
Lynn Whitfield
1 FOLLOWER • 31 CREDITS • FEB 15, 1953 • 72
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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Known For

Touched by an Angel

Matlock

The Chi

Golden Globe Awards

Martin

Without a Trace

Tall Tales & Legends

Hill Street Blues

Shark

The Tyra Banks Show

Cagney & Lacey

Miami Vice

The Resident

How to Get Away with Murder

Promised Land

St. Denis Medical

Eyes of Wakanda

The Cheetah Girls 2

The Retirement Plan

Jaws: The Revenge

Stepmom

Vacation Friends

Nappily Ever After

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

The Cheetah Girls

The Rebound

The Cosby Mysteries

Deep in My Heart

State of Emergency

Fatal Attraction

Greenleaf
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