Kasi Lemmons

Acting · Born 1959-02-24 in 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…

Filmography

• The Silence of the Lambs as Ardelia Mapp
• Disconnect as Roberta Washington
• Fear of a Black Hat as Nina Blackburn
• Vampire's Kiss as Jackie
• Candyman as Bernadette Walsh
• Waist Deep as Angry Black Woman
• Gridlock'd as Madonna
• The Five Heartbeats as Cookie
• The Great Los Angeles Earthquake as Melanie Bryant
• Drop Squad as June Vanderpool

TV

• ER as Gamma Knife Tech
• Murder, She Wrote as Paula Raynor
• A Man Called Hawk
• The Cosby Show as Miss McKegney
• Walker, Texas Ranger as Diane Warren
• Finding Your Roots as Self
• The Equalizer as Zandili
• Another World
• One Perfect Shot as Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self