
The Dempsey Sisters
Olivia Norman
Confessions
Dr. Page
John Henry
Pollie Ann
My Other Mother
Mary Jo
Woman in Motion
Self
Kings of the Evening
Gracie
Albany Road
Paula Henderson
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Woman in bath
The Ugly Duckling
Narrator (voice)
The Fright Night Files
Madame Mabry
We Need a Little Christmas
Irene
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Herself
24 Hour Love
Cynthia
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Bobbie Mallory
King's Faith
Vanessa
30 Days in Atlanta
Clara
Sophie and the Moonhanger
Sophie