Kasi Lemmons

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kasi Lemmons
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1961(1961-02-24)
Age	63
Birthplace	St. Louis
Country	United States
Birth City	Missouri
Horoscope	Aquarius

Kasi Lemmons Biography

Kasi Lemmons is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on February 24, 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Kasi Lemmons (/”‘ k eI S i born Karen Lemmons; February 24 1961) is an American film actress and director.

in 1997. Lemmons produced the movie Eve’s Bayou starring Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Diahann Carroll along with Jurnee Smollett. Lemmons began writing her screenplay Eve’s Bayou in 1992. It is the very first script she wrote by herself. In order to convince studios that she was capable of directing Eve’s Bayou and film it, she made Dr. Hugo, a short film that was based on one of the scripts for Eve’s Bayou. The film was well-loved by the critics (currently having an 88% rate of approbation on review aggregater site Rotten Tomatoes) as well as earned the Lemmons an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature as well as an National Board of Review award for Outstanding Directorial debut. The film was also the most-successful independent feature in 1997.

In 2001 she directed Jackson again in The Caveman’s Valentine about a schizophrenic homeless man trying to solve a murder mystery. In 2002 Lemmons conceived and helmed the tribute to Sidney Poitier for the 74th Annual Academy Award show. Shortly afterwards it was announced that Lemmons would direct The Battle of Cloverfield, a supernatural thriller, from her own script for Columbia Pictures.

In 2007, she directed Talk to Me that was centered around the television personality and activist Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. that was played by Don Cheadle. For the film Talk to Me (2007 film), Lemmons received the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture and was named as Best Director by the African-American Film Critics Association. In a 2007 interview with Jan Lisa Huttner, Lemmons said Talk to Me “became a film about a time when change was possible and even revolution was possible. We didn’t know what was going to happen. It was a very devastating time and a very frightening time, but it was alive. It was alive.”

Lemmons is married to director and actor Vondie Curtis-Hall, since 1995. The couple has four kids.

Kasi Lemmons Net Worth

Kasi Lemmons is one of the richest Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kasi Lemmons 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 1979 was the time that Lemmons began her career as an actor in the TV movie the 11th Victim (1979). She was a part of the Boston Children’s Theater and later studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts however she transferred to UCLA to pursue a major in historical studies. Then she removed herself from UCLA and joined the program for film at New School for Social Research. In her early years she was offered her first part on TV in the local soap opera You Got a Right, an action drama that centered around courtrooms. She was the first and only black girl who was admitted into an all-white institution. The credits she has earned for her acting include part on shows like As the World Turns Murder, She Wrote, The Cosby Show or ER and films like Spike Lee’s School Daze (1988), Vampire’s Kiss (1988), the Academy Award winner for Best Picture The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Candyman (1992), Hard Target (1993), Fear of a Black Hat (1993) Gridlock’d (1997) and “Until there was You (1997).

Her career began as a commercial actress with McDonald’s and Levis before moving to small screen films like 11th Victim (1979) and later moved to the larger screen with Spike Lee’s School Daze (1988), which was followed by the comedic Vampire’s Kiss (1989), before she was chosen to play Ardelia Mapp for Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Later, she co-starred with Virginia Madsen in the horror film Candyman (1992).

Lemmons made her directorial debut with 1997’s Eve’s Bayou, followed by Dr. Hugo (1998), The Caveman’s Valentine (2001), Talk to Me (2007), Black Nativity (2013), and her highest-grossing film, 2019’s Harriet, about abolitionist Harriet Tubman. She was described by film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon as “an ongoing testament to the creative possibilities of film.”

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Who is Kasi Lemmons Dating?

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Lemmons went to Commonwealth School, a small private high school in Boston, Mass. In the summer, she attended the Circle in the Square Program, a program where kids who wanted to be professional actors trained, which was part of New York University’s School of Drama. This gave her access to many professional actors’ studios such as Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler.

Facts & Trivia

Kasi Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kasi Lemmons celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.

Is Kasi Lemmons black?

Personal life. Lemmons has been married to actor and director Vondie Curtis- Hall since 1995. The couple have four children. Lemmons says she is primarily an artist: “I don’t wake up every day saying I’m a black woman because it’s too given, but I wake up every day feeling like an artist and I feel I’m an artist”.

What did Kasi Lemmons direct?

Films directed

How old is Kasi Lemmons?

61 years (February 24, 1961)

Who is Kasi Lemmons husband?

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Is bigger long a real person?

One such example is the fictional bounty hunter named Bigger Long, played by Omar Dorsey. Although the character is fictional, the name nevertheless alludes to male sexuality, the fear of which, in particular, has been a core reason for the subjugation of Black American males.