Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1959-02-24 (Age: 67)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Kasi Lemmons
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 (26)
The Projectionist
2026
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Half the Picture
2018
Disconnect
2013
Waist Deep
2006
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
2004Sisters in Cinema
2003
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
'Til There Was You
1997
Gridlock'd
1997
Zooman
1995
Drop Squad
1994
Override
1994
Fear of a Black Hat
1994
