Kasi Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons; February 24, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She made her directorial debut with Eve's Bayou (1997), followed by 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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.212 |
| Birthday | 1961-02-24 |
| Place of Birth | St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Also Known As | Kasey Lemmons, |
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
8.347/16251
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...
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The Silence of the Lambs
1994
Fear of a Black Hat
6/41
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button i...
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Fear of a Black Hat
1988
Vampire's Kiss
5.9/400
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to c...
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Vampire's Kiss
1992
Candyman
6.6/1592
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
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Candyman
2006
Waist Deep
6.5/253
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
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Waist Deep
1997
Gridlock'd
6.6/213
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha...
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Gridlock'd
1991
The Five Heartbeats
7.3/65
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky...
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The Five Heartbeats
1990
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
6.7/18
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaite...
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1994
Drop Squad
2.8/8
Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spi...
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Drop Squad
2013
Disconnect
7.1/1109
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a mean...
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Disconnect
1992
Afterburn
4.5/5
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in t...
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Afterburn
1994
Override
0/0
Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover and starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Emily Lloyd....
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Override
1984
11th Victim
2/1
A news anchorwoman from the Midwest comes to Hollywood to learn the truth about the death of her sister, the 11th victim of a killer preying on aspiri...
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11th Victim
1988
School Daze
5.9/96
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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School Daze
1993
Hard Target
6.4/1185
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealt...
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Hard Target
1986
The Gift Of Amazing Grace
0/0
Teenage girl is frustrated about her lack of singing ability in her gospel singing family. She writes a song about her problem, and soon finds where h...
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The Gift Of Amazing Grace
1990
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
8/2
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1991
Before the Storm
0/0
A follow up to Under Cover aka The Company (1991). Linda Purl is again Kate Del'Amico, National Intelligence Agent who travels to Kuwait in 1990 to in...
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Before the Storm
1997
Til There Was You
3.9/31
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
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Til There Was You
2003
Sisters in Cinema
0/0
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
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Sisters in Cinema
2018
Half the Picture
5.9/11
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.
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Half the Picture
2002
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
6.5/2
Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts o...
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2004
Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
8/1
Retrospective documentary featuring director Bernard Rose, writer Clive Barker, producer Alan Poul and stars Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen and Kasi Lemmo...
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Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
1995
Zooman
6/3
Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though doze...
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