Name
Kasi Lemmons
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1959-02-24 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
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".
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- 1991 The Silence of the Lambs as Ardelia Mapp
- 1994 Fear of a Black Hat as Nina Blackburn
- 1989 Vampire's Kiss as Jackie
- 1992 Candyman as Bernadette Walsh
- 2006 Waist Deep as Angry Black Woman
- 1997 Gridlock'd as Madonna
- 1991 The Five Heartbeats as Cookie
- 1990 The Great Los Angeles Earthquake as Melanie Bryant
- 1994 Drop Squad as June Vanderpool
- 2013 Disconnect as Roberta Washington
- 1992 Afterburn as Carol North
- 1994 Override as Clerk
- 1984 11th Victim as Hostage
- 1988 School Daze as Perry
- 1993 Hard Target as Det. Marie Mitchell
- 1986 The Gift of Amazing Grace as Subaya
- 1990 The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson as Rachel
- 1991 Before the Storm as Alex Robbins
- 1997 'Til There Was You as Angenelle
- 2003 Sisters in Cinema as Self
- 2018 Half the Picture as Self
- 2002 Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 2004 Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos as Self
- 1995 Zooman as Grace
- 2026 The Projectionist as Ramona
- 2025 Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Paula Raynor
- 1989 A Man Called Hawk ( 1 episode )
- 1984 The Cosby Show ( 1 episode ) as Miss McKegney
- 1993 Walker, Texas Ranger ( 1 episode ) as Diane Warren
- 2012 Finding Your Roots ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1985 The Equalizer ( 1 episode ) as Zandili
- 1964 Another World ( 257 episodes )
- 1994 ER ( 1 episode ) as Gamma Knife Tech
- 2022 One Perfect Shot ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2024 Hollywood Black ( 4 episodes ) as Self
