Kasi Lemmons
ActingAlso Known As
Kasey 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.
Movies
(26 total)
The Silence of the Lambs
as Ardelia Mapp
Candyman
as Bernadette Walsh
Hard Target
as Det. Marie Mitchell
Disconnect
as Roberta Washington
Vampire's Kiss
as Jackie
Waist Deep
as Angry Black Woman
Gridlock'd
as Madonna
School Daze
as Perry
The Five Heartbeats
as Cookie
Fear of a Black Hat
as Nina Blackburn
'Til There Was You
as Angenelle
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Melanie Bryant
Half the Picture
as Self
Drop Squad
as June Vanderpool
Afterburn
as Carol North
11th Victim
as Hostage
Zooman
as Grace
TV Shows
(11 total)
ER
as Gamma Knife Tech
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Diane Warren
The Cosby Show
as Miss McKegney
Murder, She Wrote
as Paula Raynor
The Equalizer
as Zandili
Finding Your Roots
as Self
One Perfect Shot
as Self
