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Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons

Birthday: 1959-02-24 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1995
Zooman

as    Grace

1994
Override

as    Clerk

1994
Drop Squad

as    June Vanderpool

1994
Fear of a Black Hat

as    Nina Blackburn

1993
Hard Target

as    Det. Marie Mitchell

1992
Candyman

as    Bernadette Walsh

1991
Before the Storm

as    Alex Robbins

1991
The Silence of the Lambs

as    Ardelia Mapp

1990
1989
Vampire's Kiss

as    Jackie