Lynn Whitfield
Known For
Acting
Born
1953-02-15 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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.
Most Known For
How to Get Away with Murder
as Mary Walker
The Resident
as Josephine Okeke
Miami Vice
as Odette Ribaud
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
as Jill Thomas
St. Elsewhere
as Annie Callan
Sherri
as Self - Guest
Without a Trace
as Paula Van Doren
Strong Medicine
as Dr. Marshall
The Chi
as Alicia
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
Touched by an Angel
as Dr. Serena Hall
Matlock
as Angela Page
Boston Public
as Louanna Harper
Cagney & Lacey
Martin
as Ellen
The Tyra Banks Show
FlashForward
as Anastasia Markham
Greenleaf
as Lady Mae Greenleaf