Kasi Lemmons
Acting
1959-02-24 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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
The Projectionist
2026 · Movie
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025 · Movie
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022 · Movie
One Perfect Shot
2022 · Series
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
2021 · Movie
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020 · Series
Harriet
2019 · Movie
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018 · Series
Beauty
2018 · Movie
Half the Picture
2018 · Movie
Shots Fired
2017 · Series
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016 · Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
Black Nativity
2013 · Movie
Disconnect
2013 · Movie
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Series
Talk to Me
2007 · Movie
Waist Deep
2006 · Movie
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
2004 · Movie
Sisters in Cinema
2003 · Movie
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002 · Movie
The Caveman's Valentine
2001 · Movie
Eve's Bayou
1997 · Movie
'Til There Was You
1997 · Movie
Gridlock'd
1997 · Movie
Dr. Hugo
1996 · Movie
Zooman
1995 · Movie
Drop Squad
1994 · Movie
Override
1994 · Movie
ER
1994 · Series
Fear of a Black Hat
1994 · Movie
Hard Target
1993 · Movie
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993 · Series
Candyman
1992 · Movie
Afterburn
1992 · Movie
Before the Storm
1991 · Movie
The Five Heartbeats
1991 · Movie
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Movie
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990 · Movie
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990 · Movie
Vampire's Kiss
1989 · Movie
A Man Called Hawk
1989 · Series
School Daze
1988 · Movie
The Gift of Amazing Grace
1986 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series
11th Victim
1984 · Movie
Another World
1964 · Series
I Miss My Mom & Dream of Our New Home
Movie