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person_profile-Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield Age: 72

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Feb 15, 1953

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

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 an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special and a NAACP Image Award for her performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO movie The Josephine Baker Story (1991). She also won NAACP Image awards for her work in Touched by an Angel (1998), The Planet of Junior Brown (2000) and Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004).

    Her film work includes performances in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996), Eve's Bayou (1997), Stepmom (1998), Head of State (2003), The Cheetah Girls (2003), The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006), Madea's Family Reunion (2006), The Women (2008), Nappily Ever After (2018), and Vacation Friends (2021).

    From 2016 to 2020, she starred as Lady Mae Greenleaf on OWN's dramatic series Greenleaf, for which she won critical acclaim and garnered two NAACP Image Awards and a Gracie Award. She has won a total of seven NAACP Image Awards.

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Filmography of

Lynn Whitfield

Found 63 Movies in total

Albany Road

Paula ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2023

... 2022

Vacation Friends

Suzanne ( Actor )

... 2021

Woman in Motion

Self ( Actor )

... 2021

Tales from the Hood 3

Marie Benoît ( Actor )

... 2020

Solace

Irene ( Actor )

... 2018

Nappily Ever After

Paulette Jones ( Actor )

... 2018

Espionage Tonight

Sydney Greenstreet ( Actor )

... 2017

Prayer Never Fails

Loral Brown ( Actor )

... 2016

Lap Dance

Momma Pearl ( Actor )

... 2014

My Other Mother

Mary Jo ( Actor )

... 2014

The Dempsey Sisters

Olivia Norman ( Actor )

... 2013

And Then There Was You

Sophia Brent ( Actor )

Thanks

... 2013

Act Like You Love Me

Harriett Lofton ( Actor )

... 2013

King's Faith

Vanessa ( Actor )

... 2013

24 Hour Love

Cynthia ( Actor )

... 2013

Lonely Boy

Dr. Christine Nolan ( Actor )

... 2013

Somebody's Child

Constance ( Actor )

... 2012

Battlefield America

Ms. Parker ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2011

Mama, I Want to Sing!

Lillian Winter ( Actor )

... 2011

The Rebound

Laura Reilly ( Actor )

... 2009

PoliWood

Self ( Actor )

... 2009

The Women

Glenda Hill ( Actor )

... 2008

Kings of the Evening

Gracie ( Actor )

... 2008

The Cheetah Girls 2

Dorothea Garibaldi ( Actor )

... 2006

Confessions

Dr. Page ( Actor )

... 2006

Madea's Family Reunion

Victoria ( Actor )

... 2006

... 2004

The Cheetah Girls

Dorothea Garibaldi ( Actor )

... 2003

Head of State

Debra Lassiter ( Actor )

... 2003

A Time for Dancing

Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher ( Actor )

... 2002

A Girl Thing

Nia Morgan ( Actor )

... 2001

... 1999

... 1999

... 1999

Deep in My Heart

Corrine Burrell ( Actor )

... 1999

Stepmom

Dr. P. Sweikert ( Actor )

... 1998

The Wedding

Corinne Coles ( Actor )

... 1998

Eve's Bayou

Roz Batiste ( Actor )

... 1997

The Planet of Junior Brown

Mrs. Brown ( Actor )

... 1997

Gone Fishin'

Angie ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1996

... 1996

In the Army Now

Sgt. Ladd ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1994

State of Emergency

Dehlia Johnson ( Actor )

... 1994

Taking the Heat

Carolyn Hunter ( Actor )

... 1993

Stompin' at the Savoy

Esther ( Actor )

... 1992

The Josephine Baker Story

Josephine Baker ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1990

... 1989

The George McKenna Story

Bobbie Maxwell ( Actor )

... 1988

Jaws: The Revenge

Louisa ( Actor )

... 1987

Dead Aim

Sheila Freeman ( Actor )

... 1987

John Henry

Pollie Ann ( Actor )

... 1986

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

Johnnie Mae Gibson ( Actor )

... 1986

Silverado

Rae ( Actor )

... 1985

The Slugger's Wife

Tina Alvarado ( Actor )

... 1985

Doctor Detroit

Thelma Cleland ( Actor )

... 1983