Lynn Whitfield
1 FOLLOWER • 30 CREDITS • FEB 15, 1953 • 71
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
Touched by an Angel
Matlock
Golden Globe Awards
Martin
Without a Trace
Hill Street Blues
Shark
The Tyra Banks Show
Cagney & Lacey
Miami Vice
The Resident
How to Get Away with Murder
Promised Land
St. Denis Medical
Eyes of Wakanda
Tall Tales & Legends
The Cheetah Girls 2
The Retirement Plan
Jaws: The Revenge
Stepmom
Vacation Friends
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Nappily Ever After
The Cheetah Girls
The Rebound
The Cosby Mysteries
State of Emergency
Fatal Attraction
Deep in My Heart
Greenleaf
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