
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
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Zora is My Name!
1990 · Movie
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John Henry
1986 · Movie
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Love Songs
1999 · Movie
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My Other Mother
2014 · Movie
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The Resident
2018 · Series
Sophie and the Moonhanger
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Sophie and the Moonhanger
1996 · Movie
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982 · Movie
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The Wedding
1998 · Movie
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The Chi
2018 · Series
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Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
1999 · Movie
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How to Get Away with Murder
2014 · Series
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Boston Public
2000 · Series
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A Girl Thing
2001 · Series
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Martin
1992 · Series
Saturday Night Special
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Saturday Night Special
1996 · Series
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Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
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Strong Medicine
2000 · Series
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Nappily Ever After
2018 · Movie
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Chasing Life
2014 · Series
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Fatal Attraction
2013 · Series
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Miami Vice
1984 · Series
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Without a Trace
2002 · Series
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Greenleaf
2016 · Series
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Vacation Friends
2021 · Movie
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
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Touched by an Angel
1994 · Series
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Stepmom
1998 · Movie
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King's Faith
2013 · Movie
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The Dempsey Sisters
2013 · Movie
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FlashForward
2009 · Series
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Woman in Motion
2021 · Movie
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Matlock
1986 · Series
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St. Denis Medical
2024 · Series
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Trauma Center
1983 · Series
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Silverado
1985 · Movie
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Cagney & Lacey
1982 · Series
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Shark
2006 · Series
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Deep in My Heart
1999 · Movie
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Mama, I Want to Sing!
2011 · Movie
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A Time for Dancing
2002 · Movie
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The Women of Brewster Place
1989 · Movie
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Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
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The Rebound
2009 · Movie
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PoliWood
2009 · Movie
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Promised Land
1996 · Series
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Eyes of Wakanda
2025 · Series
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Madea's Family Reunion
2006 · Movie
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We Need a Little Christmas
2022 · Movie