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With Essence Atkins, Lynn Whitfield, Jasmine Guy, Angie Stone.
[28] From 1990 to 1992, she was married to director Brian Gibson and had a daughter, Grace. She continued her career, starring in the made for television movies, include A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991); Stompin' at the Savoy (1992) with Vanessa L. Williams, Jasmine Guy, and Vanessa Bell Calloway; Taking the Heat (1993) with Tony Goldwyn; State of Emergency (1994) with Joe Mantegna; Sophie and the Moonhanger (1996); The Wedding (1998) as Halle Berry's mother; The Color of Courage (1998) alongside Linda Hamilton; and Deep in My Heart (1999) opposite Anne Bancroft.
In 2020, she was cast in the upcoming comedy film Vacation Friends.
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She later co-starred in films The Slugger's Wife, Silverado, and Jaws: The Revenge. The 66 years old actress, Lynn Whittfield is currently a divorced woman. She also starred in the television films The George McKenna Story opposite Denzel Washington, Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI as a title character, and in the ABC miniseries The Women of Brewster Place alongside Oprah Winfrey and Cicely Tyson. [2004], View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, 0W0003_Halle Berry and other female stars, Top 25 Best Guest Stars/Cameos on Martin (1992).
We and other data collection technologies to provide the best experience for our customers. ', Previously, Whitney had said on Instagram that her mother "often takes personal vacations without letting the family know and we respect that side of her.".
[6] In his review, Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly said: "Whitfield is exceptionally good as the legendary singer-dancer who came to prominence in the ’20s for her throaty singing and her notorious "banana dance" – a wiggly little number executed while wearing nothing except a skirt of real bananas.
Being in her mid-60s, she still looks younger than her exact age.
She is of African American and Native American descent, specifically Cherokee.First garnering attention on the stage by studying and performing with the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C, she married one of the company's co-founders and pioneers of black theatre, playwright/director/actor Vantile Whitfield in 1974.
[21][22] One critic stated "Whitfield has the imperious aura of a grand soap opera diva in the tradition of Joan Collins. ET) on Bravo. Likewise, she belongs to Afro-American ethnicity and holds an American nationality.
In the HBO biopic The Josephine Baker Story (1991), Lynn played the legendary entertainer with Emmy-winning gusto, a role that stretched her to the limits as she played the role from age 18 to 68.
With roots leading back to Louisiana southern aristocracy, lovely leading lady Lynn Whitfield was born in 1953, the eldest of four children and a third-generation BFA graduate from Howard University.
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