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Kasi Lemmons

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.

February 24, 1959 (67 years old) St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Trailer for Whitney Houston Biopic ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’

Trailer for Whitney Houston Biopic ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’

Biopics are still big business in Hollywood, and it’s not tough to see why – there’s the built-in fanbase of audiences e...

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Mother's Day Directors: How Pregnancy Inspired These Ten Filmmakers

As women make strides in the industry, the normalization of parenthood - and particularly motherhood - as a positive par...

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