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 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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5107 |
| Birthday | 1953-02-15 |
| Place of Birth | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA |
| Also Known As |
1987
Jaws: The Revenge
4.1/1168
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Mi...
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Jaws: The Revenge
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
6.684/19
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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The Women of Brewster Place
1983
Doctor Detroit
5.08/75
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago....
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Doctor Detroit
2014
The Ugly Duckling
0/0
By Hans Christian Andersen; Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; Narrated by Lynn Whitfield Only a mother could love this ugliest of ducklings who is teased...
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The Ugly Duckling
2009
The Rebound
6.501/955
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married...
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The Rebound
1985
Silverado
6.941/806
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...
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Silverado
2004
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
6.025/59
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term...
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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2003
The Cheetah Girls
6.049/490
A four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan High School for the Performing Arts and try to become the first freshmen to wi...
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The Cheetah Girls
1997
Gone Fishin'
4.895/162
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
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Gone Fishin'
2003
Head of State
5.57/314
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman as...
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Head of State
1994
In the Army Now
5.084/225
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no soo...
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In the Army Now
1996
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
5.634/93
Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets...
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A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
1988
The George McKenna Story
6.333/33
Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore ed...
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The George McKenna Story
1994
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
6.125/8
When a couple breaks up after four years together, the man is told that the son he has raised as his own isn't his biological one. He must fight to ke...
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Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
2011
All Things Fall Apart
5.8/62
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his pro...
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All Things Fall Apart
1997
Eve's Bayou
6.408/152
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve...
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Eve's Bayou
2002
A Time for Dancing
6.686/97
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
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A Time for Dancing
1990
Zora is My Name!
10/1
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portr...
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Zora is My Name!
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
6.382/217
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her...
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Madea's Family Reunion
1986
John Henry
10/1
The story follow legendary railroad worker John Henry during the late 19th century.
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John Henry
2011
Mama, I Want to Sing!
6.6/5
Preacher's daughter Amara Winter sings in the church choir before being discovered by a well-established musician. She soon rises to international fam...
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Mama, I Want to Sing!
1991
The Josephine Baker Story
5.833/15
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a...
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The Josephine Baker Story
1999
Deep in My Heart
6.75/4
A black woma is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.
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Deep in My Heart
2008
Kings of the Evening
0/0
Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the back-breaking injustice of the chain gang...
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Kings of the Evening
2013
King's Faith
7/20
After Brendan King's life spiraled to rock bottom, the teen found hope in a new relationship with Christ while serving time in a juvenile penitentiary...
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King's Faith
2023
The Retirement Plan
5.946/317
When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can he...
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The Retirement Plan
1999
The Color of Courage
6/7
Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose...
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The Color of Courage
1994
State of Emergency
5.667/3
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an u...
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State of Emergency
2013
Lonely Boy
4.6/5
While seeking answers to a past he cannot remember, a schizophrenic must find the strength to control his mental illness as he tries to build relation...
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Lonely Boy
1991
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
5.3/10
Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on B...
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A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
2013
24 Hour Love
4.9/4
The greatest feeling in the world is when you learn to love! Follow the stories of seven everyday people as they experience laughter, life and matters...
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24 Hour Love
2012
Somebody's Child
5.3/6
A woman (Lynn Whitfield) dying of kidney disease learns that God works in mysterious ways after convincing her son (Michael Jai White) to help a repen...
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Somebody's Child
1999
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
8/1
The Lori Jackson Story - A civil rights campaigner, Lori Jackson, champions the the cause of a black marine convicted of rape, as she thinks he is in...
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Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
2013
The Last Letter
3.5/11
Catharine Wright struggles with a debilitating sleep disorder. Her husband Michael struggles to cope when their new born son lay in the wake.
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The Last Letter
1987
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
6/1
A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.
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The Making of Jaws The Revenge
2012
The Redemption of a Dog
5.5/2
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The Redemption of a Dog
1987
Dead Aim
3.75/4
Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what the cost. While investigating the mysterious suic...
