Lynn Whitfield

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2024). Lynn Whitfield is the 8,974th most popular actor (down from 8,185th in 2024), the 13,579th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,113th in 2019) and the 4,164th most popular American Actor.