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Lynn Whitfield

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress | * 05/06/1953 (70) | Baton Rouge, Louisiana (United States of America (USA))
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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 ()
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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'sdramatic series Greenleaf, for which she won critical acclaim and garnered two NAACP Image Awards and a Gracie Award. She has won a total of sevenNAACP Image Awards.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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The Josephine Baker Story

Certification unknown

1991 | 3.2/5 | 2h 10min
Drama, History, Music, Romance / Love, TV Movie
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Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious ...

Madea's Family Reunion

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2006 | 3.2/5 | 1h 50min
Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
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Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured. ...

Eve's Bayou

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1997 | 3.2/5 | 1h 49min
Drama
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After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has ...

Jaws: The Revenge

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1987 | 2.0/5 | 1h 29min
Adventure, Thriller, Horror
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Awards & Nominations for Lynn Whitfield

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited-Series) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
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Movies with Lynn Whitfield as Actress(66)

2023 The Retirement Plan
2022 We Need a Little Christmas
as Suzanne2021 Vacation Friends
as herself2021 Woman in Motion
as Marie Benoît2020 Tales from the Hood 3
as Irene2018 Solace
as Paulette Jones2018 Nappily Ever After
as Sydney Greenstreet2017 Espionage Tonight
as Loral Brown2016 Prayer Never Fails
as Clara2014 30 Days in Atlanta
as Momma Pearl2014 Lap Dance
as Mary Jo2014 My Other Mother
as Harriett2013 Act Like You Love Me
as Cynthia2013 24 Hour Love
as Sophia Brent2013 And Then There Was You
as Vanessa2013 King's Faith
as Dr. Christine Nolan2013 Lonely Boy
as Olivia Norman2013 The Dempsey Sisters
as Lorraine2013 The Last Letter
as Ms. Parker2012 Battlefield America
as Constance2012 Somebody's Child
as Francine2012 The Redemption of a Dog
as Bee2011 All Things Fall Apart
as Lillian Winter2011 Mama, I Want to Sing!
as herself2009 PoliWood
as Laura Reilly2009 The Rebound
as Glenda Hill2008 The Women
as Gracie2008 Kings of the Evening
as Victoria2006 Madea's Family Reunion
as Dorothea Garibaldi2006 The Cheetah Girls 2
as Dr. Page2006 Confessions
as Barbara Becnel2004 Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
as Debra Lassiter2003 Head of State
as Dorothea Garibaldi2003 The Cheetah Girls
as Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher2002 A Time for Dancing
as Nia Morgan2001 A Girl Thing
as herself1999 Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
as Lori Jackson1999 Dangerous Evidence
as Minnie McGhee1999 The Color of Courage
1999 Love Songs
as Corrine Burrell1999 Deep in My Heart
as Corinne Coles1998 The Wedding
as Dr. P. Sweikert1998 Stepmom
as Roz Batiste1997 Eve's Bayou
as Mrs. Brown1997 The Planet of Junior Brown
as Angie1997 Gone Fishin'
as Brandi1996 A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
as Sophie1996 Sophie and the Moonhanger
as Bobbie Mallory1994 Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
as Dehlia Johnson1994 State of Emergency
as Sgt. Ladd1994 In the Army Now
as Carolyn Hunter1993 Taking the Heat
1991 A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
as Josephine Baker1991 The Josephine Baker Story
1990 Zora is My Name!
as Ciel1989 The Women of Brewster Place
as Bobbie Maxwell1988 The George McKenna Story
as Louisa1987 Jaws: The Revenge
as Sheila Freeman1987 Dead Aim
as herself1987 The Making of Jaws The Revenge
as Pollie Ann1986 John Henry
as Johnnie Mae Gibson1986 Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as Tina Alvarado1985 The Slugger's Wife
as Rae1985 Silverado
as Thelma Cleland1983 Doctor Detroit
as Woman in bath1982 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

TV Shows/Series with Lynn Whitfield as Actress(23)

as Self - Guest2019 Tamron Hall
as Josephine Okeke2018 The Resident
as Lady Mae Greenleaf2016 Greenleaf
as Mary Walker2014 How to Get Away with Murder
as Karen Callahan2014 Chasing Life
as Narrator (voice)2013 Fatal Attraction
as Anastasia Markham2009 FlashForward
2006 Shark
2005 The Tyra Banks Show
as Paula Van Doren2002 Without a Trace
as Louanna Harper2000 Boston Public
as Dr. Serena Hall1996 Promised Land
1996 Saturday Night Special
1994 The Cosby Mysteries
1992 Martin
1990 Equal Justice
as Dr. Cory Banks1988 HeartBeat
1986 Matlock
as Pollie Ann1985 Tall Tales & Legends
1984 Miami Vice
1982 Matt Houston
1982 Cagney & Lacey
1981 Hill Street Blues

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Full Name: Lynn Whitfield
Born: Wednesday, 05/06 1953 (May) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 70 years + 354 days)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Howard University, McKinley Senior High School
Member of: Alpha Kappa Alpha
Spouses (current/former): Brian Gibson, Vantile Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield frequently works together with these people:
Michael Cavanaugh (7x, Actor)
Jonathan Banks (6x, Actor)
Paul D. Hannah (6x, Crew)
Julio Oscar Mechoso (6x, Actor)
Georg Stanford Brown (6x, Actor)
Thomas Carter (6x, Crew)
David S. Goyer (5x, Crew)
Tyler Perry (5x, Crew)
Mario Van Peebles (5x, Actor)
Dick Wolf (5x, Crew)
Jenny Gago (5x, Actress)
John J. Sakmar (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:7796, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/01/2024