Kasi Lemmons Bio | Wiki
Kasi Lemmons is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She started her career with roles in commercials with McDonald’s and Levis. From there, Kasi moved to the small screen with shows such as 11th Victim in 1979. Later, she moved to the big screen in Spike Lee’s School Daze in 1988. In 1989, Kasi moved to the comedy Vampire’s Kiss.
Film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon described Kasi as “an ongoing testament to the creative possibilities of film.” She adapted Charles Blow’s novel titled Fire Shut Up in My Bones into an opera libretto for the composer Terence Blanchard. Theatre of Saint Louis premiered the film on June 15, 2019, and was scheduled to open the 2021-2022 Metropolitan Opera season as the institution’s first opera by an African-American composer.
Kasi Lemmons Age
She was born on February 24, 1961, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America. Kasi is 61 years old.
Kasi Lemmons Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Kasi stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m).
Kasi Lemmons Parents
She was born to her parents Dorothy Othello (Stallworth) and Milton Francis Lemmons on February 24, 1961, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America. Milton served as a biology teacher while Dorothy was a counselor before she became a psychologist. At the age of 8, Kasi’s parents divorced she moved to Newton, Massachusetts, with her mother and two of her sisters. Dorothy relocated with her daughters to Newton, Massachusetts to pursue her doctorate in education at Harvard University. At the age of 9, Kasi’s mother remarried.
Kasi Lemmons Husband
She married the love of her life called Vondie Curtis-Hall, a professional actor and director. The couple walked down the aisle in 1995. Together, the couple shares four adorable kids. Kasi holds American nationality by birth but belongs to the black ethnic group.
Kasi Lemmons Education
She graduated from a small private high school based in Boston, Mass called Commonwealth School. During the summer, Kasi attended part of New York University’s School of Drama, the Circle in the Square Program where kids who wanted to be professional actors were trained. She attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, UCLA, as well as The New School of Social Research Film Program. In 1998. Kasi earned her Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Salem State College. Currently, Kasi serves as an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
Kasi Lemmons Director | Eve’s Bayou
Her passion for movies came at a very young age. Kasi began her film career as an actress but her goal was to become a director. In 1997, she directed the film called Eve’s Bayou starring Jurnee Smollett, Diahann Carroll, Debbi Morgan, Lynn Whitfield, and Samuel L. Jackson. She had begun writing the film’s screenplay in 1992 as her first screenplay.
Kasi filmed a short film based on a section of the script of Eve’s Bayou, Dr. Hugo, so as to convince studios that she could direct Eve’s Bayou. It was well-received among critics and currently, the film holds an 80% rate of approval on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. the film won Kais an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and also a National Board of Review award for Outstanding Directorial Debut.
In 1997, it became the highest-grossing independent film. In 2001, Kasi directed Jackson again in The Caveman’s Valentine. The following year, she conceived and helmed the tribute to Sidney Poitier for the 74th Annual Academy Award show. Afterward, it was announced that Kasi would direct a supernatural thriller, The Battle of Cloverfield, from her own script for Columbia Pictures.
Kasi Lemmons Production Company
In 2007, Kasi directed a film centered around the tv personality and activist Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. titled Talk to Me. The film was played by Don Cheadle. She won the NAACP Image Awards for the film Talk to Me (2007 film), for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture. Also, the African-American Film Critics Association named Kasi Best Director.
In an interview with FF2 Media’s Jan Lisa Huttner in 2007, Kasi said that Talk to Me film became a film about a time when change was possible and also revolution was possible. She and her team didn’t know what was going to happen since it was a very devastating time and very frightening time.
Kasi Lemmons Candyman | Harriet | Silence Of The Lambs
In 1991, Kasi was cast as Ardelia Mapp in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. Subsequently, Kasi co-starred in the horror film Candyman with Virginia Madsen in 1992. Kasi made her directorial debut with 1997’s Eve’s Bayou, and later Dr. Hugo in 1998, The Caveman’s Valentine in 2001, Talk to Me in 2007, Black Nativity in 2013, as well as her highest-grossing film about abolitionist Harriet Tubman, 2019’s Harriet.
Kasi Lemmons Movies
– 1985 Spenser for Hire
– 1988 The Equalizer
– 1988 Vampire’s Kiss
– 1989 A Man Called Hawk
– 1991 The Silence of the Lambs
– 1991 The Five Heartbeats
– 1992 Candyman
– 1993 Fear of a Black Hat
– 1993 Murder, She Wrote
– 1994 Drop Squad
– 1997 ‘Til There Was You
– 2002 ER
– 2012 Disconnect
Kasi Lemmons Email
Kasi Lemmons Contact
+1 212 998 1875
Kasi Lemmons Net Worth
She has acquired most of her wealth from her acting and directing role. Kasi has an estimated net worth of $2,057,126.
How Old Is Kasi Lemmons
Kasi is a 60-year-old American actress and director who was born on February 24, 1961, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
Who Is Kasi Lemmons
Kasi is a 61-year-old American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She started her career with roles in commercials with McDonald’s and Levis. From there, Kasi moved to the small screen with shows such as 11th Victim in 1979.