Acting
Kasi Lemmons
TH, EN cinema · 36 credits
Born
24 February 1959 (age 67)
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Also known as Kasey Lemmons
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Projectionist
as Ramona
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Director, Executive Producer
Harriet
Director, Screenplay
Half the Picture
as Self
Beauty
2018
Beauty
Executive Producer
Disconnect
as Roberta Washington
Black Nativity
Director, Writer
Talk to Me
Director
Waist Deep
as Angry Black Woman
Gridlock'd
as Madonna
'Til There Was You
as Angenelle
Eve's Bayou
Writer, Director
Dr. Hugo
Director, Writer
Zooman
as Grace
Fear of a Black Hat
as Nina Blackburn
Drop Squad
as June Vanderpool
Override
as Clerk
Hard Target
as Det. Marie Mitchell
Candyman
as Bernadette Walsh
Afterburn
as Carol North
The Silence of the Lambs
as Ardelia Mapp
The Five Heartbeats
as Cookie
Before the Storm
as Alex Robbins
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Melanie Bryant
Vampire's Kiss
as Jackie
School Daze
as Perry
11th Victim
as Hostage