Lynn Whitfield est l'ainee des quatre enfants du dentiste Valerian Smith et sa femme Jean Butler, l'agent d'une compagnie financiere. Elle est initiee a l'art dramatique par son pere qui est l'un des fondateurs du theatre municipal de Baton Rouge. Lynn fait ses etudes a l'Universite Howard. Sa premiere experience theatrale a lieu au sein de Black Repertory Company de Washington, D.C dont elle epouse le directeur artistique Vantile Whitfield en 1974. Elle va ensuite s'installer a New York et entamer une carriere Off-Broadway. Elle joue entre autres dans The Great Macdaddy et Showdown avant d'etre acclamee aux cotes de Alfre Woodard dans For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf en 1977.En 1981, elle apparait sous les traits de Jill Thomas dans la serie televisee Capitaine Furillo diffusee sur le reseau NBC. Elle obtient le role de Thelma Cleland dans Doctor Detroit en 1983, puis, enchaine avec Match a deux, Silverado et Johnnie Mae Gibson entre 1985 et 1986. In parallel, she appeared on television in The George McKenna Story (1986), Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI (1986) Tall Tales and Legends (1987), HeartBeat (1988) et The Women of Brewster Place (1989). Un grand succes lui vient apres le role de Josephine Baker, artiste et resistante de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans The Josephine Baker Story en 1991.
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