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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 24, 1959
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
- Kasey Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
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0.0
The Projectionist
2026
0.0
Self - (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
4.7
Self
One Perfect Shot
2022
6.3
Self
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018
6.6
Self
Half the Picture
2018
6.2
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
7.1
Roberta Washington
Disconnect
2013
6.6
Self
Finding Your Roots
2012
6.5
Angry Black Woman
Waist Deep
2006
8.0
Self
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
2004
Credits
🎬
The Projectionist
2026
0.0
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
One Perfect Shot
as Self
2022
4.7
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
as Self
2018
6.3
Half the Picture
as Self
2018
6.6
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Disconnect
as Roberta Washington
2013
7.1
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
Waist Deep
as Angry Black Woman
2006
6.5
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
as Self
2004
8.0
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Sisters in Cinema
as Self
2003
0.0
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
2002
6.5
'Til There Was You
as Angenelle
1997
3.9
Gridlock'd
as Madonna
1997
6.7
Zooman
as Grace
1995
6.0
Drop Squad
as June Vanderpool
1994
2.8
Override
as Clerk
1994
0.0
ER
as Gamma Knife Tech
1994
7.8
Fear of a Black Hat
as Nina Blackburn
1994
5.9
Hard Target
as Det. Marie Mitchell
1993
6.5
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Diane Warren
1993
6.9
Candyman
as Bernadette Walsh
1992
6.7
Afterburn
as Carol North
1992
3.6
Before the Storm
as Alex Robbins
1991
0.0
The Five Heartbeats
as Cookie
1991
7.3
The Silence of the Lambs
as Ardelia Mapp
1991
8.3
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Melanie Bryant
1990
6.7
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
as Rachel
1990
7.0
Vampire's Kiss
as Jackie
1989
5.9
A Man Called Hawk
1989
6.6
School Daze
as Perry
1988
5.7
The Gift of Amazing Grace
as Subaya
1986
0.0
The Equalizer
as Zandili
1985
7.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Paula Raynor
1984
7.5
The Cosby Show
as Miss McKegney
1984
7.0
11th Victim
as Hostage
1984
2.7
Another World
1964
5.2