Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
15 Feb, 1953 (72 years old)

Lynn Whitfield

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.

Known For

We Need a Little Christmas
HD
84 min 2022

We Need a Little Christmas

TV Movie
Greenleaf
HD
2016

Greenleaf

Drama
My Other Mother
HD
86 min 2014

My Other Mother

Drama
And Then There Was You
HD
99 min 2013

And Then There Was You

Drama
King's Faith
HD
108 min 2013

King's Faith

Drama
Somebody's Child
HD
88 min 2012

Somebody's Child

Drama

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