Lynn Whitfield
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1953-02-15
- Lieu de naissance:
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Biographie
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynn Whitfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmographie
Strung
Eyes of Wakanda
Albany Road
St. Denis Medical
Une Retraite d'Enfer
We Need a Little Christmas
Sherri
Nos pires amis
Woman in Motion
Tales from the Hood 3
The Tamron Hall Show
Solace
Une femme de tête
The Resident
The Chi
Espionage Tonight
Steve
Greenleaf
Prayer Never Fails
Fear Files
Lap Dance
30 Days in Atlanta
The Fright Night Files
Murder
My Other Mother
Chasing Life
The Ugly Duckling
The Last Letter
The Dempsey Sisters
And Then There Was You
Amour ou mensonges
Fatal Attraction
King's Faith
24 Hour Love
Lonely Boy
The Redemption of a Dog
Somebody's Child
Dance Battle America
Itinéraire manqué
Mama, I Want to Sing!
FlashForward
Mon babysitter
PoliWood
The Women
Kings of the Evening
Shark
Les Cheetah Girls 2
Confessions
Affaire de femmes
The Tyra Banks Show
Rédemption
Les Cheetah Girls
Président par accident
FBI : Portés Disparus
A Time for Dancing
A Girl Thing
Boston Public
Strong Medicine (La Vie avant tout)
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Love Songs
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
Deep in My Heart
La Couleur du courage
Ma meilleure ennemie
The Wedding
Le Secret du bayou
The Planet of Junior Brown
Pêche Party
Promised Land
Saturday Night Special
De l'Amour à la Haine
Sophie and the Moonhanger
The Cosby Mysteries
Les Anges du bonheur
En avant, les recrues !
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
State of Emergency
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Taking the Heat
Martin
Stompin' at the Savoy
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
The Josephine Baker Story
Zora is My Name!
Snoops
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place
The George McKenna Story
HeartBeat
Les Dents de la mer 4 : La Revanche
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Dead Aim
John Henry
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Matlock
Tall Tales & Legends
Silverado
The Slugger's Wife
Deux Flics à Miami
Trauma Center
Doctor Detroit
St. Elsewhere
Matt Houston
Cagney et Lacey
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
American Playhouse
Capitaine Furillo
Golden Globe Awards
The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen