Lynn Whitfield
Age: N/A | From: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 12
Most Famous Work
Biography
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's dramatic series Greenleaf, for which she won critical acclaim and garnered two NAACP Image Awards and a Gracie Award. She has won a total of seven NAACP Image Awards.
Most Famous Work
How to Get Away with Murder
(2014) Mary Walker
Hill Street Blues
(1981) Jill Thomas
The Resident
(2018) Josephine Okeke
Matt Houston
(1982) Val
Without a Trace
(2002) Paula Van Doren
FlashForward
(2009) Anastasia Markham
Chasing Life
(2014) Karen Callahan
Greenleaf
(2016) Lady Mae GreenleafActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Drisdale | |
| 2022 | Irene | |
| 2021 | Suzanne | |
| Self | ||
| 2020 | Marie Benoît | |
| 2019 | Self - Guest | |
| 2018 | Irene | |
| Paulette Jones | ||
| Josephine Okeke | ||
| 2017 | Sydney Greenstreet | |
| 2016 | Lady Mae Greenleaf | |
| Loral Brown | ||
| 2014 | Momma Pearl | |
| Clara | ||
| Mary Walker | ||
| Mary Jo | ||
| Karen Callahan | ||
| 2013 | Lorraine | |
| Olivia Norman | ||
| Sophia Brent | ||
| Harriett Lofton | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Vanessa | ||
| Cynthia | ||
| Dr. Christine Nolan | ||
| 2012 | Francine | |
| Constance | ||
| Ms. Parker | ||
| 2011 | Bee | |
| Lillian Winter | ||
| 2009 | Anastasia Markham | |
| Laura Reilly | ||
| Self | ||
| 2008 | Glenda Hill | |
| Gracie | ||
| 2006 | N/A | |
| Dorothea Garibaldi | ||
| Dr. Page | ||
| Victoria | ||
| 2005 | N/A | |
| 2004 | Barbara Becnel | |
| 2003 | Dorothea Garibaldi | |
| Debra Lassiter | ||
| 2002 | Paula Van Doren | |
| Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher | ||
| 2001 | Nia Morgan | |
| 2000 | Louanna Harper | |
| 1999 | Herself | |
| Jean Simpson | ||
| Lori Jackson | ||
| Corrine Burrell | ||
| Minnie McGhee | ||
| 1998 | Dr. P. Sweikert | |
| Corinne Coles | ||
| 1997 | Roz Batiste | |
| Mrs. Brown | ||
| Angie | ||
| 1996 | Dr. Serena Hall | |
| N/A | ||
| Brandi | ||
| Sophie | ||
| 1994 | Sgt. Ladd | |
| Bobbie Mallory | ||
| Dehlia Johnson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1993 | Carolyn Hunter | |
| 1992 | N/A | |
| Esther | ||
| 1991 | N/A | |
| Josephine Baker | ||
| 1990 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1989 | Ciel | |
| 1988 | Bobbie Maxwell | |
| Dr. Cory Banks | ||
| 1987 | Louisa | |
| Self | ||
| Sheila Freeman | ||
| 1986 | Pollie Ann | |
| Johnnie Mae Gibson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1985 | Pollie Ann | |
| Rae | ||
| Tina Alvarado | ||
| 1984 | N/A | |
| 1983 | N/A | |
| Thelma Cleland | ||
| 1982 | Val | |
| N/A | ||
| Woman in bath | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| Jill Thomas | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
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|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Thanks | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
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| 2013 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |