Kasi Lemmons
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.
38 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 38
ER
1994
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Equalizer
1985
The Cosby Show
1984
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Finding Your Roots
2012
Hard Target
1993
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Another World
1964
Hollywood Black
2024
Candyman
1992
A Man Called Hawk
1989
Vampire's Kiss
1989
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018
Disconnect
2013
One Perfect Shot
2022
Waist Deep
2006
Gridlock'd
1997
'Til There Was You
1997
School Daze
1988
The Five Heartbeats
1991
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
Drop Squad
1994
Zooman
1995
Fear of a Black Hat
1994
Afterburn
1992
The Projectionist
2026
11th Victim
1984
Half the Picture
2018
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
The Gift of Amazing Grace
1986
Override
1994
Before the Storm
1991
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
2004
Sisters in Cinema
2003
Directing · 10
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
Shots Fired
2017
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022
Harriet
2019
Eve's Bayou
1997
Black Nativity
2013
Talk to Me
2007
The Caveman's Valentine
2001
Dr. Hugo
1996