Kasi Lemmons
Known For
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.
Most Known For
ER
as Gamma Knife Tech
Murder, She Wrote
as Paula Raynor
The Cosby Show
as Miss McKegney
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Diane Warren
The Equalizer
as Zandili
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Finding Your Roots
as Self
Candyman
as Bernadette Walsh
Hard Target
as Det. Marie Mitchell
Disconnect
as Roberta Washington
Another World
Zooman
as Grace
The Silence of the Lambs
as Ardelia Mapp
Vampire's Kiss
as Jackie
Afterburn
as Carol North
One Perfect Shot
as Self
Gridlock'd
as Madonna
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
as Self
A Man Called Hawk
Waist Deep
as Angry Black Woman