Lynne Thigpen

Biography: American actress Lynne Thigpen was first seen on the New York stage in 1975's The Night That Made America Famous. Unfortunately, it didn't make her famous (not overnight, anyway), but she stuck with her craft, and not long thereafter won a Theatre World Award for her performance in Tintypes. Ms. Thigpen was also in films, including Warriors (1979), Godspell (1981), Tootsie (1981), Lean on Me (1985) and Impulse (1988). By the early '90s, Thigpen was well known to TV viewers of all age ranges. To the preteens, she was familiar for her regular work as the Chief in PBS' Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? To teens and older viewers, Thigpen was unforgettable as nurse Grace Keefer, a certified "looney tune" who kidnapped the child of the cop who killed her drug-addict son on the ABC daytimer All My Children.