Kasi Lemmons
- Acting
- February 24, 1959 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography
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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kasi Lemmons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Projectionist · Ramona
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies · Self
- Hollywood Black · Self
- Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody · Director, Executive producer
- One Perfect Shot · Self
- Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones · Writer
- Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker · Director, Executive producer
- Harriet · Director, Screenplay
- Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' · Self
- Beauty · Executive producer
- Half the Picture · Self
- Shots Fired · Director
- Marvel's Luke Cage · Director
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Black Nativity · Director, Writer
- Disconnect · Roberta Washington
- Finding Your Roots · Self
- Talk to Me · Director
- Waist Deep · Angry Black Woman
- Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos · Self
- Sisters in Cinema · Self
- Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' · Self
- The Caveman's Valentine · Director
- Eve's Bayou · Writer, Director
- 'Til There Was You · Angenelle
- Gridlock'd · Madonna
- Dr. Hugo · Director, Writer
- Zooman · Grace
- Drop Squad · June Vanderpool
- Override · Clerk
- ER · Gamma Knife Tech
- Fear of a Black Hat · Nina Blackburn
- Hard Target · Det. Marie Mitchell
- Walker, Texas Ranger · Diane Warren
- Candyman · Bernadette Walsh
- Afterburn · Carol North
- Before the Storm · Alex Robbins
- The Five Heartbeats · Cookie
- The Silence of the Lambs · Ardelia Mapp
- The Great Los Angeles Earthquake · Melanie Bryant
- The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson · Rachel
- Vampire's Kiss · Jackie
- A Man Called Hawk
- School Daze · Perry
- The Gift of Amazing Grace · Subaya
- The Equalizer · Zandili
- Murder, She Wrote · Paula Raynor
- The Cosby Show · Miss McKegney
- 11th Victim · Hostage
- Another World
- I Miss My Mom & Dream of Our New Home · Thanks