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Kasi Lemmons
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
The Projectionist
Movie Ramona
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2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie Self - (archive footage)
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self
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2022
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Movie Director
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2022
One Perfect Shot
TV show Self
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2021
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Movie Writer
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2020
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
TV show Director
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2019
Harriet
Movie Director
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2018
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
TV show Self
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2018
Beauty
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Half the Picture
Movie Self
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2017
Shots Fired
TV show Director
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2016
Marvel's Luke Cage
TV show Director
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2013
Black Nativity
Movie Director
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2013
Disconnect
Movie Roberta Washington
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2012
Finding Your Roots
TV show Self
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2007
Talk to Me
Movie Director
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2006
Waist Deep
Movie Angry Black Woman
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2004
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Movie Self
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2003
Sisters in Cinema
Movie Self
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2002
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie Self
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2001
The Caveman's Valentine
Movie Director
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1997
Eve's Bayou
Movie Writer
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1997
'Til There Was You
Movie Angenelle
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1997
Gridlock'd
Movie Madonna
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1996
Dr. Hugo
Movie Writer
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1995
Zooman
Movie Grace
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1994
Drop Squad
Movie June Vanderpool
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1994
Override
Movie Clerk
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1994
ER
TV show Gamma Knife Tech
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1994
Fear of a Black Hat
Movie Nina Blackburn
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1993
Hard Target
Movie Det. Marie Mitchell
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1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV show Diane Warren
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1992
Candyman
Movie Bernadette Walsh
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1992
Afterburn
Movie Carol North
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1991
Before the Storm
Movie Alex Robbins
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1991
The Five Heartbeats
Movie Cookie
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1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Movie Ardelia Mapp
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1990
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Movie Melanie Bryant
