Kasi Lemmons
Acting
- Born:
- 1959-02-24
- Place of birth:
- 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
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Hollywood Black
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
One Perfect Shot
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Harriet
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
Beauty
Half the Picture
Shots Fired
Marvel's Luke Cage
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Black Nativity
Disconnect
Finding Your Roots
Talk to Me
Waist Deep
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Sisters in Cinema
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
The Caveman's Valentine
Eve's Bayou
'Til There Was You
Gridlock'd
Dr. Hugo
Zooman
Drop Squad
Override
ER
Fear of a Black Hat
Hard Target
Walker, Texas Ranger
Candyman
Afterburn
Before the Storm
The Five Heartbeats
The Silence of the Lambs
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Vampire's Kiss
A Man Called Hawk
School Daze
The Gift of Amazing Grace
The Equalizer
Murder, She Wrote
The Cosby Show
11th Victim
Another World
I Miss My Mom & Dream of Our New Home