Kasi Lemmons
Born February 24, 1959 (Age: 67)
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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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kasi Lemmons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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.
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Filmography
Disconnect
2013
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as Roberta Washington
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Age: 54
Waist Deep
2006
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as Angry Black Woman
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Age: 47
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
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as Self
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Age: 43
'Til There Was You
1997
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as Angenelle
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Age: 38
Gridlock'd
1997
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as Madonna
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Age: 37
Drop Squad
1994
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as June Vanderpool
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Age: 35
Fear of a Black Hat
1994
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as Nina Blackburn
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Age: 35
Hard Target
1993
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as Det. Marie Mitchell
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Age: 34
Candyman
1992
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as Bernadette Walsh
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Age: 33
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
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as Ardelia Mapp
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Age: 31
Vampire's Kiss
1989
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as Jackie
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Age: 30
The Gift of Amazing Grace
1986
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as Subaya
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Age: 27