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Dead Aim
2013
And Then There Was You
5.3/9
Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she...
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And Then There Was You
1993
Taking the Heat
5/6
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but...
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Taking the Heat
2013
The Dempsey Sisters
7/6
Three siblings return to their musical roots, agreeing to let their brother manage their family band.
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The Dempsey Sisters
1998
The Wedding
8.3/3
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who o...
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The Wedding
2013
Act Like You Love Me
5.4/5
Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. However, Kelly has struggled to find time for love...
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Act Like You Love Me
2022
We Need a Little Christmas
6.2/20
Julie is adjusting to being a single mother to a grieving child while facing her first Christmas without her husband when she develops an unexpected f...
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We Need a Little Christmas
1997
The Planet of Junior Brown
4.5/8
Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.
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The Planet of Junior Brown
1985
The Slugger's Wife
3.583/18
Darryl Palmer is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer. After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an em...
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The Slugger's Wife
2014
My Other Mother
8.5/2
When gruff and independent Candy meets her angry and stubborn birth mother, can the two open their hearts to each other?
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My Other Mother
2024
Albany Road
4.286/7
On her way to the most important meeting of her career, severe weather forces a New York executive to share a rental car with her former nemesis, her...
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Albany Road
2016
Prayer Never Fails
3.4/7
When a high school basketball coach is fired for praying with one of his players, he follows God's calling and hires an agnostic, gambling lawyer to f...
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Prayer Never Fails
2012
Battlefield America
4.5/23
A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.
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Battlefield America
1996
Sophie and the Moonhanger
8.5/2
A woman pits herself against her husband and his Ku Klux Klan member friends when she learns that they are planning an attack against her black maid a...
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Sophie and the Moonhanger
1982
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
8.5/2
The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning landmark...
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
2006
The Cheetah Girls 2
6.3/413
Best friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to...
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The Cheetah Girls 2
2017
Espionage Tonight
3.4/10
In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished fro...
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Espionage Tonight
2018
Nappily Ever After
7.203/823
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.
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Nappily Ever After
2018
Solace
4.7/3
Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a...
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Solace
2014
30 Days in Atlanta
5/1
Akpos wins a 30-day holiday for two to Atlanta, Georgia. He takes his cousin (Richard), an IT specialist on the all- expense paid trip. Akpos flung hi...
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30 Days in Atlanta
1986
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
6.5/2
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
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Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
2008
The Women
5.123/361
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we...
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The Women
2014
Lap Dance
4.2/79
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple ma...
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Lap Dance
2006
Confessions
1.7/3
Call girl by day, housewife by night, Tory seeks to put a stop to her secret occupation to save her family and herself, in this sexual thriller.
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Confessions
1998
Stepmom
7.153/1530
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother t...
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Stepmom
1992
Stompin' at the Savoy
0/0
As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming...
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Stompin' at the Savoy
1999
Love Songs
8.667/3
Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of lo...
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Love Songs
1999
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
4.667/3
From world-renowned performer of the Jazz Age, to WWII spy, to civil rights activist – a look into the iconic life and legacy of Josephine Baker, narr...
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Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
2020
Tales from the Hood 3
5.1/50
Following the franchise's cult classic roots, this new anthology featuring Tony Todd and Lynn Whitfield will scare and thrill with its horrifying twis...
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Tales from the Hood 3
2021
Woman in Motion
6.8/6
Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing a...
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Woman in Motion
2021
Vacation Friends
7.039/876
When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met...
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Vacation Friends
2009
PoliWood
6.5/4
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
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PoliWood
2026
Strung
0/0
A talented violinist whose prestigious new role as a music tutor for an enigmatic, elite family spirals into a psychological battle for her safety and...
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Strung
2014
The Fright Night Files
4/4
Three stories told by a lady fortune teller.
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