Lynn Whitfield
Actor
Born February 15, 1953 in 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.
Filmography
The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen
Dorothea Garibaldi
Strung
Audra Jelani
Eyes of Wakanda
Older Noni (voice)
Albany Road
Paula Henderson
St. Denis Medical
Barb
The Retirement Plan
Drisdale
We Need a Little Christmas
Irene
Sherri
Self - Guest
Vacation Friends
Suzanne
Woman in Motion
Self
Tales from the Hood 3
Marie Benoît
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Solace
Irene
Nappily Ever After
Paulette Jones
The Resident
Josephine Okeke
The Chi
Alicia
Espionage Tonight
Sydney Greenstreet
Steve
Self
Greenleaf
Lady Mae Greenleaf
Prayer Never Fails
Loral Brown
Lap Dance
Momma Pearl
30 Days in Atlanta
Clara
How to Get Away with Murder
Mary Walker
My Other Mother
Mary Jo
Chasing Life
Karen Callahan
The Ugly Duckling
Narrator (voice)
The Last Letter
Lorraine
The Dempsey Sisters
Olivia Norman
And Then There Was You
Sophia Brent
Act Like You Love Me
Harriett Lofton
Fatal Attraction
Narrator (voice)
King's Faith
Vanessa
24 Hour Love
Cynthia
Lonely Boy
Dr. Christine Nolan
The Redemption of a Dog
Francine
Somebody's Child
Constance
Battlefield America
Ms. Parker
All Things Fall Apart
Bee
Mama, I Want to Sing!
Lillian Winter
FlashForward
Anastasia Markham
The Rebound
Laura Reilly
PoliWood
Self
The Women
Glenda Hill
Kings of the Evening
Gracie
Shark
Anita Astin
The Cheetah Girls 2
Dorothea Garibaldi
Confessions
Dr. Page
Madea's Family Reunion
Victoria
The Tyra Banks Show
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Barbara Becnel
The Cheetah Girls
Dorothea Garibaldi
Head of State
Debra Lassiter
Without a Trace
Paula Van Doren
A Time for Dancing
Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher
A Girl Thing
Nia Morgan
Boston Public
Louanna Harper
Strong Medicine
Dr. Marshall
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Herself
Love Songs
Jean Simpson
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Lori Jackson
Deep in My Heart
Corrine Burrell
The Color of Courage
Minnie McGhee
Stepmom
Dr. P. Sweikert
The Wedding
Corinne Coles
Eve's Bayou
Roz Batiste
The Planet of Junior Brown
Mrs. Brown
Gone Fishin'
Angie
Promised Land
Dr. Serena Hall
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Brandi
Sophie and the Moonhanger
Sophie
The Cosby Mysteries
Touched by an Angel
Dr. Serena Hall
In the Army Now
Sgt. Ladd
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Bobbie Mallory
State of Emergency
Dehlia Johnson
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Taking the Heat
Carolyn Hunter
Martin
Ellen
Stompin' at the Savoy
Esther
The Josephine Baker Story
Josephine Baker
Zora is My Name!
Snoops
Denise Kendall
The Women of Brewster Place
Ciel
The Women of Brewster Place
Ciel
The George McKenna Story
Bobbie Maxwell
HeartBeat
Dr. Cory Banks
Jaws: The Revenge
Louisa
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Self
Dead Aim
Sheila Freeman
John Henry
Pollie Ann
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Johnnie Mae Gibson
Matlock
Angela Page
Tall Tales & Legends
Pollie Ann
Silverado
Rae
The Slugger's Wife
Tina Alvarado
Miami Vice
Odette Ribaud
Trauma Center
Doctor Detroit
Thelma Cleland
St. Elsewhere
Annie Callan
Matt Houston
Val
Cagney & Lacey
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Woman in bath
American Playhouse
Woman in the bath
Hill Street Blues
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee