Kasi Lemmons
Acting
Born 1959-02-24
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
51 credits
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Kasi Lemmons (/ˈkeɪsi/; born Karen Diane Lemmons, February 24, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She made her directorial debut with Eve's Bayou (1997), followed by The Caveman's Valentine (2001), Talk to Me (2007), Black Nativity (2013), Harriet (2019), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022). She also directed the Netflix limited series Self Made (2020) and an episode of ABC's Women of the Movement (2022).
She is also known as an actress, having started her career with roles in commercials with McDonald's and Levi's. She made her film debut in Spike Lee's School Daze (1988). She continued acting in Vampire's Kiss (1989), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Candyman (1992). Film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon described her as "an ongoing testament to the creative possibilities of film".
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Filmography
Acting
36 credits
Murder, She Wrote
ER
The Cosby Show
The Equalizer
Walker, Texas Ranger
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Finding Your Roots
Hard Target
Hollywood Black
The Silence of the Lambs
Vampire's Kiss
Candyman
Disconnect
The Projectionist
School Daze
Waist Deep
Gridlock'd
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Zooman
One Perfect Shot
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Afterburn
The Five Heartbeats
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
'Til There Was You
Drop Squad
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Fear of a Black Hat
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Override
11th Victim
Before the Storm
Half the Picture
The Gift of Amazing Grace
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Sisters in Cinema
Directing
10 credits
Marvel's Luke Cage
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Shots Fired
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Eve's Bayou
Harriet
The Caveman's Valentine
Talk to Me
Black Nativity
Dr. Hugo
Writing
5 credits
Other credits
3 credits
Producing
2 credits
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