In the 1990s, Whitfield played the dangerous femme fatale (seductive woman) Brandi in the 1996 romantic sex comedy movie "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate". In the 1998 comedy-drama movie "Stepmom" she played Dr. Sweikert. She later played as Glenda Hill in the 2008 comedy-drama movie "The Women". The 2008 movie was a remake of the 1939 movie with the same name. 