Lynne Thigpen

Lynne Thigpen

Birthday: 1948-12-22

Place of Birth: Joliet, Illinois, USA

Biography: Cherlynne Theresa 'Lynne' Thigpen (December 22, 1948 – March 12, 2003) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was known for her roles as The Chief of ACME Crimenet on the game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and various spinoffs, Luna (The Moon) on the Playhouse Disney children's series Bear in the Big Blue House, and Ella Farmer on The District (2000–2003). For her varied television work, she was nominated for six Daytime Emmy Awards and she also won a Tony Award in 1997 for portraying Dr. Judith Kaufman in An American Daughter.

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The Boys Next Door
The Boys Next Door

Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due...

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Novocaine
Novocaine

A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs...

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Article 99
Article 99

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. ...

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Naked in New York
Naked in New York

Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joan...

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Bob Roberts
Bob Roberts

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickl...

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The Insider
The Insider

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Mi...

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Tootsie
Tootsie

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...

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Godspell
Godspell

In modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn f...

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Chance of a Lifetime
Chance of a Lifetime

Irreverent freelance investigative reporter Tom Maguire hits rock bottom when bigot editor in chief ...

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Fol-de-Rol
Fol-de-Rol

A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The speci...

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Bear in the Big Blue House: A Berry Bear Christmas
Bear in the Big Blue House: A Berry Bear Christmas

The winter holidays find Bear and his friends planning a big celebration. They're all getting ready ...

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Rockabye
Rockabye

A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young so...

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Night Ride Home
Night Ride Home

When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each fa...

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Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestig...

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Blankman
Blankman

Darryl is a childlike man with a genius for inventing various gadgets out of junk. When he stumbles ...

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Lean On Me
Lean On Me

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing ...

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Random Hearts
Random Hearts

After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each o...

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Anger Management
Anger Management

After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave B...

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Private Affairs
Private Affairs

A departure from most ABC Afterschool Specials, this one focuses on Madeline Green, a teenage girl w...

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Separate But Equal
Separate But Equal

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroye...

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The Warriors
The Warriors

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and tak...

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Bear in the Big Blue House: Everybody's Special
Bear in the Big Blue House: Everybody's Special

Join Bear and friends for fun and humorous learning...

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Bear in the Big Blue House - Party Time with Bear
Bear in the Big Blue House - Party Time with Bear

Let your child learn, explore and have fun with this award-winning series. Celebrate good times wit...

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Just Cause
Just Cause

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...

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Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire

Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former ...

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Tintypes
Tintypes

Debuting on Broadway in 1980, Tintypes is a musical review featuring songs from the early twentieth ...

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Pretty Poison
Pretty Poison

A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the t...

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The Paper
The Paper

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long ho...

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Fear Stalk
Fear Stalk

A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse....

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Impulse
Impulse

A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relation...

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Working
Working

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing th...

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Flanagan
Flanagan

Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shak...

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Shaft
Shaft

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t...

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An American Daughter
An American Daughter

A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a backgro...

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When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate
When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate

This lively, spirit-lifting musical celebrates the sheer joy -- and survival -- of black music, song...

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Sweet Liberty
Sweet Liberty

Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hol...

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Bicentennial Man
Bicentennial Man

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the ...

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Running on Empty
Running on Empty

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixti...

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Hello Again
Hello Again

A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister...

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A Mother's Instinct
A Mother's Instinct

Holly Mitchell a divorcee, remarries widower, Carl Gibbons, the father of two small boys. When she b...

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Girlfriend
Girlfriend

Two teenage girls, one black and one white, become friends while working on a mural to honor a black...

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