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Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield

Birthday: 1953-05-06 | Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lynn Whitfield (born May 6, 1953) is an American actress. Whitfield 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), The Cheetah Girls (2003), Madea's Family Reunion (2006), and The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynn Whitfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lynn Whitfield (born May 6, 1953) is an American actress. Whitfield 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), The Cheetah Girls (2003), Madea's Family Reunion (2006), and The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynn Whitfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Woman in Motion

as    Self

2021
Vacation Friends

as    Suzanne

2020
Tales from the Hood 3

as    Marie Benoît

2018
Nappily Ever After

as    Paulette Jones

2017
Espionage Tonight

as    Sydney Greenstreet

2016
Greenleaf

as    Lady Mae Greenleaf

2016
Prayer Never Fails

as    Loral Brown

2014
30 Days in Atlanta

as    Clara

2014
My Other Mother

as    Mary Jo

2013
24 Hour Love

as    Cynthia

2013
Lonely Boy

as    Dr. Christine Nolan

2013
The Last Letter

as    Lorraine

2013
The Dempsey Sisters

as    Olivia Norman

2013
And Then There Was You

as    Sophia Brent

2012
Battlefield America

as    Ms. Parker

2011
All Things Fall Apart

as    Bee

2009
The Rebound

as    Laura Reilly

2006
The Cheetah Girls 2

as    Dorothea Garibaldi

2006
Confessions

as    Dr. Page

2006
Madea's Family Reunion

as    Victoria

2004
2003
Head of State

as    Debra Lassiter

2003
The Cheetah Girls

as    Dorothea Garibaldi

1998
The Wedding

as    Corinne Coles

1998
Stepmom

as    Dr. P. Sweikert

1997
Eve's Bayou

as    Roz Batiste

1996
1994
In the Army Now

as    Sgt. Ladd