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Kasi Lemmons

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Directed credits

9

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Regular directing credits.

TMDB popularity

1.0

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 3All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 51864

IMDb ID: nm0501435

Known for: Acting

Born: February 24, 1959

Age: 67

Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1964 - 2026

Years active: 63

Average TMDB rating: 6.6

Wikidata: Q459933

Also known as

Kasey Lemmons

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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.

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