Kasi Lemmons
Acting
Born: 1959-02-24 in 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
Murder, She Wrote
Paula Raynor
ER
Gamma Knife Tech
The Cosby Show
Miss McKegney
Walker, Texas Ranger
Diane Warren
The Equalizer
Zandili
Finding Your Roots
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Hard Target
Det. Marie Mitchell
Candyman
Bernadette Walsh
The Silence of the Lambs
Ardelia Mapp
Hollywood Black
Self
Waist Deep
Angry Black Woman
Vampire's Kiss
Jackie
Disconnect
Roberta Washington
Gridlock'd
Madonna
A Man Called Hawk
Another World
The Projectionist
Ramona
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Melanie Bryant
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
School Daze
Perry
Afterburn
Carol North
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Self
The Five Heartbeats
Cookie
One Perfect Shot
Self
Zooman
Grace
'Til There Was You
Angenelle
Drop Squad
June Vanderpool
Half the Picture
Self
Fear of a Black Hat
Nina Blackburn
Before the Storm
Alex Robbins
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Rachel
11th Victim
Hostage
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
Override
Clerk
The Gift of Amazing Grace
Subaya
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Self