1. Kasi Lemmons

    Kasi Lemmons

    American actress and director

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  1. As a young child, she got her first role on TV on a local soap opera called You Got a Right, a courtroom drama. She played the first and only black girl who integrated to an all-white school. [10] .

  2. Kasi Lemmons was born on 24 February 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Harriet (2019), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Candyman (1992). She has been married to Vondie Curtis-Hall since 19 August 1995.

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    • St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  3. Kasi Lemmons was born on February 24, 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Harriet (2019), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Candyman (1992). She has been married to Vondie Curtis-Hall since August 19, 1995. They have two children.

    • February 24, 1961
  4. Feb 10, 2023 · An incredibly impressive writer-director debut for Lemmons, the film is also lauded for being a rare coming-of-age tale about a young Black girl and its honest portrayal of Black life.

    • Alamin Yohannes
    • 21 min
  5. Mar 10, 2016 · Kasi Lemmons is known for her writing and directing debut, Eves Bayou (1997, above), which was the highest-grossing indie film of the year. But her passion for film came at an early age, Lemmons was a child actor, and she said she knew even then becoming a director was her goal.

  6. Oct 30, 2019 · Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” is a bold and accomplished exception: this bio-pic of Harriet Tubman develops her actions as a freer of enslaved people with ardent and detailed attention to the...

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  8. 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).

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