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Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield

Total Box Office:
 $128.2M
Highest Rated:
80% Eve's Bayou (1997)
Lowest Rated:
0% The Slugger's Wife (1985)
Birthday:
May 6
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
African American leading lady Lynn Whitfield made her film bow in 1983's Dr. Detroit. Three years later, the Louisiana born and bred Whitfield played the title character in the fact-based TV movie Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI, the story of the first black female FBI agent. After gaining recognition for…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Act Like You Love Me
  • Actor
-- 2013
King's Faith
  • Vanessa
$59.3k 2013
The Last Letter
  • Actor
-- 2013
Lonely Boy
  • Dr. Christine Nolan
-- 2013
The North Star
  • Actor
-- 2013
Redemption Of A Dog
  • Actor
-- 2012
8% Battlefield America
  • Actor
$0.2M 2012
All Things Fall Apart
  • Actor
-- 2012
Mama, I Want to Sing!
  • Lillian Winter
-- 2010
March On!... and More Stories About African American History
  • Actor
-- 2010
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
  • Actor
-- 2009
13% The Women
  • Glenda Hill
$26.8M 2008
Confessions of a Call Girl (Confessions)
  • Actor
-- 2007
80% Kings of the Evening
  • Gracie
$98.7k 2007
26% Madea's Family Reunion
  • Victoria
$63.2M 2006
The Cheetah Girls 2
  • Actor
-- 2006
Is Your Mama a Llama?... and More Stories About Growing Up
  • Actor
-- 2004
Redemption - The Stan "Tookie" Williams Story
  • Prof. Barbara Becnel
-- 2003
The Cheetah Girls
  • Dorothea Garibaldi
-- 2003
31% Head of State
  • Debra Lassiter
$37.8M 2003
A Girl Thing
  • Nia Morgan
-- 2001
A Time for Dancing
  • Actor
-- 2001
Love Songs
  • Actor
-- 1999
Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
  • Lori Jackson
-- 1999
Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding
  • Actor
-- 1998
44% Stepmom
  • Dr. Sweikert
-- 1998
Color of Courage
  • Minnie McGhee
-- 1998
Deep In My Heart
  • Actor
-- 1998
80% Eve's Bayou
  • Roz Batiste
-- 1997
The Planet of Junior Brown (Junior's Groove)
  • Actor
-- 1997
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
  • Actor
-- 1997
7% Gone Fishin'
  • Angie
-- 1997
12% A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
  • Brandi Web
-- 1996
State of Emergency
  • Dehlia Johnson
-- 1994
7% In the Army Now
  • Sgt. Ladd
-- 1994
Taking The Heat
  • Carolyn
-- 1993
The Josephine Baker Story
  • Josephine Baker
-- 1990
The Women of Brewster Place
  • Ciel
-- 1989
Dead Aim
  • Sheila Freeman
-- 1988
0% Jaws 4 - The Revenge
  • Louisa
-- 1987
Johnnie Gibson - F.B.I.
  • Johnnie Mae Gibson
-- 1986
The George McKenna Story (Hard Lessons)
  • Actor
-- 1986
76% Silverado
  • Rae
-- 1985
0% The Slugger's Wife
  • Tina Alvarado
-- 1985
40% Doctor Detroit
  • Thelma Cleland
-- 1983
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
  • Actor
-- 1982

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
89% FlashForward
  • Anastasia Markham
2009-2010
Are We There Yet?
  • Actor
2010-2012

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Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman, Carrie Fisher and More Join The Women Opens in new window
September 20, 2007

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