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.

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How to Get Away with Murder

7.8

Stepmom

7.1

The Resident

8.4

Jaws: The Revenge

4.1

The Rebound

6.5

Nappily Ever After

7.2

Vacation Friends

7.0

Silverado

7.0

FlashForward

7.0

The Cheetah Girls

6.0

Miami Vice

7.4

The Cheetah Girls 2

6.3

The Women

5.1

Head of State

5.6

Without a Trace

7.3

The Retirement Plan

6.1

In the Army Now

5.0

Madea's Family Reunion

6.3

The Chi

8.0

Touched by an Angel

7.2

Gone Fishin'

4.8

Eve's Bayou

6.3

Martin

7.7

Matlock

7.1

Greenleaf

7.1

Hill Street Blues

7.6

Shark

6.8

A Time for Dancing

6.7

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

5.7

Lap Dance

4.5

Doctor Detroit

5.1

All Things Fall Apart

5.8

Cagney & Lacey

6.9

Chasing Life

7.4

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

6.0

Boston Public

7.7

Tales from the Hood 3

5.2

The George McKenna Story

6.2

Matt Houston

6.2

Battlefield America

4.5

We Need a Little Christmas

6.2

The Tyra Banks Show

4.1

The Women of Brewster Place

6.9

King's Faith

6.6

The Slugger's Wife

3.5

Tamron Hall

5.1

Golden Globe Awards

6.8

St. Denis Medical

7.2

Strong Medicine

7.1

The Josephine Baker Story

6.5

A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

5.1

The Last Letter

3.9

Espionage Tonight

4.0

Fatal Attraction

6.9

And Then There Was You

6.1

Prayer Never Fails

3.4

A Girl Thing

4.2

Tall Tales & Legends

5.4

Sherri

4.2

The Dempsey Sisters

7.0

The Planet of Junior Brown

4.5

Woman in Motion

6.8

The Cosby Mysteries

5.3

The Color of Courage

5.8

Somebody's Child

6.2

Act Like You Love Me

5.4

Promised Land

6.6

Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story

5.5

Mama, I Want to Sing!

8.0

Taking the Heat

4.8

PoliWood

6.5

Deep in My Heart

6.0

24 Hour Love

4.8

Dead Aim

4.3

The Wedding

8.3

State of Emergency

4.0

Lonely Boy

4.0

The Redemption of a Dog

5.5

My Other Mother

8.5

Solace

5.0

Confessions

2.0

Love Songs

8.0

HeartBeat

3.0

Snoops

5.0

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

6.0

Sophie and the Moonhanger

7.0

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

10.0

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

5.0

Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker

2.0

Saturday Night Special

5.0

Trauma Center

5.0

The Ugly Duckling

0.0

Zora is My Name!

0.0

John Henry

0.0

Kings of the Evening

0.0

Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

0.0

Albany Road

0.0

30 Days in Atlanta

0.0

Stompin' at the Savoy

0.0