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".
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Full filmography
- ER (1994) as Gamma Knife Tech
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Paula Raynor
- The Cosby Show (1984) as Miss McKegney
- Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) as Diane Warren
- The Equalizer (1985) as Zandili
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015) as Self
- Finding Your Roots (2012) as Self
- Hard Target (1993) as Det. Marie Mitchell
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Ardelia Mapp
- Another World (1964)
- Candyman (1992) as Bernadette Walsh
- Hollywood Black (2024) as Self
- A Man Called Hawk (1989)
- Disconnect (2013) as Roberta Washington
- Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' (2018) as Self
- Waist Deep (2006) as Angry Black Woman
- Vampire's Kiss (1989) as Jackie
- Gridlock'd (1997) as Madonna
- School Daze (1988) as Perry
- One Perfect Shot (2022) as Self
- The Five Heartbeats (1991) as Cookie
- 'Til There Was You (1997) as Angenelle
- Zooman (1995) as Grace
- The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) as Melanie Bryant