Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield

Birthday: 1953-02-15

Place of birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0005551

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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynn Whitfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Played in movies:

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

Score: 10.0

My Other Mother

Score: 8.5

The Wedding

Score: 8.3

Love Songs

Score: 8.0

Nappily Ever After

Score: 7.2

Stepmom

Score: 7.2

Vacation Friends

Score: 7.0

Sophie and the Moonhanger

Score: 7.0

The Dempsey Sisters

Score: 7.0

Silverado

Score: 7.0

King's Faith

Score: 6.9

The Women of Brewster Place

Score: 6.9

Woman in Motion

Score: 6.8

A Time for Dancing

Score: 6.7

Mama, I Want to Sing!

Score: 6.6

The Rebound

Score: 6.5

PoliWood

Score: 6.5

Eve's Bayou

Score: 6.4

The Cheetah Girls 2

Score: 6.3

Madea's Family Reunion

Score: 6.3

We Need a Little Christmas

Score: 6.2

The George McKenna Story

Score: 6.2

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

Score: 6.0

Deep in My Heart

Score: 6.0

The Josephine Baker Story

Score: 6.0

The Cheetah Girls

Score: 6.0

The Retirement Plan

Score: 6.0

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Score: 5.9

All Things Fall Apart

Score: 5.8

The Color of Courage

Score: 5.7

And Then There Was You

Score: 5.6

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Score: 5.6

Head of State

Score: 5.6

The Redemption of a Dog

Score: 5.5

Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story

Score: 5.5

Act Like You Love Me

Score: 5.4

Somebody's Child

Score: 5.3

Tales from the Hood 3

Score: 5.2

The Women

Score: 5.1

A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

Score: 5.1

Doctor Detroit

Score: 5.1

In the Army Now

Score: 5.1

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

Score: 5.0

Gone Fishin'

Score: 4.8

Taking the Heat

Score: 4.8

24 Hour Love

Score: 4.8

Solace

Score: 4.7

Battlefield America

Score: 4.4

Lonely Boy

Score: 4.3

Lap Dance

Score: 4.3

Dead Aim

Score: 4.3

Jaws: The Revenge

Score: 4.1

The Planet of Junior Brown

Score: 4.0

State of Emergency

Score: 4.0

A Girl Thing

Score: 3.8

The Last Letter

Score: 3.6

Espionage Tonight

Score: 3.4

Prayer Never Fails

Score: 3.4

The Slugger's Wife

Score: 3.4

Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker

Score: 2.0

Confessions

Score: 1.7

Help

Score: 0.0

Stompin' at the Savoy

Score: 0.0

30 Days in Atlanta

Score: 0.0

Albany Road

Score: 0.0

Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

Score: 0.0

Kings of the Evening

Score: 0.0

John Henry

Score: 0.0

Zora is My Name!

Score: 0.0

The Ugly Duckling

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Resident

Score: 8.4

The Chi

Score: 7.9

How to Get Away with Murder

Score: 7.8

Martin

Score: 7.6

Hill Street Blues

Score: 7.6

Hill Street Blues

Score: 7.6

Boston Public

Score: 7.6

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Chasing Life

Score: 7.4

Without a Trace

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

Matlock

Score: 7.1

Strong Medicine

Score: 7.1

Greenleaf

Score: 7.1

FlashForward

Score: 7.0

Cagney & Lacey

Score: 7.0

St. Denis Medical

Score: 6.9

Fatal Attraction

Score: 6.9

Shark

Score: 6.8

Matt Houston

Score: 6.2

Promised Land

Score: 6.1

Eyes of Wakanda

Score: 5.9

Tall Tales & Legends

Score: 5.4

The Cosby Mysteries

Score: 5.3

Tamron Hall

Score: 5.1

Snoops

Score: 5.0

Trauma Center

Score: 5.0

Saturday Night Special

Score: 5.0

The Tyra Banks Show

Score: 4.8

Sherri

Score: 3.8

HeartBeat

Score: 3.0