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Lynn Whitfield Believes ‘Aging Is Something to Embrace’: ‘I’m Proud of the Longevity in My Career’
Lynn Whitfield opens up in this exclusive interview with Closer about her role in Albany Road, what she's most proud of and the 'longevity' of her career.
But it’s on TV where her star began to shine most brightly, in The Women of Brewster Place and in the title role of HBO’s 1991 telefilm The Josephine Baker Story, for which she won that year’s Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy Award. More recently, Lynn, 71, has appeared as two fearsome matriarchs — as Lady Mae in the OWN network drama Greenleaf and currently as the revenge-driven Alicia on Showtime’s The Chi. Making the film, I would have to pinch myself, even after 18 hours of hard work, that I got to be in Budapest [Hungary], shooting in beautiful opera houses and getting to be involved in storytelling in the grand Hollywood tradition.
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