Kasi Lemmons
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 24, 1959, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Movies
- 34
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2026 | The Projectionist | Ramona |
| 2025 | Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Half the Picture | Self |
| 2013 | Disconnect | Roberta Washington |
| 2006 | Waist Deep | Angry Black Woman |
| 2004 | Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos | Self |
| 2003 | Sisters in Cinema | Self |
| 2002 | Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Self |
| 1997 | 'Til There Was You | Angenelle |
| 1997 | Gridlock'd | Madonna |
| 1995 | Zooman | Grace |
| 1994 | Drop Squad | June Vanderpool |
| 1994 | Override | Clerk |
| 1994 | Fear of a Black Hat | Nina Blackburn |
| 1993 | Hard Target | Det. Marie Mitchell |
| 1992 | Candyman | Bernadette Walsh |
| 1992 | Afterburn | Carol North |
| 1991 | Before the Storm | Alex Robbins |
| 1991 | The Five Heartbeats | Cookie |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Ardelia Mapp |
| 1990 | The Great Los Angeles Earthquake | Melanie Bryant |
| 1990 | The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | Rachel |
| 1989 | Vampire's Kiss | Jackie |
| 1988 | School Daze | Perry |
| 1986 | The Gift of Amazing Grace | Subaya |
| 1984 | 11th Victim | Hostage |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2022 | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Director |
| 2021 | Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones | Writer |
| 2019 | Harriet | Director, Screenplay |
| 2013 | Black Nativity | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | Talk to Me | Director |
| 2001 | The Caveman's Valentine | Director |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou | Writer, Director |
| 1996 | Dr. Hugo | Director, Writer |
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