Kasi Lemmons
Also Known As: Kasey Lemmons
Biography: 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kasi Lemmons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Birthday: February 24, 1961
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Gender: Female
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The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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Fear of a Black Hat
Overview: Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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Vampire's Kiss
Overview: 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 come to terms with his affliction.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Candyman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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Waist Deep
Overview: An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Gridlock'd
Overview: 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 hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-29
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The Five Heartbeats
Overview: 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 start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Overview: 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 awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-11
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Drop Squad
Overview: Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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Disconnect
Overview: 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 means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-12
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Afterburn
Overview: 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 the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to offer. After much digging, Janet Harduvel discovers a joint military and General Dynamic cover-up. She proves to be unwavering in her search for the truth to clear his name.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-30
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Override
Overview: 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. It is based on the Nebula- and Hugo-nominated short story, Over the Long Haul, by Martha Soukup.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-16
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11th Victim
Overview: 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 aspiring actresses, and finds herself possibly the next one on his list despite the help of an overworked cop.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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School Daze
Overview: Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Hard Target
Overview: 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 wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-27
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The Gift Of Amazing Grace
Overview: 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 her musical talent lies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-19
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Overview: A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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Before the Storm
Overview: 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 investigate the possibility of an Iraqi invasion. When it is discovered that the Iraqi's plan to launch a missile of chemical warfare, the Agency must sacrifice trainee Sam Hamadi (Jesse Borrego) in order for the missile site to be pinpointed.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-13
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'Til There Was You
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Sisters in Cinema
Overview: Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-01
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Half the Picture
Overview: At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-23
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Overview: Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts on Bravo Television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-28
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Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
Overview: Retrospective documentary featuring director Bernard Rose, writer Clive Barker, producer Alan Poul and stars Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen and Kasi Lemmons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Zooman
Overview: 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 dozens of neighbors saw the unintentional shooting, no one is willing to come forward with information. Life goes on, a killer goes free, and one grieving, broken father (Louis Gossett Jr.) is forced to take his cry for justice to the media, hoping to spark a confrontation with his daughter's murderer. Charles Dutton and CCH Pounder costar in this powerful original drama.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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