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.
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Known for
Eyes of Wakanda
Older Noni (voice)
The Resident
Josephine Okeke
Miami Vice
How to Get Away with Murder
Mary Walker
Without a Trace
Paula Van Doren
The Chi
Alicia
Fatal Attraction
Narrator (voice)
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Jill Thomas
Matlock
Strong Medicine
Dr. Marshall
Matt Houston
Val
Touched by an Angel
Dr. Serena Hall
Martin
Ellen
FlashForward
Anastasia Markham
Greenleaf
Lady Mae Greenleaf
Boston Public
Louanna Harper
Cagney & Lacey
Promised Land
Dr. Serena Hall
Chasing Life
Karen Callahan
Shark
Trauma Center
St. Denis Medical
Barb
Snoops
Denise Kendall
HeartBeat
Dr. Cory Banks
The Cosby Mysteries
Jaws: The Revenge
Louisa
Stepmom
Dr. P. Sweikert
Vacation Friends
Suzanne
Madea's Family Reunion
Victoria
Tall Tales & Legends
Pollie Ann
Silverado
Rae
The Rebound
Laura Reilly
The Retirement Plan
Drisdale
Head of State
Debra Lassiter
Nappily Ever After
Paulette Jones
Tales from the Hood 3
Marie Benoît
The Women
Glenda Hill
The Cheetah Girls 2
Dorothea Garibaldi
The Cheetah Girls
Dorothea Garibaldi
Eve's Bayou
Roz Batiste
Lap Dance
Momma Pearl
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Brandi
Lonely Boy
Dr. Christine Nolan
All Things Fall Apart
Bee
Gone Fishin'
Angie
Saturday Night Special
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Barbara Becnel
The Josephine Baker Story
Josephine Baker
Doctor Detroit
Thelma Cleland
In the Army Now
Sgt. Ladd
The Women of Brewster Place
Ciel
Battlefield America
Ms. Parker
We Need a Little Christmas
Irene
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
A Girl Thing
Nia Morgan
A Time for Dancing
Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher
And Then There Was You
Sophia Brent
Act Like You Love Me
Harriett Lofton
The Wedding
Corinne Coles
PoliWood
Self
The Slugger's Wife
Tina Alvarado
Deep in My Heart
Corrine Burrell
My Other Mother
Mary Jo
The Last Letter
Lorraine
Somebody's Child
Constance
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Lori Jackson
The Color of Courage
Minnie McGhee
Dead Aim
Sheila Freeman
The George McKenna Story
Bobbie Maxwell
Espionage Tonight
Sydney Greenstreet
The Dempsey Sisters
Olivia Norman
Solace
Irene
Prayer Never Fails
Loral Brown
John Henry
Pollie Ann
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Bobbie Mallory
Confessions
Dr. Page
Love Songs
Jean Simpson
Zora is My Name!
Woman in Motion
Self
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Woman in bath
Albany Road
Paula Henderson
24 Hour Love
Cynthia
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Self
King's Faith
Vanessa
State of Emergency
Dehlia Johnson
Stompin' at the Savoy
Esther
Mama, I Want to Sing!
Lillian Winter
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Johnnie Mae Gibson
The Redemption of a Dog
Francine
Kings of the Evening
Gracie
Taking the Heat
Carolyn Hunter
The Planet of Junior Brown
Mrs. Brown
Sophie and the Moonhanger
Sophie
30 Days in Atlanta
Clara
Help
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Ugly Duckling
Narrator (voice)
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Herself
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest