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.
106 acting credits
Acting · 106
Without a Trace
2002
The Resident
2018
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Miami Vice
1984
Hill Street Blues
1981
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
Strong Medicine
2000
St. Elsewhere
1982
Shark
2006
Sherri
2022
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Chi
2018
Matlock
1986
Boston Public
2000
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Tamron Hall
2019
Martin
1992
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
Greenleaf
2016
Matt Houston
1982
FlashForward
2009
St. Denis Medical
2024
Chasing Life
2014
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Promised Land
1996
Fatal Attraction
2013
Steve
2017
Snoops
1989
Trauma Center
1983
Eyes of Wakanda
2025
The Rebound
2009
Silverado
1985
Vacation Friends
2021
Stepmom
1998
Jaws: The Revenge
1987
The Cosby Mysteries
1994
Madea's Family Reunion
2006
The Women
2008
Saturday Night Special
1996
Strung
2026
HeartBeat
1988
Head of State
2003
The Retirement Plan
2023
Gone Fishin'
1997
Nappily Ever After
2018
The Cheetah Girls
2003
Eve's Bayou
1997
A Girl Thing
2001
In the Army Now
1994
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
1996
PoliWood
2009
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
The Cheetah Girls 2
2006
Lap Dance
2014
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
1994
The Slugger's Wife
1985
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004
The Wedding
1998
Doctor Detroit
1983
Tales from the Hood 3
2020
All Things Fall Apart
2011
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
1987
The Color of Courage
1999
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
State of Emergency
1994
The George McKenna Story
1988
Taking the Heat
1993
The Josephine Baker Story
1991
Lonely Boy
2013
The Last Letter
2013
Espionage Tonight
2017
And Then There Was You
2013
Dead Aim
1987
Deep in My Heart
1999
A Time for Dancing
2002
Battlefield America
2012
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1986
Prayer Never Fails
2016
We Need a Little Christmas
2022
Confessions
2006
24 Hour Love
2013
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982
Mama, I Want to Sing!
2011
Zora is My Name!
1990
Stompin' at the Savoy
1992
Albany Road
2024
Somebody's Child
2012
Sophie and the Moonhanger
1996
John Henry
1986
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
1991
The Planet of Junior Brown
1997
The Dempsey Sisters
2013
Woman in Motion
2021
Kings of the Evening
2008
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
1999
King's Faith
2013
Solace
2018
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
1999
My Other Mother
2014
Act Like You Love Me
2013
The Redemption of a Dog
2012
30 Days in Atlanta
2014
Love Songs
1999
The Fright Night Files
2014
The Ugly Duckling
2014