Lynn Whitfield

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: Acting

Born: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, 1953-02-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf	Woman in bath	100
2	1983	Doctor Detroit	Thelma Cleland	50
3	1985	The Slugger's Wife	Tina Alvarado	34
4	1985	Silverado	Rae	70
5	1986	Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI	Johnnie Mae Gibson	50
6	1986	John Henry	Pollie Ann	0
7	1987	Dead Aim	Sheila Freeman	43
8	1987	The Making of Jaws The Revenge	Self	60
9	1987	Jaws: The Revenge	Louisa	41
10	1988	The George McKenna Story	Bobbie Maxwell	62
11	1989	The Women of Brewster Place	Ciel	69
12	1990	Zora is My Name!		0
13	1991	The Josephine Baker Story	Josephine Baker	60
14	1991	A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story		51
15	1992	Stompin' at the Savoy	Esther	0
16	1993	Taking the Heat	Carolyn Hunter	48
17	1994	State of Emergency	Dehlia Johnson	40
18	1994	Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story	Bobbie Mallory	55
19	1994	In the Army Now	Sgt. Ladd	51
20	1996	Sophie and the Moonhanger	Sophie	70
21	1996	A Thin Line Between Love and Hate	Brandi	56
22	1997	Gone Fishin'	Angie	48
23	1997	The Planet of Junior Brown	Mrs. Brown	40
24	1997	Eve's Bayou	Roz Batiste	63
25	1998	The Wedding	Corinne Coles	83
26	1998	Stepmom	Dr. P. Sweikert	71
27	1999	The Color of Courage	Minnie McGhee	57
28	1999	Deep in My Heart	Corrine Burrell	60
29	1999	Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story	Lori Jackson	0
30	1999	Love Songs	Jean Simpson	80
31	1999	Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker	Herself	20
32	2001	A Girl Thing	Nia Morgan	38
33	2002	A Time for Dancing	Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher	67
34	2003	Head of State	Debra Lassiter	56
35	2003	The Cheetah Girls	Dorothea Garibaldi	60
36	2004	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Barbara Becnel	60
37	2006	Madea's Family Reunion	Victoria	63
38	2006	Confessions	Dr. Page	17
39	2006	The Cheetah Girls 2	Dorothea Garibaldi	63
40	2008	Kings of the Evening	Gracie	0
41	2008	The Women	Glenda Hill	51
42	2009	PoliWood	Self	65
43	2009	The Rebound	Laura Reilly	65
44	2011	Mama, I Want to Sing!	Lillian Winter	66
45	2011	All Things Fall Apart	Bee	58
46	2012	Battlefield America	Ms. Parker	44
47	2012	Somebody's Child	Constance	53
48	2012	The Redemption of a Dog	Francine	55
49	2013	Lonely Boy	Dr. Christine Nolan	43
50	2013	24 Hour Love	Cynthia	48
51	2013	King's Faith	Vanessa	69
52	2013	Act Like You Love Me	Harriett Lofton	54
53	2013	And Then There Was You	Sophia Brent	56
54	2013	The Dempsey Sisters	Olivia Norman	70
55	2013	The Last Letter	Lorraine	36
56	2014	The Ugly Duckling	Narrator (voice)	0
57	2014	My Other Mother	Mary Jo	85
58	2014	30 Days in Atlanta	Clara	0
59	2014	Lap Dance	Momma Pearl	44
60	2016	Prayer Never Fails	Loral Brown	34
61	2017	Espionage Tonight	Sydney Greenstreet	34
62	2018	Nappily Ever After	Paulette Jones	72
63	2018	Solace	Irene	47
64	2020	Tales from the Hood 3	Marie Benoît	52
65	2021	Woman in Motion	Self	68
66	2021	Vacation Friends	Suzanne	70
67	2022	We Need a Little Christmas	Irene	62
68	2023	The Retirement Plan	Drisdale	60
69	2024	Albany Road	Paula Henderson	0
70		Help		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
3	1981	Hill Street Blues	Jill Thomas	76
4	1982	Cagney & Lacey		69
5	1982	Matt Houston	Val	62
6	1983	Trauma Center		50
7	1984	Miami Vice		75
8	1985	Tall Tales & Legends	Pollie Ann	54
9	1986	Matlock		71
10	1988	HeartBeat	Dr. Cory Banks	30
11	1989	Snoops	Denise Kendall	50
12	1992	Martin	Ellen	76
13	1994	The Cosby Mysteries		53
14	1994	Touched by an Angel	Dr. Serena Hall	72
15	1996	Saturday Night Special		50
16	1996	Promised Land	Dr. Serena Hall	66
17	2000	Strong Medicine	Dr. Marshall	71
18	2000	Boston Public	Louanna Harper	76
19	2002	Without a Trace	Paula Van Doren	72
20	2005	The Tyra Banks Show		50
21	2006	Shark		68
22	2009	FlashForward	Anastasia Markham	70
23	2013	Fatal Attraction	Narrator (voice)	69
24	2014	Chasing Life	Karen Callahan	74
25	2014	How to Get Away with Murder	Mary Walker	78
26	2016	Greenleaf	Lady Mae Greenleaf	71
27	2018	The Chi	Alicia	79
28	2018	The Resident	Josephine Okeke	84
29	2019	Tamron Hall	Self - Guest	51
30	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42
31	2024	St. Denis Medical	Barb	70

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