Kasi Lemmons
Actor
Born February 24, 1959 in 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".
Filmography
I Miss My Mom & Dream of Our New Home
The Projectionist
Ramona
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Hollywood Black
Self
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
One Perfect Shot
Self
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'
Self
Half the Picture
Self
Shots Fired
Marvel's Luke Cage
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Black Nativity
Disconnect
Roberta Washington
Finding Your Roots
Self
Talk to Me
Waist Deep
Angry Black Woman
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Self
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
The Caveman's Valentine
Eve's Bayou
'Til There Was You
Angenelle
Gridlock'd
Madonna
Dr. Hugo
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