Lynn Whitfield
Birthday: 1953-02-15 | Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USALynn 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.
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Acting
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as Paula Henderson
as Drisdale
as Irene
as Self
as Suzanne
as Marie Benoît
as Irene
as Paulette Jones
as Sydney Greenstreet
as Lady Mae Greenleaf
as Loral Brown
as Clara
as Mary Jo
as Narrator (voice)
as Cynthia
as Dr. Christine Nolan
as Harriett Lofton
as Lorraine
as Olivia Norman
as Sophia Brent
as Vanessa
as Constance
as Ms. Parker
as Bee
as Lillian Winter
as Laura Reilly
as Gracie
as Victoria
