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Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield

American actress
May 6, 1953 (70 years old)
Can. 2023. Mores comedy by Tim Brown with Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Ron Perlman. Threatened with death by criminals, a young American single mother enlists the help of her father, who has retired to the Cayman Islands.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 2021. Comedy by Clay Tarver with John Cena, Meredith Hagner, Lil Rel Howery. An African-American construction contractor and his fiancée are confronted with the arrival of an extravagant, vulgar, and uninhibited white couple.
U.S. 2011. Musical by Charles Randolph-Wright with Ciara, Lynn Whitfield, Hill Harper. Discovered by a famous musician, the daughter of a pastor begins a brilliant career as a pop singer.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2009. Sentimental comedy by Bart Freundlich with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Lynn Whitfield. Deceived by her husband, a forty-something mother moves to New York, where she falls in love with her young babysitter, himself shaken by the loss of his French wife.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Tyler Perry with Tyler Perry, Rochelle Aytes, Lisa Arrindell. An African-American matriarch tries to deal with the emotional problems of her two nieces while planning a big family party.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 2004. Biography by Vondie Curtis-Hall with Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, CCH Pounder. A journalist befriends a reformed former gang leader sentenced to death who has become a children's book author.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2003. Comedy by Chris Rock with Chris Rock, Dylan Baker, Lynn Whitfield. An awkward African-American city councilman is nominated by his party as a presidential candidate.
Runtime: 95 min.

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U.S. 1999. Court drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Lynn Whitfield, Richard Yearwood, Richard Lineback. An activist comes to the aid of a black serviceman sentenced to thirty years in prison for allegedly raping a white woman.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1999. Social drama by Lee Rose with Linda Hamilton, Lynn Whitfield, Bruce Greenwood. In 1944 in an all-white suburb, a housewife befriends her new Black neighbours whom the locals reject.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1999. Melodrama by Anita W. Addison with Anne Bancroft, Gloria Reuben, Lynn Whitfield. An African-American woman who was given up for adoption when she was born thirty-four years ago discovers that her birth mother is White.
U.S. 1998. Melodrama by Charles Burnett with Halle Berry, Eric Thal, Lynn Whitfield. In 1953, while preparing to marry a White musician, an African-American woman is courted by a rich Black man.
Runtime: 180 min.
U.S. 1997. Psychological drama by Kasi Lemmons with Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield.
Can. 1997. Dramatic comedy by Clement Virgo with Martin Villafana, Lynn Whitfield, Rainbow Sun Francks. The friendship between an orphan living on the street and an obese teenager raised by a protective mother.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1993. Drama by Lesli Linka Glatter with Joe Mantegna, Lynn Whitfield, Melinda Dillon. A doctor violates the rules of the hospital where he works in order to provide emergency treatment to a patient.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1993. Police comedy by Tom Mankiewicz with Tony Goldwyn, Lynn Whitfield, Joe Grifasi. In New York, a police officer falls in love with a witness in a murder case.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1990. Biography by Brian Gibson with Lynn Whitfield, Ruben Blades, David Dukes. The great moments of the career of the star dancer-singer Josephine Baker.
Runtime: 130 min.
U.S. 1986. Crime drama by Bill Duke with Lynn Whitfield, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Richard Lawson. The sentimental and professional struggles of a young woman who becomes an FBI agent.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1986. Social drama by Eric Laneuville with Denzel Washington, Lynn Whitfield, Richard Masur. The new principal of a mostly Black school manages to instill a sense of discipline among students.
Runtime: 100 min.

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