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Birthday: May 06, 1953
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), ...more
- 1991
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Best Actress
- The Josephine Baker Story
- win
- 2008
- The Women
- Glenda Hill
- 2006
- Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion
- Victoria
- 2003
- Head of State
- Debra Lassiter
- 2003
- The Cheetah Girls
- Dorothea Garibaldi
- 2003
- Redemption
- Prof. Barbara Becnel
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