Kasi Lemmons

Born: 1959-02-24, 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.

Filmography

• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• The Cosby Show (1984)
• Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)
• Marvel's Luke Cage (2016)
• Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
• Hard Target (1993)
• Candyman (1992)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Vampire's Kiss (1989)
• A Man Called Hawk (1989)
• Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)
• Waist Deep (2006)
• Harriet (2019)
• Disconnect (2013)
• Gridlock'd (1997)
• The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
• Eve's Bayou (1997)
• The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
• The Five Heartbeats (1991)
• Zooman (1995)
• 'Til There Was You (1997)
• Black Nativity (2013)
• Dr. Hugo (1996)
• Drop Squad (1994)
• The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
• Fear of a Black Hat (1994)
• Before the Storm (1991)
• 11th Victim (1984)
• The Gift of Amazing Grace (1986)