Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons

Director & Actor (b. 1959)
6
Movies
68.2%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Frequent Collaborators

Clarke Peters (2)Jodie Foster (1)Anthony Hopkins (1)Scott Glenn (1)Ted Levine (1)
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The ThumbScore for Kasi Lemmons (68.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 6 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Kasi's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Kasi Lemmons (/ˈkeɪsi/; born Karen Diane Lemmons, February 24, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She made her directorial debut with Eve's Bayou (1997), followed by The Caveman's Valentine (2001), 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). Film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon described her as "an ongoing testament to the creative possibilities of film". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kasi Lemmons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1959-02-24 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

On ThumbScore, Kasi Lemmons appears in 6 films with an average audience score of 68.2%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Filmography & Ratings

The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
👍 91%
Hard Target
Hard Target
1993
👍 78%
Harriet
Harriet
2019
👍 78%
Candyman
Candyman
1992
👍 77%
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022
👍 59%
Vampire's Kiss
Vampire's Kiss
1989
👍 59%
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