Kasi Lemmons

Biography: Blonde-dreadlocked actress and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons was born in Missouri but raised in Massachusetts after her parents divorced. She performed in Boston Children's Theatre as a kid before studying at N.Y.U. and U.C.L.A. Starting at the tender age of 18, she acted professionally throughout the '80s in television and films, including a small role in Spike Lee's School Daze. With an interest in making documentaries, she went to film school at the New School for Social Research in N.Y.C. and made her first film, Fall From Grace, a short documentary about homelessness. Though she continued to develop her writing, she kept acting in order to pay the bills with supporting roles in The Silence of the Lambs, Candyman, Hard Target, and Fear of a Black Hat. Frustrated with her acting career and the lack of good roles for black women in Hollywood, she went to work on her screenplay for Eve's Bayou, a Southern Gothic drama about a girl growing up in Louisiana. In 1997, she appeared inBlonde-dreadlocked actress and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons was born in Missouri but raised in Massachusetts after her parents divorced. She performed in Boston Children's Theatre as a kid before studying at N.Y.U. and U.C.L.A. Starting at the tender age of 18, she acted professionally throughout the '80s in television and films, including a small role in Spike Lee's School Daze. With an interest in making documentaries, she went to film school at the New School for Social Research in N.Y.C. and made her first film, Fall From Grace, a short documentary about homelessness. Though she continued to develop her writing, she kept acting in order to pay the bills with supporting roles in The Silence of the Lambs, Candyman, Hard Target, and Fear of a Black Hat. Frustrated with her acting career and the lack of good roles for black women in Hollywood, she went to work on her screenplay for Eve's Bayou, a Southern Gothic drama about a girl growing up in Louisiana. In 1997, she appeared in Gridlock'd, the debut feature film by her husband, actor/director Vondie Curtis-Hall. That same year she became pregnant with her first child and made the short film Dr. Hugo -- based on a segment of her script and starring her husband in the lead role -- in order to convince the studios that she could direct Eve's Bayou herself. By the time shooting began, her son Henry Hunter Hall was just three months old. With Samuel L. Jackson as co-producer, Eve's Bayou was a critical success, winning Lemmons an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. In 2001, she teamed with Samuel L. Jackson again for the psychological thriller The Caveman's Valentine, adapted from a novel by George Dawes Green. Expand

Kasi Lemmons' Scores

Average career score: 60
Highest Metascore: 66 Shots Fired: Season 1
Lowest Metascore: 53 Spenser: For Hire: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Negative: 0 out of 2
2 tv reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
66 Shots Fired: Season 1 Mar 22, 2017 Director 4.4
tbd ER: Season 8 Sep 27, 2001 Chemo Tech 8.4
tbd Another World: Season 36 May 4, 1999 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd Another World: Season 35 May 4, 1998 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd Another World: Season 34 Jul 10, 1997 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 2 Sep 25, 1993 Actor 5.5
tbd Murder, She Wrote: Season 9 Sep 20, 1992 Actor tbd
tbd Another World: Season 27 Oct 29, 1990 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd The Equalizer: Season 4 Oct 26, 1988 Actor / Kasi Lemmons tbd
tbd The Cosby Show: Season 5 Oct 6, 1988 Miss McKegney tbd
tbd Another World: Season 24 Jun 30, 1987 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
53 Spenser: For Hire: Season 1 Sep 20, 1985 Lydia tbd
tbd Another World: Season 6 Jun 30, 1969 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd Another World: Season 5 Jan 2, 1968 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd Another World: Season 4 Jun 21, 1967 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd
tbd Another World: Season 3 May 9, 1966 Tess Parker (1989 - 1990) tbd

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