From notable Louisiana southern aristocracy, leading lady Lynn Whitfield was born in 1953, the eldest of four children and a third-generation BFA graduate from Howard University. Her dentist father was quite instrumental in developing Lynn's initial interest in acting as he was a prime figure in forming community theater in her native Baton Rouge.First garnering attention on the stage by studying and performing with the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C, she married one of the compa ...[Read Story]