Lynn Whitfield
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Lynn Whitfield

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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 (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.

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Films Featuring Lynn Whitfield

Jaws: The Revenge

19874.1

The Women of Brewster Place

19896.8

Doctor Detroit

19835.1

The Ugly Duckling

2014

The Rebound

20096.5

Silverado

19857.0

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

20046.0

The Cheetah Girls

20036.1

Gone Fishin'

19974.9

Head of State

20035.6

In the Army Now

19945.1

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

19965.7

The George McKenna Story

19886.3

Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story

19946.1

All Things Fall Apart

20115.8

Eve's Bayou

19976.5

A Time for Dancing

20026.7

Zora is My Name!

199010.0

Madea's Family Reunion

20066.3

John Henry

198610.0

Mama, I Want to Sing!

20116.7

The Josephine Baker Story

19916.0

Deep in My Heart

19996.8

Kings of the Evening

2008

King's Faith

20137.0

The Retirement Plan

20235.8

The Color of Courage

19996.0

State of Emergency

19945.7

Lonely Boy

20134.6

A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

19915.3

24 Hour Love

20134.9

Somebody's Child

20125.3

Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

19998.0

The Last Letter

20133.5

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

19876.0

The Redemption of a Dog

20125.5

Dead Aim

19874.8

And Then There Was You

20135.3

Taking the Heat

19935.0

The Dempsey Sisters

20137.0

The Wedding

19988.3

Act Like You Love Me

20135.4

We Need a Little Christmas

20226.2

The Planet of Junior Brown

19974.5

The Slugger's Wife

19853.6

My Other Mother

20148.5

Albany Road

20244.6

Prayer Never Fails

20163.4

Battlefield America

20124.5

Sophie and the Moonhanger

19968.5

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

19828.5

The Cheetah Girls 2

20066.3

Espionage Tonight

20173.3

Nappily Ever After

20187.2

Solace

20184.7

30 Days in Atlanta

20145.0

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

19866.5

The Women

20085.1

Lap Dance

20144.2

Confessions

20061.7

Stepmom

19987.2

Stompin' at the Savoy

1992

Love Songs

19998.7

Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker

19994.7

Tales from the Hood 3

20205.1

Woman in Motion

20216.8

Vacation Friends

20217.0

PoliWood

20096.5

Strung

20267.7

The Fright Night Files

The Fright Night Files

20144.0

The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen

Fear Files

20151.0