# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynn-whitfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:27:01.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynn-whitfield"
name: "Lynn Whitfield"
slug: "lynn-whitfield"
description: "Lynn Whitfield is an American actress. She began her acting career in television and theatre before progressing to supporting roles in film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her breakout performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical film The Josephine Baker Story (1991)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lynn_Whitfield_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.84
  momentum:             2.091018594405821
  historical:           19.104088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MsLynnWhitfield"
    handle:    "MsLynnWhitfield"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mslynnwhitfield/"
    handle:    "mslynnwhitfield"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005551/"
    handle:    "nm0005551"
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    title: "琳恩·惠特菲尔德"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynn Whitfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynn Whitfield"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "린 휫필드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynn Whitfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уитфилд, Линн"
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    title: "لن وائٹ فیلڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynn Whitfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16217"
    title: "Lynn Whitfield"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump