Acting
Lynn Whitfield
EN, FR cinema · 72 credits
Born
15 February 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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
Filmography
The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen
as Dorothea Garibaldi
Strung
as Audra Jelani
Albany Road
as Paula Henderson
The Retirement Plan
as Drisdale
Woman in Motion
as Self
Vacation Friends
as Suzanne
Tales from the Hood 3
as Marie Benoît
Nappily Ever After
as Paulette Jones
Solace
as Irene
Espionage Tonight
as Sydney Greenstreet
Prayer Never Fails
as Loral Brown
Fear Files
as Madam Mabry
The Ugly Duckling
as Narrator (voice)
My Other Mother
as Mary Jo
30 Days in Atlanta
as Clara
Lap Dance
as Momma Pearl
The Fright Night Files
2014
The Fright Night Files
as Madame Mabry
King's Faith
as Vanessa
Lonely Boy
as Dr. Christine Nolan
24 Hour Love
as Cynthia
The Last Letter
as Lorraine
And Then There Was You
as Sophia Brent, Thanks, Producer
The Dempsey Sisters
as Olivia Norman
Act Like You Love Me
as Harriett Lofton
Somebody's Child
as Constance
The Redemption of a Dog
as Francine
Battlefield America
as Ms. Parker
Mama, I Want to Sing!
as Lillian Winter
The Rebound
as Laura Reilly
PoliWood
as Self
The Women
as Glenda Hill
Madea's Family Reunion
as Victoria
The Cheetah Girls 2
as Dorothea Garibaldi
Confessions
as Dr. Page
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
as Barbara Becnel
The Cheetah Girls
as Dorothea Garibaldi
Head of State
as Debra Lassiter
A Time for Dancing
as Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher
Deep in My Heart
as Corrine Burrell
The Color of Courage
as Minnie McGhee
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
as Lori Jackson
Love Songs
as Jean Simpson
The Wedding
as Corinne Coles
Stepmom
as Dr. P. Sweikert
Gone Fishin'
as Angie
Eve's Bayou
as Roz Batiste
The Planet of Junior Brown
as Mrs. Brown
In the Army Now
as Sgt. Ladd
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
as Bobbie Mallory
State of Emergency
as Dehlia Johnson
Taking the Heat
as Carolyn Hunter
The Josephine Baker Story
as Josephine Baker
The George McKenna Story
as Bobbie Maxwell
Jaws: The Revenge
as Louisa
Dead Aim
as Sheila Freeman
John Henry
as Pollie Ann
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as Johnnie Mae Gibson
Silverado
as Rae
The Slugger's Wife
as Tina Alvarado
Doctor Detroit
as Thelma Cleland