Kasi Lemmons

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1961-02-24 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Kasi Lemmons

Biography

Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons; February 24, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She made her directorial debut with Eve's Bayou (1997), followed by 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 La...

Acting

1991

1994

Fear of a Black Hat

as Nina Blackburn

1989

1992

Candyman

as Bernadette 'Bernie' Walsh

2006

Waist Deep

as Angry Black Woman

1997

Gridlock'd

as Madonna

1991

1994

Drop Squad

as June Vanderpool

2013

Disconnect

as Roberta Washington

1992

Afterburn

as Carol North

1994

Override

as Clerk

1984

11th Victim

as Hostage

1988

School Daze

as Perry

1993

Hard Target

as Det. Marie Mitchell

1991

Before the Storm

as Alex Robbins

1997

'Til There Was You

as Angenelle

2018

1995

Zooman

as Grace

Production

2007

Talk to Me

as Director

1997

Eve's Bayou

as Writer

1997

Eve's Bayou

as Director

1996

Dr. Hugo

as Director

1996

Dr. Hugo

as Writer

2013

Black Nativity

as Director

2013

2018

Beauty

as Executive Producer

2019

Harriet

as Director

2019

Harriet

as Screenplay

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