Kasi Lemmons
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 24, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
The Projectionist
Movie · as Ramona
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Black
TV · as Self · 4 eps
One Perfect Shot
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Half the Picture
Movie · as Self
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Disconnect
Movie · as Roberta Washington
Finding Your Roots
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Waist Deep
Movie · as Angry Black Woman
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Movie · as Self
Sisters in Cinema
Movie · as Self
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie · as Self
Gridlock'd
Movie · as Madonna
'Til There Was You
Movie · as Angenelle
Zooman
Movie · as Grace
Fear of a Black Hat
Movie · as Nina Blackburn
Drop Squad
Movie · as June Vanderpool
Override
Movie · as Clerk
ER
TV · as Gamma Knife Tech · 1 ep
Hard Target
Movie · as Det. Marie Mitchell
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV · as Diane Warren · 1 ep
Candyman
Movie · as Bernadette Walsh
Afterburn
Movie · as Carol North
The Silence of the Lambs
Movie · as Ardelia Mapp
The Five Heartbeats
Movie · as Cookie
Before the Storm
Movie · as Alex Robbins
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Movie · as Melanie Bryant
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Movie · as Rachel
Vampire's Kiss
Movie · as Jackie
A Man Called Hawk
TV · 1 ep
School Daze
Movie · as Perry
The Gift of Amazing Grace
Movie · as Subaya
The Equalizer
TV · as Zandili · 1 ep
11th Victim
Movie · as Hostage
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Paula Raynor · 1 ep
The Cosby Show
TV · as Miss McKegney · 1 ep
Another World
TV · 257 eps