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Lynn Whitfield
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Actor Born: May 6, 1953 in Baton Rouge, LA Biography: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 her work in a number of TV dramas, including "The Women of Brewster Place" (1990), Whitfield won an Emmy award and international acclaim for her starring performance in the HBO biopic "The Josephine Baker Story" in 1991. Whitfield subsequently split her efforts between TV and film, doing particularly strong work in "Kasi Lemmons"' much-feted "Eve's Bayou" (1997) as a family matriarch struggling with her husband's infidelity. In 1999, she earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for her work in "Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding", a 1950s drama in which she was cast as the wealthy mother of a young woman... Full Biography
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