
Acting
Born February 24, 1959 · 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.

The Projectionist
2026

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025

Half the Picture
2018

Disconnect
2013

Waist Deep
2006

Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
2004
Sisters in Cinema
2003

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002

'Til There Was You
1997

Gridlock'd
1997

Zooman
1995

Drop Squad
1994

Override
1994

Fear of a Black Hat
1994

Hard Target
1993

Candyman
1992

Afterburn
1992

Before the Storm
1991

The Five Heartbeats
1991

The Silence of the Lambs
1991

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990

Vampire's Kiss
1989

School Daze
1988

The Gift of Amazing Grace
1986

11th Victim
1984