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Acting
Birthday
February 15, 1953
Place of Birth
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Lynn Whitfield
1.4 Popularity
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
6.0
Older Noni (voice)
Eyes of Wakanda
2025
3.5
Paula Henderson
Albany Road
2024
6.8
Barb
St. Denis Medical
2024
6.0
Drisdale
The Retirement Plan
2023
6.2
Irene
We Need a Little Christmas
2022
3.0
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
7.0
Suzanne
Vacation Friends
2021
6.8
Self
Woman in Motion
2021
5.1
Marie Benoît
Tales from the Hood 3
2020
4.9
Self - Guest
Tamron Hall
2019
Credits
Eyes of Wakanda
as Older Noni (voice)
2025
6.0
Albany Road
as Paula Henderson
2024
3.5
St. Denis Medical
as Barb
2024
6.8
The Retirement Plan
as Drisdale
2023
6.0
We Need a Little Christmas
as Irene
2022
6.2
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
Vacation Friends
as Suzanne
2021
7.0
Woman in Motion
as Self
2021
6.8
Tales from the Hood 3
as Marie Benoît
2020
5.1
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
4.9
Solace
as Irene
2018
4.7
Nappily Ever After
as Paulette Jones
2018
7.2
The Resident
as Josephine Okeke
2018
8.4
The Chi
as Alicia
2018
7.8
Espionage Tonight
as Sydney Greenstreet
2017
3.4
Greenleaf
as Lady Mae Greenleaf
2016
7.0
Prayer Never Fails
as Loral Brown
2016
3.4
Lap Dance
as Momma Pearl
2014
4.2
30 Days in Atlanta
as Clara
2014
0.0
How to Get Away with Murder
as Mary Walker
2014
7.8
My Other Mother
as Mary Jo
2014
8.5
Chasing Life
as Karen Callahan
2014
7.2
The Ugly Duckling
as Narrator (voice)
2014
0.0
The Last Letter
as Lorraine
2013
3.5
The Dempsey Sisters
as Olivia Norman
2013
7.0
And Then There Was You
as Sophia Brent
2013
5.6
Act Like You Love Me
as Harriett Lofton
2013
5.4
Fatal Attraction
as Narrator (voice)
2013
7.2
King's Faith
as Vanessa
2013
6.9
24 Hour Love
as Cynthia
2013
4.9
Lonely Boy
as Dr. Christine Nolan
2013
4.6
The Redemption of a Dog
as Francine
2012
5.5
Somebody's Child
as Constance
2012
5.3
Battlefield America
as Ms. Parker
2012
4.5
All Things Fall Apart
as Bee
2011
5.8
Mama, I Want to Sing!
as Lillian Winter
2011
6.6
FlashForward
as Anastasia Markham
2009
7.0
The Rebound
as Laura Reilly
2009
6.5
PoliWood
as Self
2009
6.5
The Women
as Glenda Hill
2008
5.1
Kings of the Evening
as Gracie
2008
0.0
Shark
as Anita Astin
2006
6.7
The Cheetah Girls 2
as Dorothea Garibaldi
2006
6.3
Confessions
as Dr. Page
2006
1.7
Madea's Family Reunion
as Victoria
2006
6.4
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
4.8
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
as Barbara Becnel
2004
6.0
The Cheetah Girls
as Dorothea Garibaldi
2003
6.0
Head of State
as Debra Lassiter
2003
5.6
Without a Trace
as Paula Van Doren
2002
7.2
A Time for Dancing
as Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher
2002
6.7
A Girl Thing
as Nia Morgan
2001
0.0
Boston Public
as Louanna Harper
2000
7.6
Strong Medicine
as Dr. Marshall
2000
7.3
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
as Herself
1999
2.0
Love Songs
as Jean Simpson
1999
8.0
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
as Lori Jackson
1999
0.0
Deep in My Heart
as Corrine Burrell
1999
6.0
The Color of Courage
as Minnie McGhee
1999
5.7
Stepmom
as Dr. P. Sweikert
1998
7.2
The Wedding
as Corinne Coles
1998
8.3
Eve's Bayou
as Roz Batiste
1997
6.4
The Planet of Junior Brown
as Mrs. Brown
1997
4.0
Gone Fishin'
as Angie
1997
4.8
Promised Land
as Dr. Serena Hall
1996
6.1
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Saturday Night Special
1996
5.0
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
as Brandi
1996
5.6
Sophie and the Moonhanger
as Sophie
1996
7.0
Touched by an Angel
as Dr. Serena Hall
1994
7.2
The Cosby Mysteries
1994
5.3
In the Army Now
as Sgt. Ladd
1994
5.1
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
as Bobbie Mallory
1994
5.6
State of Emergency
as Dehlia Johnson
1994
4.0
Taking the Heat
as Carolyn Hunter
1993
4.0
Martin
as Ellen
1992
7.7
Stompin' at the Savoy
as Esther
1992
0.0
🎬
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
1991
5.1
The Josephine Baker Story
as Josephine Baker
1991
5.7
Zora is My Name!
1990
0.0
Snoops
as Denise Kendall
1989
5.0
The Women of Brewster Place
as Ciel
1989
5.0
The Women of Brewster Place
as Ciel
1989
6.6
The George McKenna Story
as Bobbie Maxwell
1988
6.4
HeartBeat
as Dr. Cory Banks
1988
2.3
Jaws: The Revenge
as Louisa
1987
4.1
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
as Self
1987
6.0
Dead Aim
as Sheila Freeman
1987
3.8
John Henry
as Pollie Ann
1986
0.0
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as Johnnie Mae Gibson
1986
5.0
Matlock
as Angela Page
1986
7.1
Tall Tales & Legends
as Pollie Ann
1985
5.4
Silverado
as Rae
1985
7.0
The Slugger's Wife
as Tina Alvarado
1985
3.4
Miami Vice
as Odette Ribaud
1984
7.5
Trauma Center
1983
5.0
Doctor Detroit
as Thelma Cleland
1983
5.0
St. Elsewhere
as Annie Callan
1982
5.6
Matt Houston
as Val
1982
6.2
Cagney & Lacey
1982
7.0
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
as Woman in bath
1982
10.0
Hill Street Blues
1981
7.6
Hill Street Blues
as Jill Thomas
1981
7.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
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