Lynn Whitfield
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.
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
Albany Road
The Retirement Plan
We Need a Little Christmas
Vacation Friends
Woman in Motion
Tales from the Hood 3
Tamron Hall
Solace
Nappily Ever After
The Resident
Espionage Tonight
Greenleaf
Prayer Never Fails
Lap Dance
30 Days in Atlanta
How to Get Away with Murder
My Other Mother
Chasing Life
The Ugly Duckling
The Last Letter
The Dempsey Sisters
And Then There Was You
Act Like You Love Me
Fatal Attraction
King's Faith
24 Hour Love
Lonely Boy
The Redemption of a Dog
Somebody's Child
Battlefield America
All Things Fall Apart
Mama, I Want to Sing!
FlashForward
The Rebound
PoliWood
The Women
Kings of the Evening
Shark
The Cheetah Girls 2
Confessions
Madea's Family Reunion
The Tyra Banks Show
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
The Cheetah Girls
Head of State
Without a Trace
A Time for Dancing
A Girl Thing
Boston Public
Strong Medicine
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Love Songs
Dangerous Evidence
Deep in My Heart
Stepmom
The Wedding
Eve's Bayou
The Planet of Junior Brown
Gone Fishin'
Promised Land
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Sophie and the Moonhanger
In the Army Now
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
State of Emergency
The Cosby Mysteries
Taking the Heat
Martin
Stompin' at the Savoy
The Josephine Baker Story
Zora is My Name!
The Women of Brewster Place
The George McKenna Story
HeartBeat
Jaws: The Revenge
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Dead Aim
John Henry
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Matlock
Tall Tales & Legends
Silverado
The Slugger's Wife
Miami Vice
Trauma Center
Doctor Detroit
Matt Houston
Cagney & Lacey
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Hill Street Blues