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Kasi Lemmons

Feb 24, 1961 (64 years old) in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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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The Equalizer
Zandili
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Murder, She Wrote
Paula Raynor
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The Cosby Show
Miss McKegney
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Walker, Texas Ranger
Diane Warren
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Gamma Knife Tech
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Finding Your Roots
Self
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Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
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A Man Called Hawk
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Another World
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Hard Target
Det. Marie Mitchell

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