Lynn Whitfield
Birthday
1953/02/15 (71 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Also know as
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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-televisi...Read more
Acting
(1987) Jaws: The Revenge
as Louisa
(1989) The Women of Brewster Place
as Ciel
(1983) Doctor Detroit
as Thelma Cleland
(2014) The Ugly Duckling
as Narrator (voice)
(2009) The Rebound
as Laura Reilly
(1985) Silverado
as Rae
(2004) Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
as Barbara Becnel
(2003) The Cheetah Girls
as Dorothea Garibaldi
(1997) Gone Fishin'
as Angie
(2003) Head of State
as Debra Lassiter
(1994) In the Army Now
as Sgt. Ladd
(1996) A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
as Brandi
(1988) The George McKenna Story
as Bobbie Maxwell
(1994) Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
as Bobbie Mallory
(2011) All Things Fall Apart
as Bee
(1997) Eve's Bayou
as Roz Batiste
(2002) A Time for Dancing
as Linda Derricks, the Dance Teacher
(1990) Zora is My Name!
as ---
(2006) Madea's Family Reunion
as Victoria
(1986) John Henry
as Pollie Ann
(2011) Mama, I Want to Sing!
as Lillian Winter
(1991) The Josephine Baker Story
as Josephine Baker
(1999) Deep in My Heart
as Corrine Burrell
(2008) Kings of the Evening
as Gracie
(2013) King's Faith
as Vanessa
(2023) The Retirement Plan
as Drisdale
(1999) The Color of Courage
as Minnie McGhee
(1994) State of Emergency
as Dehlia Johnson
(2013) Lonely Boy
as Dr. Christine Nolan
(1991) A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
as ---
(2013) 24 Hour Love
as Cynthia
(2012) Somebody's Child
as Constance
(1999) Dangerous Evidence
as Lori Jackson
(2013) The Last Letter
as Lorraine
(1987) The Making of Jaws The Revenge
as Self
(1987) Dead Aim
as Sheila Freeman
(2012) The Redemption of a Dog
as Francine
(2013) And Then There Was You
as Sophia Brent
(1993) Taking the Heat
as Carolyn Hunter
(2013) The Dempsey Sisters
as Olivia Norman
(1998) The Wedding
as Corinne Coles
(2013) Act Like You Love Me
as Harriett Lofton
(2022) We Need a Little Christmas
as Irene
(1997) The Planet of Junior Brown
as Mrs. Brown
(1985) The Slugger's Wife
as Tina Alvarado
(2014) My Other Mother
as Mary Jo
(2024) Albany Road
as Paula Henderson
(2016) Prayer Never Fails
as Loral Brown
(2012) Battlefield America
as Ms. Parker
(1996) Sophie and the Moonhanger
as Sophie
(1982) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
as Woman in bath
(2006) The Cheetah Girls 2
as Dorothea Garibaldi
(2017) Espionage Tonight
as Sydney Greenstreet
(2018) Nappily Ever After
as Paulette Jones
(2018) Solace
as Irene
(2014) 30 Days in Atlanta
as Clara
(1986) Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
as Johnnie Mae Gibson
(2008) The Women
as Glenda Hill
(2001) A Girl Thing
as Nia Morgan
(2014) Lap Dance
as Momma Pearl
(2006) Confessions
as Dr. Page
(1998) Stepmom
as Dr. P. Sweikert
(1992) Stompin' at the Savoy
as Esther
(1999) Love Songs
as Jean Simpson
(1999) Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
as Herself
(2020) Tales from the Hood 3
as Marie Benoît
(2021) Woman in Motion
as Self
(2021) Vacation Friends
as Suzanne
(2009) PoliWood
as Self
(2000) Boston Public
as Louanna Harper
(1992) Martin
as Ellen
(2006) Shark
as ---
(1986) Matlock
as ---
(1984) Miami Vice
as ---
(2005) The Tyra Banks Show
as ---
(2019) Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
(1981) Hill Street Blues
as ---
(2002) Without a Trace
as Paula Van Doren
(1982) Cagney & Lacey
as ---
(1996) Saturday Night Special
as ---
(1994) The Cosby Mysteries
as ---
(2009) FlashForward
as Anastasia Markham
(1983) Trauma Center
as ---
(1988) HeartBeat
as Dr. Cory Banks
(2014) How to Get Away with Murder
as Mary Walker
(2014) Chasing Life
as Karen Callahan
(2016) Greenleaf
as Lady Mae Greenleaf
(1981) Hill Street Blues
as Jill Thomas
(1982) Matt Houston
as Val
(1996) Promised Land
as Dr. Serena Hall
(2013) Fatal Attraction
as Narrator (voice)
(1985) Tall Tales & Legends
as Pollie Ann
(2018) The Resident
as Josephine Okeke
(2000) Strong Medicine
as Dr. Marshall
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Dr. Serena Hall
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nomine
(1989) Snoops
as Denise Kendall
(2024) St. Denis Medical
as Barb
(2018) The Chi
as Alicia