Acting
Kasi Lemmons
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 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.
Also known as
Kasey Lemmons
Photos
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Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
38
Acting credits
10
Directing
5
Writing
3
Other crew
Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
- 1
★ 8.3The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · movie · as Ardelia Mapp
- 2
★ 7.8ER
1994 · tv · as Gamma Knife Tech
- 3
★ 7.5Murder, She Wrote
1984 · tv · as Paula Raynor
- 4
★ 7.5Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020 · tv · Executive Producer
- 5
★ 7.3Harriet
2019 · movie · Director
- 6
★ 7.1Disconnect
2013 · movie · as Roberta Washington
- 7
★ 7.0Walker, Texas Ranger
1993 · tv · as Diane Warren
- 8
★ 7.0Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022 · movie · Director
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
