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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".
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The roles that explain the career.
25 credits across 3 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Hollywood Black | Self | TV |
| 2022 | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Director | Film |
| 2019 | Harriet | Director | Film |
| 2013 | Disconnect | Roberta Washington | Film |
| 2013 | Black Nativity | Director | Film |
| 2013 | Black Nativity | Writer | Film |
| 2006 | Waist Deep | Angry Black Woman | Film |
| 2004 | Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos | Self | Film |
| 2001 | The Caveman's Valentine | Director | Film |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou | Director | Film |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou | Writer | Film |
| 1996 | Dr. Hugo | Director | Film |
| 1996 | Dr. Hugo | Writer | Film |
| 1994 | Fear of a Black Hat | Nina Blackburn | Film |
| 1994 | Drop Squad | June Vanderpool | Film |
| 1993 | Hard Target | Det. Marie Mitchell | Film |
| 1992 | Afterburn | Carol North | Film |
| 1992 | Candyman | Bernadette Walsh | Film |
| 1991 | The Five Heartbeats | Cookie | Film |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Ardelia Mapp | Film |
| 1990 | The Great Los Angeles Earthquake | Melanie Bryant | Film |
| 1989 | Vampire's Kiss | Jackie | Film |
| 1988 | School Daze | Perry | Film |
| 1986 | The Gift of Amazing Grace | Subaya | Film |
| 1984 | 11th Victim | Hostage | Film |
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