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Kasi Lemmons

Highest Rated: 95% The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Lowest Rated: 5% 'Til There Was You (1997)

Birthday: Feb 24, 1961

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

An attractive African-American player of stage, screen and TV who often projects an appealing vulnerability and intelligence, Kasi Lemmons began her professional career playing a hostage in the TV-movie "11th Victim" (1979), directed by Jonathan Kaplan. She then took several years off to study with The Lee Strasberg Institute, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre, NYU, UCLA and famed mime Marcel Marceau. She returned to acting with a supporting role in Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" (1984) Off-Broadway, and a guest spot on the detective series "Spenser: For Hire" (1985). After attending film school at the New School for Social Research in NYC, Lemmons made her entrance into features by writing, directing, shooting and editing the documentary short "Fall From Grace" (1987). The next year, she appeared in two drastically different films: "School Daze," Spike Lee's musical study of black-on-black prejudices; and "Vampire's Kiss," a dark comedy starring Nicolas Cage as a man who may be a vampire.

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 95% The Silence of the Lambs
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84% 89% Eve's Bayou
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83% 87% Fear of a Black Hat
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82% 77% Talk to Me
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70% 75% Disconnect
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63% 54% Vampire's Kiss
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60% 49% Hard Target
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51% 51% Black Nativity
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Kasi Lemmons 4130_D022_00177_RC (l-r.) Actors Henry Hunter Hall and Aria Brooks, Director Kasi Lemmons, actor Cynthia Erivo and behind the camera, A Camera Operator Daniele Massaccesi on the set of HARRIET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Glen Wilson / Focus Features 4130_D021_00044_RC Director Kasi Lemmons on the set of her film HARRIET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Glen Wilson / Focus Features 4130_D002_00012_RC Actors Cynthia Erivo and Joe Alwyn with director Kasi Lemmons on the set of her film HARRIET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Glen Wilson / Focus Features CANDYMAN, Virginia Madsen, Kasi Lemmons, 1992, (c) TriStar FEAR OF A BLACK HAT, Rusty Cundieff, Kasi Lemmons, 1994, (c)Samuel Goldwyn Films DROP SQUAD, Kasi Lemmons, Crystal R. Fox, 1994, (c)Gramercy Pictures 4130_D001_00149-00151_RCC (l-r) Director Kasi Lemmons with actors Zackary Momoh, Cynthia Erivo and Vanessa Bell Calloway on the set of her film HARRIET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Glen Wilson / Focus Features View more photos

Filmography

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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody 43% 92% 2022 Director, Executive Producer Harriet 74% 97% 2019 Director, Screenwriter Black Nativity 51% 51% 2013 Director, Screenwriter Disconnect 70% 75% 2012 Roberta Washington Actor Talk to Me 82% 77% 2007 Director Sisters in Cinema 2003 Self The Caveman's Valentine 46% 51% 2001 Director Eve's Bayou 84% 89% 1997 Director, Writer 'Til There Was You 5% 35% 1997 Angenelle Actor Drop Squad 17% 45% 1994 June Vanderpool Actor Hard Target 60% 49% 1993 Det. Marie Mitchell Actor Fear of a Black Hat 83% 87% 1993 Nina Blackburn Actor Candyman 79% 63% 1992 Bernadette 'Bernie' Walsh Actor The Silence of the Lambs 95% 95% 1991 Ardelia Mapp Actor The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson 71% 1990 Rachel Actor Vampire's Kiss 63% 54% 1989 Jackie Actor
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