Kasi Lemmons

Known for ActingBorn 1959-02-24 (age 67)St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Before the Storm

The Silence of the Lambs

Override

ER

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

Harriet

Murder, She Wrote

Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos

The Five Heartbeats

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Disconnect

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Marvel's Luke Cage

Sisters in Cinema

The Equalizer

Walker, Texas Ranger

Talk to Me

A Man Called Hawk

The Cosby Show

Half the Picture

Candyman

Gridlock'd

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Finding Your Roots

Waist Deep

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

Hard Target

Eve's Bayou

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Zooman

Fear of a Black Hat

Shots Fired

Vampire's Kiss

The Caveman's Valentine

School Daze

Black Nativity

Another World

One Perfect Shot

Afterburn

Dr. Hugo

'Til There Was You

Hollywood Black

11th Victim

Drop Squad

The Projectionist

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones